Variable braking systems and devices
AssigneeGoodrich Corporation
InventorsVenkatesh Chitragar, Vinayak Vijaya Chandran
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Abstract
A brake roller assembly may comprise: a shaft; a first roller bearing coupled to the shaft and disposed at a first axial end of the shaft a second roller bearing coupled to the shaft and disposed at a second axial end of the shaft; a roller cylinder disposed radially outward of the first roller bearing and the second roller bearing; and a braking arrangement, including a plurality of electrodes, and a plurality of rotor disks coupled to the roller cylinder, each rotor disk in the plurality of rotor disks disposed between an anode in the plurality of electrodes and a cathode in the plurality of electrodes.
Claims7
A brake roller assembly, comprising:
- a shaft;
- a first roller bearing coupled to the shaft and disposed at a first axial end of the shaft;
- a second roller bearing coupled to the shaft and disposed at a second axial end of the shaft;
- a roller cylinder disposed radially outward of the first roller bearing and the second roller bearing;
- a cavity defined between the shaft and the roller cylinder, wherein the cavity is configured to receive a fluid;
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- a braking arrangement, including:
- a plurality of electrodes, and
- a plurality of rotor disks coupled to the roller cylinder, each rotor disk in the plurality of rotor disks disposed between an anode in the plurality of electrodes and a cathode in the plurality of electrodes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.