Rotor for disc brake assembly
OwnerYvon Rancourtinventor
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Abstract
An annular disc brake assembly having a housing mounted to a vehicle and a rotor disc mounted to a wheel of the vehicle. Annular brake pads extend parallel to the rotor disc within the housing and are mounted thereto with at least one brake pad being movable axially by means of an oil applied bladder mounted to the housing and moving the first brake pad axially against the disc brake. The rotor disc is solid and has cooling fins on either side, just below the friction surfaces for dissipating the heat from the solid disc.
Claims7
A disc brake assembly comprising at least a housing, a rotatable hub and an annular rotor disc rotatable within the housing, an annular hub adapter mounting the rotor disc to the hub, the rotor disc further including an annular peripheral portion and at least a first radial planar friction surface on the annular peripheral portion;
- the housing includes a first annular brake shoe provided adjacent the first planar friction surface of the disc and movable axially towards and away from the first friction surface;
- an annular array of axially extending cooling fins integral with the rotor at the hub adapter wherein the hub adapter is in the form of a cylinder providing a rim and a narrow circumferential neck extending between the rim and the annular ring whereby the array of cooling fins are provided on either side of the neck.
A disc brake assembly comprising at least a housing, a rotatable hub and an annular rotor disc rotatable within the housing, an annular hub adapter mounting the rotor disc to the hub, the rotor disc further including an annular peripheral portion and at least a first radial planar friction surface on the annular peripheral portion;
- the housing includes a first annular brake shoe provided adjacent the first planar friction surface of the disc and movable axially towards and away from the first friction surface;
- wherein the annular peripheral portion includes a circumferential outer continuous portion with an array of circumferentially spaced apart axially extending cooling fins.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.