System to provide temperature conditioned air to a brake assembly
AssigneeFca US LLC
InventorsUday Kiran Mahakali, Sreekanth Surapaneni
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a wheel, a brake assembly, a conditioned air source and an air circuit. The brake assembly has a portion selectively engageable with the wheel to reduce the rate of rotation of the wheel or stop rotation of the wheel. The conditioned air source provides an output air flow to the air circuit. The air circuit includes a first outlet through which at least a portion of the output air flow is directed toward at least part of the brake assembly under at least some conditions of vehicle operation. Accordingly, a flow of conditioned air, which may be heated or cooled relative to ambient air, may be provided to the brake assembly.
Claims15
A vehicle, including:
- a wheel;
- a brake assembly having a portion selectively engageable with the wheel to reduce the rate of rotation of the wheel or stop rotation of the wheel;
- a conditioned air source providing an output air flow;
- an air circuit in which the output air flow is directed, and wherein the air circuit includes a first outlet through which at least a portion of the output air flow is directed toward at least part of the brake assembly under at least some conditions of vehicle operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.