Brembo S.p.a.

Freni Brembo S.p.a.

Alberto Bosis

Mauro Mambretti

Gianluigi Maronati

Tomasz Woloszyn

Andrea Mecocci

Alberto Pendesini

Marco Radaelli

Giuseppe Spigapiena

Filippo Cornara

Raffaele Milanese

A ventilated brake rotor rotationally associated with a vehicle element to be braked, having a rotation axis and defining an axial direction, parallel to or coinciding with the rotation axis, a radial direction perpendicular to the axial direction and a circumferential direction, perpendicular to both the axial and radial directions, has a cup-shaped body having at least one ventilation opening passing through a cup-shaped body thickness to allow passage of a cooling fluid for cooling the ventilated brake rotor, at least one front annular portion for connecting the ventilated brake rotor to the vehicle element to be braked, and a side portion extending from the at least one front annular portion at least in the axial direction. A protective element shields the at least one ventilation opening preventing foreign bodies from entering into the cup-shaped body and allowing the cooling fluid to cross the at least one ventilation opening.

Ventilated brake rotor

An assembly has two pads having a support plate and a friction material coating, each pad being accommodated in a pocket of a caliper and positionable on a side of a brake disc. At least one spring applies an elastic bias on the pads so as to elastically bias the pads away from the brake disc. The support plate has a plate coupling portion having an inner lower edge, facing the brake disc in a radially inward direction or towards the rotation axis, an inner upper edge, facing the brake disc in a radially outward direction or opposite to the rotation axis, the inner upper edge continuing on a direct upper surface according to the axial direction (A-A), forming an upper spring-coupling plate portion edge. The spring is always in contact exclusively with the inner lower edge and the upper spring-coupling plate portion edge.

Assembly of at least two brake pads and at least one spring

An assembly () for detecting the wear of a brake pad of a disk brake, wherein said assembly comprises at least one sensor body () and at least one spring (), said assembly being suitable for cooperating with said pad () which comprises a support plate (), suitable for being supported by the disk brake, and to which there is associated friction material (), suitable for to coming into contact with braking surfaces of a disk-brake disk, and wherein said at least one sensor body () is coupled geometrically to said support plate (), said at least one spring () surrounding said at least one sensor body () so that said at least one spring () is positioned in said geometric coupling between said at least one sensor body () and said plate () and presenting projections () for the snap-coupling to said support plate (), and wherein said at least one spring () has indentations () bent towards the at least one sensor body () for constraining said at least one spring () to said at least one sensor body (), wherein said indentations () comprise end or terminal sections () of the spring with at least one of their edges () facing towards the at least one body ().

Wear sensor

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Alberto Bosis