US Patent Issued to ZF Active Safety on March 31 for "Floating caliper brake having two metal sections and one elastomer section" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,614, issued on March 31, was assigned to ZF Active Safety GmbH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Floating caliper brake having two metal sections and one elastomer section" was invented by Guido Zenzen (Macken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating caliper brake is shown including a first metal section fastened non-positively to a guiding element and is-arranged in a recess so that, in a first position, a first section of the first metal section rests in an axial direction, with positive engagement, against a first section of a wall, which defines the recess, on a first side of a limiting element, wherein, in a second position, in wh...