Patent ID: 8096389
Filing Date: 2012-01-17
Classification: F16D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. In combination with a motor vehicle having brakes that are actuated to prevent vehicle wheel rotation and hence rolling movement of said vehicle, a brake actuating system comprising: a cable system operatively connected to the brakes such that increasing tension in the cable system actuates the brakes, and then decreasing tension in the cable system de-actuates the brakes, the cable system including an input cable; a cable connector including a cable connector portion connected to a proximal end of the input cable, an actuator connector portion extending generally transversely to a longitudinal extent of the input cable, and at least one arm extending between the cable connector portion and the actuator connector portion; an actuator including an output member movable in a brake applying direction and a brake releasing direction, the output member including a receiving space having (a) a connector receiving portion having first and second ends and (b) an entry portion having first and second ends; the first end of the entry portion being open in a direction substantially parallel to the brake applying and releasing directions to an edge of the output member and the second end of the entry portion being open to the connector receiving portion, the receiving space being configured to enable the actuator connector portion to be passed into the first end of the entry portion and then through the second end thereof into the connector receiving portion, wherein at least the second end of the connector receiving portion is spaced from the second end of the entry portion; the cable connector operatively connecting the input cable to the output member of the actuator to enable movement of the output member in the brake applying and releasing directions thereof to increase and decrease the tension in the cable system via the input cable with the actuator connector portion engaging the first end of the connector receiving portion as the output member is moved in the brake applying and releasing directions thereof.