A brake piston is described. The brake piston is configured for use in a disk brake system, the piston comprising: a body having an outside width perpendicular to a central axis; a footing disposed at a distal end of the piston; wherein the footing is configured to exert force on a brake pad during actuation of the disk brake system; the footing having a face configured to contact the brake pad, the face having a length and a width, wherein the length is longer than the outside width of the body, and the length is greater than the width.

A laminated shim for a disc brake includes base and cover shim plates. The base shim plate includes a base side substrate portion, and a base side locking piece extending in a lamination direction of the base shim plate and the cover shim plate. The cover shim plate includes a cover side substrate portion which is laminated on the base side substrate portion, and a cover side locking piece which extends from the cover side substrate portion in an extension direction of the base side locking piece and is radially overlapped with the base side locking piece. A circumferential end portion of one of the base side locking piece and the cover side locking piece abuts against a movement restricting surface facing a circumferential direction and provided at one of the base side substrate portion and the cover side substrate portion.

A brake caliper (100) includes a bolt guide (110) for axially displacing the brake caliper (100) on a brake carrier. A bolt (122) is received axially displaceably in the bolt guide (110), the bolt (122) having a bushing (124) arranged around the bolt (122). In addition to the bushing (124) and adjacent thereto, the brake caliper (100) has at least one damping element (130), the damping element (130) circumferentially surrounding the bolt (122) and being designed to damp a relative movement in the radial direction between the bolt (122) and the bolt guide (110). A kit for a bolt guide (110) of a brake caliper (100) includes the bolt, the bushing, and the damping element.

An improved friction material is described, comprising a binding composition based on a hydraulic binder, and its use in brake pads and industrial applications.

A shoe element for use in a drum brake includes a web segment and a support segment, wherein the support segment includes a spherical segment, the web segment includes a web-side engagement segment for interlocking engagement with a shoe web or is integrally formed with a shoe web, and wherein the web segment and the support segment are integrally formed with one another.

A bicycle disc brake pad has a support frame, a friction-wearing material element and a vibration damping element associated with the support frame.

A caliper body for a disc brake is described. The caliper body is adapted to straddle an associable brake disc. The caliper body may have a first elongated portion, or a vehicle-side elongated portion, at least partially adapted to face the first braking surface. The caliper bdy may also have a second elongated portion, or wheel-side elongated portion, opposite to the first elongated portion and at least partially adapted to face the second braking surface. At least one part of the first elongated portion has at least a first module and at least one part of the second elongated portion has at least a second module. The first module and the second module are obtained by at least one non-additive manufacturing technique.

The invention relates to a braking mechanism (10) for an electric drive motor (1), in particular a drive motor (2) comprising an armature shaft (5) that protrudes from a motor housing (2); the braking mechanism (10) comprises at least one braking element (17) and an energy store, the energy store permanently applying a braking power to a frictional surface of the braking element. The braking mechanism (10) is characterized in that the energy store and the braking element (17) are made of the same material as a single piece.

A friction element having a friction layer or block made at least in part of a compounded friction material having a homogenous fibrous microstructure, in which the fibrous aspect of the homogenous microstructure appears to be lost up to a magnification of 100. The friction material is obtained with a mixing step including a first step of hot blending of at least part of the organic binder with at least part of the other components of the friction material by a rolling mill blender that is open to atmospheric pressure at a temperature lower than the polymerization temperature of the organic binder but greater than or equal to its softening temperature, in order to obtain a semifinished solid product. A second step of grinding the semifinished solid product reduces the product to a powder.

The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods to limit the torque of tools and devices, and specifically, to single-use or disposable, low-cost slip clutch systems and methods with modular disks that limit the output torque of manual or power-driven medical drivers.