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| 20100133050 | PISTON-SIDE BRAKE SHIM - The present invention is a shim or shim assembly that clips onto a brake caliper piston. It is generally a rimmed round (disc or annular) shape to cap the edges of the caliper piston and includes surface features for lubrication, and improved fitting. Reduced noise from frictional fretting is provided along with protection of piston's outer rim. Reduced thermal transfer into the piston is also provided. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20120031718 | MODULAR BRAKE PAD - A modular brake pad is provided. The pad is made up of a brake backing plate and at least one pre-molded friction element. The friction element is releasably attached to the backing plate using an arrangement of guide rails. The friction element may also be locked to the plate by means of a releasable locking pin that extends through the plate into the friction element. An optional intermediary shim portion can also be provided on the friction element. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20130152654 | APPARATUS FOR TEXTURING THE SURFACE OF A BRAKE PLATE - An apparatus is provided for texturing the surface of a brake plate has three die plates and spring supports therebetween. A toothed tooling mounts to the top die plate above an anvil on the centre die plate both of which ride on posts held by the lower die plate. The toothed tooling comprises multiple blades each with multiple replaceable toothed inserts are held in a cartridge arrangement. The anvil receives brake plates from a separately supported plate feed mechanism with greatly reduced reciprocating mass. The complete die set can be set up on the bench and inserted ready to use in any style of press where the press ram contacts the upper die plate. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130170058 | SOLAR COLLECTOR - A solar collector array is disclosed. The array has a plurality of thin walled dishes interconnected by unitary webbing. The dishes and the webbing are formed from a single metallic sheet. Each dish is pressed into a symmetric parabolic surface that concentrates incident light to a position in front of the dish. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130341135 | BRAKE BACKING PLATE WITH STEP-CHAMFER - A brake plate is provided that has a substantially planar metallic body with a first friction facing surface, a second opposing caliper facing surface, a pair of relatively long edges, and a pair of relatively short edges. At least one of the long edges has a step-chamfer. | 12-26-2013 |
| 20150053517 | COMPOSITE DISC BRAKE BACKING PLATE - A brake backing plate is provided in which a non-compressible core material is sandwiched between two sheet metal stampings to make a lightweight, composite brake backing plate. Each of the stampings has a textured face with a plurality of integrally formed piercing members. By rolling or pressing, the piercing members of the textured faces are fully embedded in the core material, and thus lock the stampings and the core material together. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150086750 | BULK TEXTURED MATERIAL SHEETING - A process is provided for making bulk textured material sheeting. As a continuous supply of flat material sheeting is fed, the sheeting is repeatedly impacted with toothed knives, each knife creating a row of raised and generally pointed structures on the sheeting to texture the sheeting. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150099093 | PROCESS FOR MAKING A LAMINATED SHEET - A process is provided for making stiff, lightweight laminate materials. At least one sheet of textured lamina having raised pointed structures is forced against a softer plain lamina so as to embed the structures therein. The pointed structures raised from grooves carved into the surface of the sheet material by means of a set of teeth carried on a knife element. The pointed structures may pierce through the softer lamina such that the protruding tips may be bent over or clinched to prevent their easy withdrawal. Two such texturized lamina may be used to sandwich and pierce through the softer lamina and are co-clinched by the other. In this way a light and stiff laminate is created. | 04-09-2015 |
