US Patent Issued to ZF CV Systems Global on April 21 for "Monostable and fault-tolerant parking brake valve assembly" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,141, issued on April 21, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Global GmbH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Monostable and fault-tolerant parking brake valve assembly" was invented by Thomas Dieckmann (Pattensen, Germany), Ralph-Carsten Lulfing (Garbsen, Germany), Julian van Thiel (Grossburgwedel, Germany) and Oliver Wulf (Neustadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking brake valve assembly for an electronically controllable pneumatic braking system of a vehicle is disclosed. The parking brake valve assembly includes: a first compressed air path which receives a supply pressure and has a first monostable valve unit for providing a first par...