Wet disc brake system
AssigneeAdvanced Braking Pty Ltd
InventorsAndrew Miller, Robert McDougall, Stuart Millgate
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Abstract
A wet disc brake system is described which includes a housing assembly and brake callipers. The housing assembly is provided with openings for seating cylinders of respective brake callipers. The callipers are coupled to a structural component of a vehicle to which the system is fitted and in particular a flange of an axle housing. This enables reactive forces created during a braking operation to be transmitted via the callipers to the flange and axle housing rather than being carried by housing assembly. As the housing assembly does not bear any substantive load, it may be made of a relatively light weight construction or material.
Claims11
A wet disc brake system comprising:
- a housing configured to form a sealed cavity about a body rotating relative to the housing;
- one or more brake callipers disposed in the housing, the brake callipers provided with one or more cylinders;
- the housing having an outer casing which extends circumferentially about the one or more callipers, and a first plate disposed on one side of the outer casing, the first plate being provided with:
- a) an opening for each of the cylinders, wherein each cylinder is seated in a respective opening;
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- b) a plurality of calliper fastening holes capable of being aligned with holes in a structural component of an axle housing,
- wherein fasteners are able to engage the callipers, pass through the calliper holes in the first plate and into the holes of the structural component wherein load on the one or more callipers during braking is transferred to and borne by the axle housing via the fasteners.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.