IP Library Granted Patent US 8,186,485
Granted Patent B2
US 8,186,485 · App. 12/367,973 · Granted May 29, 2012

Electric parking brake

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,186,485
App. No.
12/367,973
Granted
May 29, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is an electric parking brake. The electric parking brake includes a motor which forms torque through an electric device, multi-stage gears coupled with the motor, a gear wheel which is mechanically linked with the multi-stage gears, a screw nut which has a hollow structure, and is integrally formed with an inner circumferential surface of the gear wheel, a spindle geared with an inner circumferential surface of the screw nut to move in a shaft direction according to rotation of the gear wheel, a parking cable linked with the spindle at an outlet side of the spindle remote from the gear wheel, a stopper member fixed to an outer circumferential surface of a second end opposite to a first end of the spindle linked with the parking cable to prevent the spindle from excessively rotating when breaking is released. In the electric parking brake, the stopper member is fixed on the outer circumferential surface of an end opposite to one end of the spindle linked with the parking cable. In braking, the spindle moves in a direction to pull the parking cable such that the parking cable is pulled to the inner part of the screw nut. The length of the spindle and the space occupied by the spindle are reduced, so that the manufacturing cost can be significantly reduced.

Claims (10)

1. An electric parking brake comprising

a motor which forms torque through an electric device;

multi-stage gears coupled with the motor;

a gear wheel which is mechanically linked with the multi-stage gears;

a screw nut which has a hollow structure, and is integrally formed with an inner circumferential surface of the gear wheel;

a spindle geared with an inner circumferential surface of the screw nut to move in a shaft direction according to rotation of the gear wheel;

a parking cable linked with the spindle at an outlet side of the spindle remote from the gear wheel; and

a stopper member fixed to an outer circumferential surface of a second end opposite to a first end of the spindle linked with the parking cable to prevent the spindle from excessively rotating when breaking is released,

wherein the parking cable linked with the first end of the spindle is pulled to be positioned to an inner part of the screw nut in braking.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the stopper member is positioned outside of the screw nut.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 22, 2022
From: MANDO CORPORATION
To: HL MANDO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062206/0260 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 9, 2009
From: PARK, IN UK
To: MANDO CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022227/0450 →