Electronic trailer brake controller with remote manual control

• US 5,782,542 A
• Filed: 02/19/1997
• Issued: 07/21/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hayes Brake Controller Co. LLC (Syncro Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hayes Lemmerz International Incorporated (Iochpe-Maxion SA)
• Inventors: Sullivan, David, McGrath, Michael C., Hedding, Michael A., Stockford, Brian J., Groleau, Wayne M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Young, Lee W.
• Application Number:
  US08/802,359
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 303/13, 303/18, 303/2, 303/7, 303/9.61, 303/20, 303/24.1, 303/124
• US Class Current: 303/7
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 13/66 Electrical control in fluid-pressure brake systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 13/74 with electrical assistance or drive
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 15/14 influencing electric control means
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/12 for automatic initiation; for initiation not subject to will of driver or passenger limiting speed of vehicles other than rail vehicles B60K31/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/20 specially for trailers, e.g. in case of uncoupling of or overrunning by trailer inertia-actuated overrun brakes B60T13/08
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1708 for lorries or tractor-trailer combinations
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/323 Systems specially adapted for tractor-trailer combinations

Abstract

An electronic brake controller for actuating electric wheel brakes of a towed vehicle which includes a remote manual control.

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