Method for the production of brake pads and associated brake pad
AssigneeITT Italia S.r.l.
InventorPietro Bertoldo
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Abstract
A method for the production of braking elements for vehicles, in particular brake pads, includes a die forming step by means of fine and/or traditional shearing of a metal support and a molding step upon the metal support of a block of friction material. The friction material is selected from the group of asbestos free materials, while the metal plate is made of an aluminum alloy selected from the group consisting of aluminum alloys subjected to precipitation hardening (age-hardening alloys) and is made from the fine and/or traditional shearing of a metal sheet when the alloy is in a solubilized state. The alloy is not age hardened until a friction material baking step in order to gain the mechanical properties needed for its operation.
Claims11
A braking element, comprising:
- a metal support;
- and
- a block of friction material which has been made integral to the metal support by mold forming the block of friction material on a side of the metal support;
- and in which:
- i)—the friction material comprises a non-asbestos organic (NAO) material;
- and
- ii)—the metal support is made from an anticorrosive alloy made from one of the 2xxx, 6xxx or 7xxx series of aluminum alloys that has been age or precipitation hardened from a T4 state to a T6 state during the mold forming of the block of friction material on the side of the metal support, wherein the aged or precipitation hardened aluminum alloy does not solubilize under heat experienced during braking, thereby enabling the metal support to maintain enhanced hardness and resistance characteristics and in which the braking element is part of a motor vehicle braking system.
A braking element comprising:
- a metal support, and
- a block of friction material integrally disposed on a first side of the metal support, wherein:
- i) the metal support being die formed by means of shearing, the metal support being formed of an aluminum alloy selected from a group consisting of aluminum alloys suitable for precipitation or age-hardening, the aluminum alloy being in a completely or partially solubilized state during the die forming;
- ii) the block of friction material being mold formed on the first side of the metal support facing, in use, an element to be braked, including heat treating the block of friction material to form it integral to the metal support, the friction material being selected from a group of asbestos free friction materials;
- and
- iii) wherein the selected aluminum alloy has undergone precipitation or age-hardening during the heat treating of the block of friction material from a T4 state to a T6 state such that the resulting metal support possesses and maintains enhanced hardness and resistance characteristics in which the aluminum alloy of the resulting precipitation or age-hardened metal support does not solubilize due to heating during braking to enable hardness and resistance-characteristics of the metal support to be maintained and in which the braking element is part of a motor vehicle braking system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.