Asymmetrical brake torque plate back leg
AssigneeGoodrich Corporation
InventorBradley J. Baden
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Abstract
A brake comprising a brake disk stack including stators alternating with rotors that are rotatable relative to the stators about an axis of the disk stack, an annular torque plate at one axial end of the brake disk stack, and a circumferential arrangement of actuators at the other axial end of the brake disk stack for urging the brake disk stack against the torque plate thereby to effect a braking force on the rotors. A back leg (33) of the annular torque plate includes a plurality of apertures (110a-110f) arranged asymmetrically around the axis of the brake disk stack.
Claims21
A brake comprising a brake disk stack including stators alternating with rotors that are rotatable relative to the stators about an axis of the disk stack, an annular torque plate including a back leg at one axial end of the brake disk stack, and a circumferential arrangement of actuators at the other axial end of the brake disk stack for urging the brake disk stack against the annular torque plate to effect a braking force on the rotors, wherein the back leg of the annular torque plate includes a plurality of apertures arranged asymmetrically around the axis of the brake disk stack.
A brake comprising a brake disk stack including stators alternating with rotors that are rotatable relative to the stators about an axis of the disk stack, an annular torque plate including a back leg at one axial end of the brake disk stack, and a circumferential arrangement of actuators at the other axial end of the brake, disk stack for urging the brake disk stack against the annular torque plate to effect a braking force on the rotors, wherein the back leg includes a plurality of circumferentially, arranged segments of varying torsional and axial strength.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.