A method for forming a friction member and a friction member
AssigneeAutomotive Components Floby AB
InventorsAdam TOMAS, Nicholas ZERVOS, Anders EKLUND, Samuel AWE
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Abstract
A method of forming a friction surface of a friction member with an increased friction coefficient on the friction surface is described. The method includes forming the friction member including a matrix composite of a first material and reinforcing particles of a second material embedded in the first material, wherein the first material has a lower melting temperature than the second material, and forming the friction surface by melting a surface layer of the first material of the friction member to expose a part of the reinforcing particles and thereby to enable an increase of the friction coefficient of the friction surface of the friction member.
Claims18
A method of forming a friction surface of a friction member, the method comprising:
- forming the friction member including comprising a matrix composite of a first material and reinforcing particles of a second material embedded in the first material, wherein said first material has a lower melting temperature than said second material, and
- forming said friction surface by melting a surface layer of the first material of the friction member to expose a part of the reinforcing particles and thereby to enable an increase of the friction coefficient of the friction surface of the friction member.
A friction member comprising
- a matrix composite of a first material and reinforcing particles of a second material embedded in the first material, wherein said first material has a lower melting temperature than said second material, characterized in that
- the fiction member has a friction surface formed by melting a surface layer of the first material of the friction member to expose a part of the reinforcing particles and thereby to enable an increase of the friction coefficient of the friction surface of the friction member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.