ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,207, issued on July 21, was assigned to HL MANDO Corp. (Pyeongtaek, South Korea).
"Pad spring" was invented by Hatem Shahin (Pfaffenhofen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pad spring of a caliper brake according to the present embodiment is provided as a pair of pad springs for elastically supporting a pair of pad plates on a carrier, and the pad springs includes a pair of clip bases in contact with protruding surfaces of protrusions formed on two sides of the pad plates, a pair of first anchors connected to lower ends of the clip bases and formed to be curved in contact with lower surfaces of the protrusions, a pair of secon...