A brake system includes an electromechanical brake having a friction surface, a lining support, an electric motor for moving the lining support, a spring acting on the lining support, and a control and monitoring unit. A control and monitoring unit ascertains from at least one first value ascertained during a first movement of the lining support by the electric motor, an operating behavior value for a real operating behavior of an operating parameter of the relevant brake, and ascertains, by a comparison of the at least one real operating behavior value to at least one stored operating behavior expectation, a correction factor. The brake control system corrects by the one correction factor and activates a regulator of the electric motor using the corrected brake control signal. The control and monitoring unit is performs a calibration by a spring force of the at least one spring during the first movement.

A floating-caliper disc brake of a utility vehicle includes a brake disc, a brake carrier spanning the brake disc and having lining shafts arranged on both sides of the brake disc, a brake caliper overlapping the brake disc and movable relative to the brake carrier, brake linings arranged on both sides of the brake disc in a lining shaft of the brake carrier, and having a lining carrier plate and a friction lining attached thereto. An application-side brake lining can be pressed against the brake disc by an application device and a reaction-side brake lining can be pressed against the brake disc by a brake caliper back, by moving the brake caliper. The brake caliper can be reset by a resetting device along a wear adjustment path in an axial direction to the axis of rotation of the brake disc. With the same volume of the friction linings in the new condition, the friction lining thickness of the reaction-side brake lining is not the same as the friction lining thickness of the application-side brake lining (5).

A floating-caliper disc brake of a utility vehicle includes a brake disc, a brake carrier spanning the brake disc and having lining shafts arranged on both sides of the brake disc, a brake caliper overlapping the brake disc and movable relative to the brake carrier, brake linings arranged on both sides of the brake disc in a lining shaft of the brake carrier, and having a lining carrier plate and a friction lining attached thereto. An application-side brake lining can be pressed against the brake disc by an application device and a reaction-side brake lining can be pressed against the brake disc by a brake caliper back, by moving the brake caliper. The brake caliper can be reset by a resetting device along a wear adjustment path in an axial direction to the axis of rotation of the brake disc. With the same volume of the friction linings in the new condition, the friction lining thickness of the reaction-side brake lining is not the same as the friction lining thickness of the application-side brake lining (5).

The invention relates to a method for attenuating vibrations of an aircraft wheel/brake assembly arising during braking, the brake comprising rotor discs (2b) rotationally driven with the wheel by means of bars (5) secured to the wheel and engaging in notches (3b) of the rotor discs, and stator discs (2a) which are kept rotationally immobile by means of tenons (5) secured to a torque tube (1) of the brake and engaged in notches (3a) of the stator discs, the notches having flanks that are protected by brackets (7). The method involves selecting bracket/tenon pair and/or bracket/bar pairs with a coefficient of friction less than or equal to 0.6.

A slack adjuster assembly for use in a heavy-duty vehicle drum brake system, the slack adjuster assembly comprising a slack adjuster, an inboard sealing assembly, and a sensor arrangement. The slack adjuster is mounted on an inboard end of a camshaft of the drum brake system. The inboard sealing assembly sealingly engages with an inboard side of the slack adjuster. The sensor arrangement measures rotation of the camshaft and is at least partially disposed within the inboard sealing assembly to protect the sensor arrangement from impact damage, water, chemicals, and debris.

A self-adjusting automatic slack adjuster for reducing slack in the brake of a vehicle includes an adjuster link having a resilient portion. When a brake application force being applied to the slack adjuster exceeds a level that could result in brake application linkage damage as a result of the slack adjuster's slack adjustment mechanism having reached a travel limit, the resilient portion of the adjuster link permits the axial length of the adjuster link to change to accommodate the high brake application force in order to minimize or preclude damage to the brake application linkage.

A vehicle braking system includes a controller that receives signals from sensors associated with vehicle disc brakes, which allow detection of a parameter indicative of a degree of noise generated from each disc brake. When noise generation is detected, the controller activates a noise attenuation function of a first type if the vehicle is braking, and of a second type if the vehicle is not braking. The first type involves reducing actuating pressure of a fluid actuator associated with the disc brake for which noise generation is detected. The second type involves temporarily activating, while the vehicle is running and not braking, the fluid actuator associated with the disc brake which is generating noise. The controller also receives signals indicative of vehicle operating parameters which allow conditions to be defined in which priority is given to vehicle safety, and in which the noise attenuation function is excluded.

A brake system includes an electromechanical brake having a friction surface, a lining support, an electric motor for moving the lining support, a spring acting on the lining support, and a control and monitoring unit. A control and monitoring unit ascertains from at least one first value ascertained during a first movement of the lining support by the electric motor, an operating behavior value for a real operating behavior of an operating parameter of the relevant brake, and ascertains, by a comparison of the at least one real operating behavior value to at least one stored operating behavior expectation, a correction factor. The brake control system corrects by the one correction factor and activates a regulator of the electric motor using the corrected brake control signal. The control and monitoring unit is performs a calibration by a spring force of the at least one spring during the first movement.

A brake system includes an electromechanical brake having a friction surface, a lining support, an electric motor for moving the lining support, a spring acting on the lining support, and a control and monitoring unit. A control and monitoring unit ascertains from at least one first value ascertained during a first movement of the lining support by the electric motor, an operating behavior value for a real operating behavior of an operating parameter of the relevant brake, and ascertains, by a comparison of the at least one real operating behavior value to at least one stored operating behavior expectation, a correction factor. The brake control system corrects by the one correction factor and activates a regulator of the electric motor using the corrected brake control signal. The control and monitoring unit is performs a calibration by a spring force of the at least one spring during the first movement.

A brake system includes an electromechanical brake having a friction surface, a lining support having a brake lining, an electric motor for moving the lining support, and a control and monitoring unit. The control and monitoring unit ascertains, from a first value ascertained during a first movement of the lining support by the electric motor, an operating parameter of at least one part of the brake, and a second value ascertained during a second movement opposite to the first movement of the lining support, by the electric motor, an operating behavior value for a real operating behavior of the relevant brake, and ascertains, by comparing the at least one real operating behavior value to at least one stored operating behavior expectation, a correction factor. The brake control system is corrected by the one correction factor and a regulator of the electric motor is activated using the corrected brake control signal.