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2. Hydraulic brake - Wikipedia

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   Fred Duesenberg used Lockheed Corporation hydraulic brakes on his 1914 racing cars [4] and his car company, Duesenberg, was the first to use the technology on the Duesenberg Model A in 1921. Knox Motors Company of Springfield, MA was equipping its tractors with hydraulic brakes, beginning in 1915. [5]

3. Brake fluid - Wikipedia

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   Brake fluid is a type of hydraulic fluid used in hydraulic brake and hydraulic clutch applications in automobiles, motorcycles, light trucks, and some bicycles. It is used to transfer force into pressure, and to amplify braking force.

4. Power brakes - Wikipedia

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   Power brakes consist of a system of hydraulics used to slow down or stop a motor vehicle. It uses a combination of mechanical components and vacuum assistance to multiply the pressure applied to the brake pedal by the driver into enough force to actuate the brakes and stop the vehicle.

5. Hydraulic fluid - Wikipedia

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   Common hydraulic fluids are based on mineral oil or water. [1] Examples of equipment that might use hydraulic fluids are excavators and backhoes, hydraulic brakes, power steering systems, automatic transmissions, garbage trucks, aircraft flight control systems, lifts, and industrial machinery.

6. Brake - Wikipedia

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   Frictional brakes are most common and can be divided broadly into "shoe" or "pad" brakes, using an explicit wear surface, and hydrodynamic brakes, such as parachutes, which use friction in a working fluid and do not explicitly wear. Typically the term "friction brake" is used to mean pad/shoe brakes and excludes hydrodynamic brakes, even though ...

7. Automotive Products - Wikipedia

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   AP Lockheed disc brake caliper. Automotive Products, commonly abbreviated to AP, was an automotive industry components company set up in 1920 by Edward Boughton, Willie Emmott and Denis Brock, to import and sell American-made components to service the fleet of ex-military trucks left behind in Europe after World War I.

8. Brake-by-wire - Wikipedia

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   The hydraulic force generated by pressing the brake pedal is used only as a sensor input to the computer unless a catastrophic failure occurs including a loss of 12-volt electrical power. The brake actuator has an electric pump that provides the hydraulic pressure for the system, and valves to pressurize each wheel caliper to apply the friction ...

9. Wheel cylinder - Wikipedia

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   A wheel cylinder is a component of a hydraulic drum brake system. [1] It is located in each wheel and is usually positioned at the top of the wheel, above the shoes. Its function is to exert force onto the shoes so as to bring them into contact with the drum and stop the vehicle with friction. [2]