Hybrid lightweight brake disk and production method
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsPaul Zandbergen, Maik Broda, Raphael Koch, Clemens Verpoort
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a hybrid lightweight brake disk and a method for producing the hybrid lightweight brake disk. The hybrid lightweight brake disk includes a brake chamber and a friction ring with at least one circular, outer friction surface. The method provides a brake chamber that includes a material containing an aluminum-forged alloy and a friction ring having a rapidly solidified aluminum alloy built up on an edge region of the brake chamber by using a laser deposition welding process or a 3D-printing process.
Claims9
A method for producing a hybrid lightweight brake disk, the method comprising:
- providing a brake chamber made from a material comprising an aluminum-forged alloy;
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- building up a friction ring from a rapidly solidified aluminum alloy on an edge region of the brake chamber by using an additive production process;
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- forced cooling the brake chamber during the building up of the friction ring by forced cooling a mold to which the brake chamber is attached.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.