US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Europe on Feb. 24 for "Spring brake actuator and retaining device for such spring brake actuator" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,082, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Europe BV (Brussels).

"Spring brake actuator and retaining device for such spring brake actuator" was invented by Senthil Kumar Arangarasan (Chennai, India), Pratheesh Kumar Prem Kumar (Coimbatore, India) and Aravindda Swamy Venkatesh (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spring brake actuator (2) for use in a commercial vehicle includes a cylinder housing (4) including a spring brake piston (10) for applying a braking force, a spring guide (12) attached to the spring brake piston (10). The spring guide (12) includes a valve (14) and a retaining device (16) for retainin...