# US 9,004,245 B2 · Hydraulic brake system

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- Number: US 9,004,245 B2
- Document ID: US9004245B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/891,202
- Filed: 2013-05-10
- Published: 2013-09-19
- Granted: 2015-04-14
- Earliest claimed: 2010-10-19
- Assignees: Ashima Ltd.
- Applicants: Wayne-Ian Moore
- Inventors: Wayne-Ian Moore
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9004245B2

## CPC

- B62L 3/023: {acting on fluid pressure systems}
- B60T 11/16: Master control, e.g. master cylinders (master cylinders associated with vacuum boosters B60T13/565)
- B60T 17/04: Arrangements of piping, valves in the piping, e.g. cut-off valves, couplings or air hoses (traction couplings involving joints for supply lines, electric circuits, or the like B60D1/62; couplings peculiar to railway vehicles for, or combined with, couplings or connectors for fluid conduits or electric cables B61G5/06; pipes, cut-off valves, couplings, air hoses per se F16C, F16K, F16L)
- B60T 17/043: {Brake line couplings, air hoses and stopcocks}
- B62K 21/12: Handlebars; Handlebar stems
- B62K 25/12: with rocking arm pivoted on each fork leg (in combination with telescopic fork B62K25/06)
- B62J 11/13: specially adapted for mechanical cables
- Y10T 74/20402: Flexible transmitter [e.g., Bowden cable]
- B62L: BRAKES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES {(arrangements in cycles for adjusting wheel-braking force to meet varying vehicular or ground-surface conditions B60T8/00)}
- B60T: VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL (electrodynamic brake systems for vehicle, in general B60L; brakes per se, i.e. devices where braking effect occurs, including ultimate brake actuators, F16D); ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES
- B62K: CYCLES; CYCLE FRAMES; CYCLE STEERING DEVICES; RIDER-OPERATED TERMINAL CONTROLS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CYCLES; CYCLE AXLE SUSPENSIONS; CYCLE SIDECARS, FORECARS, OR THE LIKE
- B62J: CYCLE SADDLES OR SEATS; AUXILIARY DEVICES OR ACCESSORIES SPECIALLY ADAPTED TO CYCLES AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. ARTICLE CARRIERS OR CYCLE PROTECTORS
- Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION

## Abstract

A hydraulic brake system is adapted to be assembled on a steering assembly. The hydraulic brake system includes a connecting member and hydraulic device. The connecting member has a receiving room and a receiving opening. The hydraulic device has a hydraulic cylinder and a fluid tank. The hydraulic cylinder is received in the receiving room. The fluid tank is inserted in the receiving opening and connected with the hydraulic cylinder. The hydraulic cylinder has a main body, two pistons and two springs. The main body has two hydraulic chambers. The two pistons are assembled in the two hydraulic chambers and two springs sleeve onto the two pistons. Two brake cables and two fluid pipes are connected with the hydraulic cylinder. When the brake cable pulls the piston to press a fluid in the hydraulic chamber, the fluid flows into the fluid pipe so as to control a brake device.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A hydraulic brake system which is adapted to be assembled on a steering assembly, the hydraulic brake system comprising:
a connecting member having a receiving room defined therein and a receiving opening defined at one side thereof, the receiving opening communicating with the receiving room, the receiving room having an opening defined at one end of the connecting member;
a hydraulic device having a hydraulic cylinder and a fluid tank, the hydraulic cylinder received in the receiving room via the opening of the receiving room, the fluid tank inserted in the receiving opening of the connecting member and connected with the hydraulic cylinder, the hydraulic cylinder having a main body, two pistons and two springs, the main body having two hydraulic chambers defined therethrough and a guiding channel defined in a top side thereof, the guiding channel communicating with the two hydraulic chambers with one end and communicating with the fluid tank with another end, the two pistons assembled in the two hydraulic chambers of the main body respectively, two springs sleeving onto the two pistons respectively; and
two brake cables connected with the hydraulic cylinder, each brake cable has one end inserted into each hydraulic chamber and connected with each piston so as to control the movement of each piston relative to each corresponding spring; and
two fluid pipes connected with a bottom side the hydraulic cylinder, each fluid pipe communicating with each corresponding hydraulic chamber;
wherein, when the brake cable pulls the piston to press a fluid in the hydraulic chamber, the fluid flows into the fluid pipe so as to control a brake device.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The hydraulic brake system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the main body has a protrusion protruded from the top side thereof, the guiding channel being defined through the protrusion, the protrusion inserted into the fluid tank so that the guiding channel communicates with the fluid tank.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The hydraulic brake system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the main body of the hydraulic cylinder has two posts protruded from a bottom side thereof, each post having a connecting channel defined therethrough, the two connecting channels of the two posts communicating with the two hydraulic chambers respectively, each connecting channel communicating with each corresponding fluid pipe.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The hydraulic brake system as claimed in claim 3, wherein, the connecting member has two holes defined in a bottom side thereof, the two posts being inserted into the two holes so that the hydraulic cylinder is positioned in the connecting member, the hydraulic device has two tube adaptors, each tube adaptor having one end connected with each corresponding post and another end connected with each fluid pipe so that each connecting channel of each post communicates with each corresponding fluid pipe via each tube adaptor.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The hydraulic brake system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each piston has a piston rod and a piston head, the piston head assembled with one end of the piston rod, each spring sleeving onto the piston rod and abutting against the piston head with one end and against a shoulder of the hydraulic chamber with another end so that when the piston head is pulled by the brake cable, the piston head is moved inwardly so as to press the fluid within the hydraulic chamber.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The hydraulic brake system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connecting member has a clamping portion defined at one end thereof, a clamping member cooperating with the clamping portion to clamp the bicycle handlebar, the clamping member being secured to the clamping portion of connecting member by two fastening assemblies, so that the bicycle handlebar is fixed on the connecting member.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The hydraulic brake system as claimed in claim 1, further comprises a lid member disposed in the opening of the connecting member so that an opening of the fluid tank is covered with the lid member.