The automotive industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by stringent safety regulations, safety concerns, and need to reduce carbon emissions, and growing importance of ...

Hill-Rom’s Latitude patient-bed care-arm system safely delivers gas, data, and electricity to the patient-care arena and makes bed placement more flexible. The Latitude system is a flooranchored, ...

Antony Ingram March 21, 2012 Comment Now! Drivers of hybrid and electric vehicles will be used to the feel of regenerative braking. As you brake, or even lift off the accelerator pedal in some ...

The PIT Group and the Technology & Maintenance Council of the American Trucking Associations will begin testing and evaluating electro-mechanical braking systems for Class 8 trucks, the groups ...

Next-generation machines will integrate technologies to ensure proper functionality and patient safety. A holding brake—or, more specifically, an electromagnetic brake—is one of these technologies.

This paper describes a new design for ABS drum brakes. The design uses some components associated with electric trailer brakes. Similar to electric trailer brakes, a cam is rotated by the friction ...

Autonomous vehicles and battery-electric trucks are no longer figments of engineers’ imaginations. They are poised to reshape almost everything we know about building and operating heavy trucks — ...

Efficiency, friend. Unlike normal brake discs, which simply convert kinetic energy into heat that’s lost forever, regen braking allows electricity to be harvested from the motor and then recycled back ...