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US 7,191,642 B2Granted
Method, apparatus and system for measuring brake force
OwnerCraig A. Paulsen, Phil L. Perryinventors
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A brake force measurement system comprises at least one sensor configured to generate an output indicative of a force applied by to a first braking member associated with a rotatable wheel of a vehicle by a second braking member. The second braking member may be an actual brake pad or a substitute pad plate or member. In one embodiment, the sensor is a load cell configured to measure force applied by the pad or substitute pad member to a rotor of a brake mechanism associated with each wheel of the vehicle. In one embodiment, the sensor output is input to a processing unit configured to display brake force information in human-readable form, such as by an alpha-numeric display displaying brake force at each wheel in various units of measure or percentage of brake force at one or more wheels.
A vehicle braking mechanism comprising:
The vehicle braking mechanism in accordance with claim I wherein said at least one sensor includes means for transmitting said output to a remote location.
A braking force measurement system for a vehicle having one or more rotatable wheel comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.