Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

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Henkel Ag & Company, Kgaa

Ford-Werke Gmbh

Gehring Technologies Gmbh

Gehring Gmbh & Co. Kg

Fagor Ederlan S.coop

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, a Subsidary of Ford Motor Company

Clemens Maria Verpoort

Leander Schramm

Tomasz Pawel Grabiec

Maik Broda

Urban Morawitz

Marc Oliver Rettig

Andreas Wank

Carsten Weber

Gerhard Flores

Mark Robert Silk

Enrico Hauser

Klaus Kaesgen

Jaroslaw Grochowicz

Christian Schmengler

Jan Mehring

Kai Sebastian Kuhlbach

Paul Turner

Ivan Jan Mathieu Ernest Bruggen

Douglas Raymond Martin

Matthew John Zaluzec

Oliver Berkemeier

David James Cook

Stefan Quiring

Paul Zandbergen

Raphael Koch

Richard Fritsche

Bas Van Den Heuvel

Robert Ukropec

Andreas Wagner

Michael Georg Figura

Rudolf Kunze

Torsten Kluge

Christian Rosenkranz

David Harknett

Andreas Wiens

Tobias Abeln

Josef Koepp

Valeri Hartmann

Wolfgang Puetz

Alexander Hitzek

Karin Müller-Roden

Thomas Doerfler

Juergen Wesemann

Thomas Schläfer

Alexander Schwenk

Thomas Wilwers

Jacques Beauvir

Theo Geuecke

Ralph W K Wilton

Barry Griffiths

Spencer James Lindon

Ulrich Weiss

Frank Beck

Annika Krause

Andreas Storz

Eckhard Voss

Abidine Ould-Merzough

Maria Edurne Ochoa De Zabalegui Pereda

Idurre GAZTAÑAGA Gallastegi

Iñaki Landa Sastre

Wolfgang Pütz

Annett Bretschneider

Spencer Lindon

Wolfgang Treutmann

Thomas Dr Dörfler

Inaki Zubeldia Barron

Ricardo Labrador Varea

Wolfgang Kühn

Ivan Bruggen

Tomasz Grabiec

Klaus Käsgen

A method for producing a brake disk for a wheel brake of a land vehicle includes laser depositing a duplex steel anti-corrosion layer to an axial friction side of a main body produced from gray cast iron at a surface speed of more than 10 m/min and applying an anti-abrasion layer to the anti-corrosion layer.

Brake disk and method for producing a brake disk

A process for producing a protective coating on a brake side of a brake disk main element includes using a laser powder build-up welding process. An NbC metal matrix powder or a CrCmetal matrix powder is produced by agglomeration and sintering of NbC particles or CrCparticles with particles of a metallic matrix composed of a stainless steel. During the laser powder build-up welding process, the NbC metal matrix powder or the CrCmetal matrix powder and an aluminum alloy powder is supplied simultaneously to a molten surface region of the brake disk main element which has been melted by a laser.

Process for producing a protective coating on a brake side of a brake disk main element and process for producing a brake disk

The present disclosure relates to a wheel hub unit of a motor vehicle and to a method for producing such a wheel hub unit. The wheel hub unit includes a wheel hub and a contact flange firmly connected to the wheel hub. The contact flange includes a plurality of fastening elements for fastening a wheel rim, as well as a contact surface which is intended to come into mechanical contact, at least in part, with a brake hat of a brake disk when the brake disk is in the mounted state. At least part of the contact surface is provided with a thermally insulating coating. Alternatively, the entire contact surface is provided with the thermally insulating coating.

Wheel hub unit with thermally insulating coating for reducing the thermal load on a wheel bearing

A brake disk for a wheel brake of a land vehicle includes a main body formed from gray cast iron. The main body has at least one axial friction side, at least one anti-corrosion layer applied to the axial friction side, and at least one anti-abrasion layer applied to the anti-corrosion layer. The anti-corrosion layer is a duplex steel layer that provides a cost-effective coating for the brake disk and enables improved corrosion resistance. The anti-abrasion layer is wear resistant and is provided by a SiC material containing at least one oxidic or metallic binder, or by an iron-based alloy having a vanadium carbide reinforcement, a niobium carbide reinforcement, a boron carbide reinforcement, a chromium carbide reinforcement or combinations thereof.

A method including closing upper and lower ends of a bore with upper and lower closure element, respectively; introducing a cathode into the bore; and flowing an electrolyte through an annular space between a wall of the bore an outer surface of the cathode to provide an inner surface of the bore with a wear-resistant surface by electrolysis.

