MUMBAI, India, Sept. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517082199 A) filed by Astemo, Ltd., Tokyo, on Aug. 29, for 'drum brake.'
Inventor(s) include Ishii, Hideaki; and Mitsugi, Takashi.
The application for the patent was published on Sept. 26, under issue no. 39/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided is a drum brake comprising a shoe hold mechanism that improves tracking of the movement of brake shoes. A shoe hold pin of the shoe hold mechanism provided to the drum brake has: a base part that is locked to a back plate; a shaft part that is provided continuous from the base part, and a distal-end head part that is provided continuous at an axial end part of the shaft part, an engaging part provided to a shoe hold spring being engaged with the distal-end head part. A protruding part (contact part) with which the engaging part is brought into contact is provided at a position spaced from the distal-end head part toward the shaft-part side. The shoe hold mechanism makes it possible to improve the tracking of the movement of first and second brake shoes."
The patent application was internationally filed on Mar. 12, 2024, under International application No.PCT/JP2024/009454.
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