A device that employs shear forces to transmit energy includes an outer housing assembly, a disk, and a reservoir with a working fluid. The disk is received in and rotatable relative to the outer housing assembly. A working cavity is formed between a rotor portion of the disk and the outer housing assembly into which the working fluid is received to create shear forces. A plurality of flow altering structures are disposed on the outer housing assembly and are configured to reduce a thickness of a boundary layer of the working fluid in the working cavity in areas that are local to the flow altering structures.

A method of manufacturing a brake disc of heterogeneous materials, may include a disc device and a hub device formed in a cast-bonding manner using different materials, includes performing a first casting for casting the disc device using a grey cast-iron material, performing a preparation step by placing the disc device in a casting mold as an insert, performing a second casting for preparing a brake disc cast product by injecting molten aluminum alloy into the casting mold and casting the hub device to be cast-bonded to the disc device, and performing an oxynitriding process for forming an oxynitride layer by smoothing a surface of the brake disc cast product and performing heat treatment in a gaseous atmosphere at a temperature ranging from 425 to 500 C.

A brake component mounting structure for a thin-wall axle of a heavy-duty vehicle including a mounting plate and a brake component bracket. The brake component bracket is attached to and extends from the mounting plate. The mounting plate has at least one continuous edge attached by a continuous weld to the axle.

A method of making an assembly having a cast iron subassembly. The method may include providing a steel insert having a first joining surface and bonding the steel insert to a cast iron part to form a cast iron subassembly such that the first joining surface may be an exterior surface of the cast iron subassembly.

A method of manufacturing a brake pad including a friction pad and a mounting structure includes providing a cure mold; filling the cure mold with granulated thermoset plastic to form the mounting structure and particulate friction material to form the friction pad; and press curing in a single step the filled cure mold to form the brake pad.

Provided are a brake pad for a disc brake including a resin back plate and a friction material joined to one surface of the resin back plate, in which the resin back plate is formed of a cured product of a first thermosetting resin composition, and a metal reinforcing material is provided on a surface of the resin back plate opposite to the surface joined to the friction material or inside the resin back plate, and a method of manufacturing the brake pad.

A brake disc having a friction ring and a hub produced as a separate element and arranged inside the friction ring according. Recesses are configured in the friction ring on the inside to connect the hub to the friction ring and corresponding projections are formed on the hub, which projections engage in the recesses of the friction ring in order to be able to transfer torque from the friction ring to the hub. The recesses have an undercut at least partially in a radial direction, as viewed looking inward from the outside. The disc is simple and cost-effective to manufacture and has an acoustically advantageous operating performance, in particular in the case of thermal expansion.

Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a lightweight brake disc with maximized heat dissipation ability. The method includes a first step of mixing gray cast iron and FeCr ferroalloy with each other to produce a mixture, melting and solidifying the mixture to cast an alloy; a second step of heat-treating the alloy cast in the first step to pearlitize a microstructure of the alloy; and a third step of performing nitriding heat treatment of the alloy heat-treated in the second step.

Provided is a disc brake including a brake caliper. The brake caliper has a first bridge part positioned on a first pin disposition part side and on which a sprue mark formed at the time of casting a caliper main body part is provided, and a second bridge part positioned on a second pin disposition part side. The brake caliper has a shape in which a moment of inertia of area of the caliper main body part on the first bridge part side is larger than a moment of inertia of area of the caliper main body part on the second bridge part side when the caliper main body part is divided by a straight line that bisects a line segment connecting a center of the first pin disposition part and a center of the second pin disposition part when viewed from an axial direction of a disc.

A brake disk (1) has a brake disk chamber (2), a friction ring (3) having two friction ring disks (3a, 3b) and a plurality of pin-shaped connecting elements (4) for connecting the brake disk chamber (2) and the friction ring (3). A cooling duct (5) is formed between the fiction ring disks (3a, 3b). The friction ring disks (3a, 3b) have respective friction surfaces (3a1, 3b1) on their outer planar surfaces and respective cooling channel surfaces (3a2, 3b2) on their inner planar surfaces. The friction ring (3) has a plurality of receiving regions (7) for receiving the pin-shaped connecting elements (4). The brake disk chamber (2) is cast to the connecting elements (4) in a separate step by means of casting. A gap (8) existing between the brake disk chamber (2) and the friction ring (3) has such a width (A) which results from the fact that, during casting of the brake disk chamber (2), at least one section (3d) of a lateral surface (3c) of the inner diameter of the friction ring (3) which is closed in itself in the circumferential direction is used as part of a casting mold (9). An axial extension of that part of the receiving area (7) of the friction ring (3) which extends from the cooling channel surface (3a2) in the direction of the cooling channel (5) is 2-10 mm, preferably 4-7.5 mm, even more preferably 5.5 mm.