ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,211, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Haldex Aktiebolag (Landskrona, Sweden).
"Device for restoring brake pads, and disc brake" was invented by Hans Welin (Sankt Ibb, Sweden) and Goran Stensson (Sjobo, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for supporting and guiding a brake pad backplate and a brake pad arranged thereon in a pad slot of a disc brake, including a restoring device formed by two separately acting restoring elements. One restoring element is formed by a wire spring which serves to restore the lower portion of the brake pad backplate, while the other restoring element is formed by a pad hold-down spring which i...