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7617914 Lightweight brake drum with centerline squealer band  
A brake drum that converts kinetic and potential energy into frictional heat without developing destructively high temperatures and provides such performance at a reduced weight with an increase in...
7600615 Finned brake duct to divert cooling air to a vehicle brake system  
A brake duct assembly for use in communicating cooling air from a front facia of a vehicle to a front brake assembly. The assembly includes an inlet portion, a passageway portion, and an outlet...
7594567 Protection shield for disk brake  
A protection device ( 10 ) in a disk brake arrangement for protecting a brake disk ( 12 ) from dirt particles. The protection device at least partly surrounds the brake disk ( 12 ), and the...
7380645 Aerodynamic standoffs to air cool disc type auto brake rotors  
The invention includes a mounting hat for a brake rotor having a lower section connected to an upper section. Also included is a plurality of aerodynamically shaped standoff vanes each having a...
7267210 Braking bank and disc for disc brake  
A braking band ( 14 ) of a disc-brake disc ( 10 ), which has an unusual ability to improve the cooling efficiency of the disc brake, comprises a first plate ( 20 ) and a second plate ( 22 )...
7255205 Disc brake located outside wheel envelope  
A disc brake for a vehicle such as a commercial vehicle, wherein the brake rotor extends from a hub end of an axle inboard a sufficient distance to place the friction surface of the rotor and the...
7228947 Method and tools for the production of a braking band for a brake disk  
The invention relates to a method and tools for producing a braking band ( 2 ) of a disk-brake disk ( 1 ) by casting, in which the disk comprises at least two plates ( 3, 3 ′) connected to one...
7219777 Reinforced brake rotor  
Some embodiments of the present invention are directed to a brake rotor which may include a central mounting portion for mounting the brake rotor on a hub, a first annular braking surface and a...
7198139 Air guide for cooling a vehicle brake assembly  
A brake cooling system that directs cooling air to a vehicle brake assembly. The cooling system includes an air guide that, during operation of the vehicle, receives air, pressurizes air, and...
7111710 Braking surface cooling assembly and brake performance enhancing methods  
Vanes positioned immediately adjacent the swept area of a moving friction brake rotor induce a flow of air over the rotor by displacing the boundary layer of gases from the rotor surface and...
7097010 Brake disc for a vehicle disc brake  
Brake disc for a vehicle disc brake, comprising a radially inner hub portion ( 1 a ), intended to be non-rotatably joined to a wheel hub, and a surrounding, radially outer disc portion with...
7059456 Internally-ventilated brake disks with improved cooling  
Internally ventilated brake disk in the form of a circular ring disk with cooling channels in the interior of the disk which extend, respectively, from the inner circumference to the outer...
6962242 Brake rotor  
A brake rotor having an annular disc connected to an annular mounting flange, the mounting flange defining a radially inner flange wall and including a plurality of circumferentially spaced...
6957726 Floating brake rotor assembly with non-load bearing pins  
The floating brake rotor assembly with non-load bearing pins includes a brake rotor and hub that are coplanar and are interconnected by pin and spring assemblies such that the pins do not bear...
6935470 Disk brake  
A disk brake comprising: a disk, which comprises a plurality of coaxially disposed arcuate shaped recesses and a plurality of radially disposed channels; arcuate shaped pads matingly mounted...
6880683 Brake disc having air circulating fan blades  
A brake disc for cycle brake systems includes an outer peripheral portion, a hub portion, and an air circulating device attached to the brake disc, and inclined relative to the brake disc, to...
6698557 Brake drum cooling apparatus  
A brake drum assembly includes an impeller and stator that help cool the brake drum. The impeller and stator combination are especially suited for low-speed vehicle operations. The impeller...
6626273 Brake disk and corresponding axle hub  
The invention relates to a brake disk comprising two friction rings which are connected via links and between which an air channel is configured, as well as support elements which are molded to the...
6615958 Integrated aircraft wheel, brake and axle for all-electric aircraft braking system  
An integrated wheel, brake and axle structure for an aircraft comprises a tubular axle, and a wheel hub rotatably mounted interiorly of the tubular axle and accessible at an axial end thereof for...
6615954 Monitoring system and method for brake disks  
A monitoring system for brake disks, particularly of rail vehicles, having at least two sensors which are arranged in the brake disk or in the proximity of the brake disk and whose sensor signals...
6564912 Brake disk  
A brake disk for disk brakes, in particular of land vehicles, has a friction ring received by a support section, formed, for example, by a portion of a wheel hub. The support section has an...
6446770 Brake rotor having an array of grooves formed thereon  
A rotor has an array of grooves formed on the brake pad contact surface. The array is preferably formed as a repeating pattern of regularly spaced grooves. The repeating pattern of grooves creates...
6443269 Rotor for disc brake assembly  
An annular disc brake assembly having a housing mounted to a vehicle and a rotor disc mounted to a wheel of the vehicle. Annular brake pads extend parallel to the rotor disc within the housing and...
6422358 Ventilated disc brake rotor  
The invention is directed to a ventilated brake rotor, including a hub mounting face, a rotor ring having two faces, and a hub wall connecting the hub mounting face to the rotor ring. The rotor...
6419056 Apparatus for aircraft brake thermal management  
Apparatus for aircraft brake thermal management including heat shields made of one or more insulating pouches of metallic foil having ceramic fibers or other appropriate insulation therein. The...
