Brake lining wear indicator
OwnerRobert Emmett, Wilfried Straussinventors
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Abstract
A brake lining wear indicator includes a connection for an external wear sensor, a power source for powering the wear sensor, an electronic processing device that is connected to a connection and a first and second display device connected to the electronic processing device, wherein the first display device has a continuous wear indicator for at least one brake lining and the second display device has at least one function display for the brake.
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A brake pad wear indicator device having a connection for coupling the device to an external wear sensor associated with brake pads of vehicle brakes, a power source for supplying power to the device and primary and secondary display devices operative to indicate wear of the pads, wherein said primary display device is operative to provide continuous display for indicating a wear condition for one inner brake pad and one outer brake pad and providing a continuous differentiation wear display showing the difference in wear between the inner and outer pad;
- and where the secondary display device is operative to display at least one functionality display for the vehicle brakes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.