A brake rotor, includes at least one friction element and one adapter element, wherein the brake rotor is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation, wherein the friction element has at least one friction surface and one connection region, wherein the adapter element has an installation region and a transfer region, wherein the installation region is configured for fixing the brake rotor to a hub, wherein the connection region indirectly or directly engages in positively locking fashion in a circumferential direction with the transfer region such that a torque about the axis of rotation can be transferred between the connection region and the transfer region from the friction element to the adapter element.

Apparatuses, systems, and methods apply, with a fan, a braking force to a vehicle that includes an axle. The fan is rotated at a first rotational speed based on a rotation of the axle that rotates at a second rotational speed. The first rotational speed is different from the second rotational speed. The fan applies the braking force when the fan rotates at the first rotational speed.

A braking band of a disc brake disc of a ventilated type unusually capable of avoiding vibrations which induce annoying squeals during the braking action. The braking band having two plates joined by connecting elements. At least one of the connecting elements is a fin that has an extension along an outer circumferential width, and an extension along an inner circumferential width. A section taken along a section plane having a radial and circumferential direction, section made by passing through a mean air flow point which runs through a gap, where the outer circumferential width is greater than the inner circumferential width.

An internally ventilated rotor, including at least two disc elements which are interconnected by at least one cooling element, the at least one cooling element having a textile fabric which extends from one disc element contact region of the cooling element, by which the cooling element is in contact with one disc element, as far as into another disc element contact region of the cooling element, by which the cooling element is in contact with another disc element.

A full carbon-ceramic axle-mounted brake disc is disclosed, including a disc hub and a plurality of friction discs sleeved on the disc hub and coaxially stacked. The plurality of friction discs and the friction discs and the disc hub are locked and connected integrally through connecting structures. The friction discs are made of a carbon-ceramic composite material and are composed of heat dissipation reinforcing ribs arranged radially on a disc face and a back face, the heat dissipation reinforcing ribs between the stacked friction discs being in contact with each other on a one-to-one basis. Radial heat dissipation channels are formed on two sides of the heat dissipation reinforcing rib, and a connecting groove connecting the radial heat dissipation channels on the two sides is formed between the heat dissipation reinforcing ribs.

A disk brake disk has a bell made of a first material and a braking band made of a second material. The bell has a bell body having a radially outer bell body portion and forms a plurality of bell projections radially protruding from the radially outer bell body portion. Each bell projection has a projection base close to the radially outer bell body portion and a distal projection portion far from the radially outer bell body portion. A braking band body is coupled to the distal projection portion. Adjacent projection bases are joined to one another by a bell rib made in a single piece with the bell body and having an inner axial rib face and an outer axial rib face. The braking band body is coupled to the inner axial rib face, leaving the outer axial rib face free and externally facing the disk brake disk.

A suspension device of a motor-vehicle wheel includes a support member of the motor-vehicle wheel connectable to the motor-vehicle structure by means of one or more suspension members, a brake disc connected in rotation with the motor-vehicle wheel, a brake caliper associated with the brake disc and a brake disc cover. The brake caliper is formed in a single piece with the support member of the motor-vehicle wheel by means of additive manufacturing technology.

An axle assembly for a working machine is provided. The axle assembly has an axle housing comprising a central portion housing a gear, wherein the gear is configured to rotate about an axis and is configured to be partially disposed in a lubricant reservoir, and at least one arm portion extending from the central portion, with the arm portion housing at least one driveshaft. The axle assembly further includes a conduit assembly configured to direct lubricant from the central portion to the arm portion, with the conduit assembly including a lubricant catcher having an inlet disposed in an interior volume of the central portion.

A brake rotor having first and second panels and first and second sets of mounting flanges. The first set of mounting flanges may extend from the first panel and may be spaced apart from the second panel. The second set of mounting flanges may extend from the second panel and may be spaced apart from the first set of mounting flanges.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for designing lattice structures for heat dissipating devices include a method including: obtaining a 3D model of a device that passes a fluid through an internal structure of the device, including a lattice for the internal structure; performing computational fluid dynamics simulation using the 3D model to generate fluid turbulence data that indicates fluid flows through the lattice for the internal structure; modifying a first density in accordance with the fluid turbulence data; performing computational structural simulation using the 3D model and defined loading condition(s) for the device to generate structural integrity data that indicates a structural weakness of the device; modifying a second density in accordance with the structural integrity data; and providing the 3D model of the device, the 3D model including the modified first density and the modified second density.