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US 2008/0289918 A1Published application
Internally vented brake disk with improved heat dissipation
AssigneeSgl Carbon SE
InventorsKevin Boike, Ryan L. Colburn
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Abstract
A vented brake disk has improved heat dissipation by cooling channels that extend from an inner circumference to an outer circumference and the channel walls of which are formed with flow obstructions in the form of a female thread.
Claims15
A vented brake disk with improved heat dissipation, comprising:
- a substantially circular, annular brake disk body formed with an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface;
- at least one cooling channel formed inside said brake disk body and extending from said inner circumferential surface to said outer circumferential surface;
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- a multiplicity of substantially evenly distributed flow obstructions formed on a channel wall bounding said at least one cooling channel.
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