An apparatus for thermal insulation on an actuating apparatus, which can be loaded with a pressure medium, of a disk brake having a piston which slides in a cylinder for the axial displacement of the brake linings against a brake disk, in particular a partially lined disk brake having an insulation body made from non-thermally conducting/poorly thermally conducting material for the insulation of the components of the actuating apparatus with respect to a brake lining. It is possible for a substantially circularly annular, metallic brake lining to be inserted into an insulation body which is made from ceramic material and separates the piston from the brake lining in a thermally insulating manner. The insulation body is configured with side faces which adjoin the circularly annular brake contact face so as to run toward the annular circumferential face in a convexly rounded manner in the direction of the piston.

The present disclosure relates to mechanical braking mechanisms used in electric motor applications. The present braking mechanisms may be configured as non-back-drivable mechanical brakes and provide immediate braking of the motors. According to one embodiment, a mechanical brake assembly for an electric motor may include a female disk including a groove and an abutment and a male disk including a projection, the male disk being in mechanical communication with a rotor of the electric motor. When the electric motor is energized, the projection of the male disk is configured to rotate with the rotation of the rotor of the electric motor, but when the electric motor is de-energized, the projection of the male disk is configured to travel within the groove of the female disk and abut the abutment of the female disk, thereby reducing the rotation of the rotor of the electric motor.

A compensating coupling connects a first shaft to a second shaft along an axis of rotation. The compensating coupling has a first coupling body connected to an end of the first shaft and a second coupling body connected to an end of the second shaft. At least one elastic coupling element has a longitudinal axis lying in a plane that is oriented perpendicularly to the axis of rotation. The two coupling bodies are arranged with respect to one another to form a three-dimensional coupling region in which the elastic coupling element is arranged. The elastic coupling element is connected to the two coupling bodies such that the two coupling bodies are displaceable in the radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation. The elastic coupling element is displaceable in the axial direction with respect to the axis of rotation.

A coupling assembly for transmitting rotational forces from a driving shaft to a driven shaft, the driving and driven shafts having teeth. The coupling assembly includes a first and a second flange, each flange configured to be rotationally fixed onto respective shafts. A pair of resilient shoes are disposed between the flanges. The shoes are configured to be attached to the coupling assembly by a first plurality of fasteners that are fixed to the first flange and extend through the shoes to connect the shoes to the first flange and a second plurality of fasteners are fixed to the second flange and extend through the shoes to connect the shoes to the second flange.

Various systems, devices, and methods for a vehicle smart brake pad comprising a sensor such as a force sensing device, and a production process thereof. For example, a production process of a vehicle brake pad can include the following steps in time sequence: applying an electrical circuit a support plate; screen printing on the electrical circuit of at least a first electrode; screen printing on the at least first electrode of a sheet of piezoelectric material; screen printing on the sheet of at least a second electrode; applying a friction pad on the support plate; and bulk polarizing the sheet of piezoelectric material by a supply of power to the at least first and second electrodes.

Method and plant for manufacturing braking elements such as vehicle brake pads. The plant can comprise a first station that applies an adhesive to a first face of a metallic element; a second station that applies to the first face of the metallic element a block of friction material; a checking station that verifies the presence of the adhesive by detecting the gray level of a plurality of points of at least one zone of the first face; and a processing unit that compares the gray level detected for each point with a first threshold value, counts the number of points that have a gray level that satisfies a relationship (which is a function of the threshold value,) and compares such a value with a second threshold value to discard those metallic elements for which the percentage calculated does not correspond to the second threshold value.

A manufacturing process may comprise: stacking a plurality of friction discs together, each friction disc comprising a lug defining a surface; and depositing a composition to bond to the surface of a first friction disc in the plurality of friction discs to form a wear pad defining a wear surface.

The present disclosure describes a brake system for a track section of a linear motor system. The brake system includes a housing receiving a brake flag of a mover and a first brake pad disposed within the housing and having a first tapered surface. The brake system also includes a second brake pad disposed within the housing and having a second tapered surface and a wedge disposed within the housing and comprising a third tapered surface. The brake system also includes an actuator that moves the wedge, wherein movement of the activation wedge causes the first brake pad to move and causes the second brake pad to move.

A spreader unit for a drum brake is provided with a readjustment device which ensures that the clearance remains substantially constant even in the case of wear on the brake linings. The readjustment device is arranged between actuating pistons and changes the spacing of the actuating pistons in at least one readjustment step when an actuating travel of the first and second brake shoe holders has exceeded a travel setpoint value. A thermally actuable blocking device mechanically prevents the execution of the readjustment step by the readjustment device at a temperature above a temperature setpoint value

The brake pad for a disk brake includes a lining and a plate. The lining includes:—a friction face and a fastening face;—a rear edge;—an inner edge and an outer edge; and—a collection groove extending into the inner edge or outer edge. The plate has a hole, the hole being connected to a vacuum source via communication element. The lining has a rear region including the rear edge and the collection groove, and a chamfered portion such that an area of a friction surface of the rear region increases when a thickness of the rear region decreases, the collection groove being located at a distance from a free surface of the chamfered portion and having a cross-section which extends obliquely towards the free surface of the chamfered portion.