6401880 Brake rotor having cooling passageways with substantially constant cross-sections  
A brake rotor for an automotive vehicle braking system is disclosed. The rotor includes a brake rotor hat portion attached to a brake rotor disk portion. The disk includes a plurality of radially...
6386341 Brake disk made of a fiber-reinforced material  
A brake disk made of a fiber-reinforced material includes two assembled friction rings. The friction rings, on interior sides, are provided with ribs. The two friction rings are supported with...
6367599 Ventilated disc  
An inner disc portion and an outer disc portion are connected through first to fifth connecting ribs. The second and third connecting ribs which are provided on the outer diameter side are inclined...
6367598 Rotor for disc brake assembly  
A brake rotor for use in a vehicle disc brake assembly includes an inner mounting flange and an outer annular friction disc connected together by a circumferential hat. The inner mounting flange is...
6364071 Combined disk and drum brake with an internally ventilated brake disk  
An internally ventilated brake disk has two friction rings and an inside shoe brake, in the interior friction ring. A ring groove is provided which, in its base, has passage openings to air guiding...
6357562 Aerodynamic wheel-bearing housing  
A wheel bearing housing for suspending a wheel of a vehicle is provided. The wheel, mounted at the wheel bearing housing, is provided with a brake device. In order to create a wheel suspension...
6328137 Disk brake assembly  
An annular disk brake assembly having a housing mounted to a vehicle and a rotor disk mounted to a wheel of the vehicle. Annular brake pads extend parallel to the rotor disk within the housing and...
6318518 Rotor for eddy current retarder  
A rotor for an eddy current retarder has a plurality of cooling fins provided around an outer surface of a drum. A transverse cross section of each of the cooling fins is rectangular or...
6273223 Disc brake  
Improved disc brake, of the type comprising a disc in the shape of a flat circular crown having at a point of its periphery, two facing braking pads fitted to press the disc inserted between said...
6264012 Rotating cooling wheel and method of manufacturing the same and drum brake  
An outer surface 1d of the brake drum 1 has seven thick portions (10B 1 to 10B 7 ) each having equal mass and separated at an equal distance in the circumferential direction from a reference line...
6241053 Ventilated disc brake rotor  
A ventilated disc brake rotor has first and second discs separated by radially extending ribs. The first disc has a thin wall section, and a peripheral thick wall section having an increased wall...
6216829 Rotor with tubular vent ducts  
The present invention discloses a vented brake rotor having tubular ducts. The rotor includes universal rotor blank having a hat section and a peripheral section radially extending therefrom. The...
6186292 Method of improving rotor vibration control and resulting rotor  
The noise created by a vehicle rotor is reduced by adjusting the natural or resonant frequency at which the rotor tends to vibrate. The resonant frequency is moved away from the frequencies of...
6161661 Brake disc for a disc braking system  
A brake disk has a thickness D1 and includes two friction plates disposed parallel to each other, between which an airflow duct having a width D2 is located in a substantially central position. The...
6155650 Anti-dust and cooling cover for brake assembly  
An anti-dust and cooling cover adapted for being positionable between a wheel and a brake assembly of a vehicle and being in rotation with the wheel and the brake assembly is disclosed. The cover...
6145636 Ventilated rotor  
A ventilated rotor to be disclosed has a first slide board, a second slide board which faces the first slide board and N-numbered (N: natural number, not less than 2) ribs provided between the...
6142267 Disc brake rotor  
An improved vehicle disc brake rotor is disclosed having a unique vented design. The rotor includes a pair of brake friction plates maintained in spaced relationship by a plurality of radially...
6119827 Brake rotor for a motor vehicle  
A brake rotor includes a disc-shaped carrier and friction rings arranged on or on top of the carrier, so that the friction rings and carrier form a single piece construction. The carrier and...
6095291 Bearing-and-brake-member assembly for motor vehicles, provided with an intermediate connection element between the bearing and the brake member  
A disc or drum brake member is usually connected to the flange of the bearing of a motor vehicle wheel; possible manufacturing errors in the flange of the bearing, and/or the brake member cause, on...
6090006 Planetary transmission apparatus including vehicle-wheel hub  
A planetary transmission for a vehicle, comprising a planet carrier, on which at least one planet wheel is mounted, a hub arranged for a vehicle wheel and connected to the planet carrier, and a...
6073735 Brake disc  
A brake disc (10) has a cover (12) made of a cast aluminium alloy and a brake ring (14) made of cast steel or cast iron. The cover (12) is cast onto pockets (22) which have a radially inwardly...
6053290 Dual web brake rotor  
A disc brake rotor for motor vehicles, having a dual web structural support for connecting a pair of brake discs to a rotor hub that is positioned centrally within the brake rotor without lateral...
6035978 Brake Disk  
A multi-part brake disk consists of a friction ring and a bowl-shaped holding part formed from sheet metal and connected in a form-fitting manner to the friction ring by plastic deformation. To...
6032769 Modular rotor  
The present invention relates to a modular brake rotor having friction rings secured to a core. The core includes a hat section having a hat wall, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart...
5954405 Air guiding arrangement for cooling vehicle wheel brake  
An air guiding arrangement for cooling wheel brakes consists of a profiled plastic elastic deflection element which is set against the arriving air flow and which is held on the vehicle side on an...
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