Method and device for producing a wear-resistant surface on a workpiece

Methods are provided for optimizing usage of water harvested or generated on-board a vehicle. An amount of water selected for injection or spraying purposes, as well as an order of water injection responsive to various vehicle operating conditions, is varied based on the amount of water to be delivered, as well as a current water level relative to a predicted future water level. The method allows water usage benefits to be maximized particularly when water availability is limited.

Method and system for water usage on-board a vehicle

At least one coated valve seat region has at least one first layer and a second layer, the second layer is arranged on the first layer, and the first layer and the second layer are different. The first layer and the second layer are each formed by a local thermal deposition welding method. In the case of a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, a valve seat region is formed by depositing a first layer on a substrate material of the valve seat by a laser deposition welding method in one method step and, in a subsequent method step, depositing a second layer on the first layer by a laser deposition welding method. The second layer contains a material which exerts a material hardening effect.

Coated valve seat region of an internal combustion engine

Methods and systems are provided for coatings of a portion of an engine block shaping a combustion chamber. In one example, the engine block includes a first coating with a thermal conductivity higher than a conductivity of the engine block arranged in an upper region of the combustion chamber and a second coating with a thermal conductivity lower than the conductivity of the engine block arranged in a lower region of the combustion chamber, and where the second coating touches the first coating.

Methods and systems for engine block thermal conductivity

The present disclosure relates to a hybrid lightweight brake disk and a method for producing the hybrid lightweight brake disk. The hybrid lightweight brake disk includes a brake chamber and a friction ring with at least one circular, outer friction surface. The method provides a brake chamber that includes a material containing an aluminum-forged alloy and a friction ring having a rapidly solidified aluminum alloy built up on an edge region of the brake chamber by using a laser deposition welding process or a 3D-printing process.

Hybrid lightweight brake disk and production method

An exemplary system for applying a water-repellent coating to the outside of a window of a vehicle includes at least one reservoir for a hydrophobic fluid, at least one wiper with a wiper blade, and a control device. A first line leads from the reservoir to the wiper. The first line extends at least over part of the length of the wiper and has, in the region of the wiper blade, at least one opening by way of which the hydrophobic fluid can be applied to the window. An exemplary method for applying a water-repellent coating to a window of a vehicle, includes, among other things, determining a status of the water-repellent properties of the window with reference to a threshold value of a quantity of water on the outer-facing surface of the window, transmitting a signal from the control device to initiate a communicating of a hydrophobic fluid from a reservoir to a wiper when the status indicates that the quantity of water on the window has reached the threshold value, communicating hydrophobic fluid from the reservoir to the wiper, distributing hydrophobic fluid on the window by means of a movement of the wiper.

Water-repellent coating applying system

A brake disk includes a circular base body having a circumferential outer brake rim, a friction layer in certain regions on the base body and an adhesion-promoter or functional layer arranged over an entirety of the base body.

Process for producing a brake disk and brake disk

The present invention in one or more embodiments provides a roller tool for roughening a friction ring of a brake disk, the roller tool including a roller body including inner and outer ends and a casing surface positioned therebetween, the inner end differing in cross-section dimension than the outer end, the casing surface including thereupon one or more protrusions for contacting the friction ring. The roller tool may further include a support frame supporting the roller body. The support frame may include a short leg connected to the outer end of the roller body and a long leg connected to the inner end of the roller body.

Roller tool for making a brake disk

The invention relates to a device for thermally coating a surface, which has at least one housing (), a cathode (), a primary gas distributor (), a secondary gas distributor (), electrically and thermally acting insulation elements (), and an anode, which is designed as a consumable wire and is guided into a nozzle () by means of a wire guide (), wherein the nozzle () is mounted in a centered manner and has openings () arranged radially in one plane on one of its sides ().

Plasma nozzle for thermal spraying using a consumable wire

The invention relates to a device for thermally coating a surface, which has at least one housing, a cathode, which is designed as a consumable wire and at least one insulation element, wherein the housing has a non-detachable anti-adhesion layer.

Device for thermally coating a surface

The disclosure relates to a brake disk and a method for producing a brake disk. The method may include roughening at least some area(s) of a surface of the main body, forming a metal coating on at least some area(s) of the roughened region of the surface of the main body, applying an enamel slip to at least some area(s) of the surface of the main body, drying the applied enamel slip, and heating the main body to form the enamel coating and to join the metal coating metallurgically to the main body. The brake disk may include a main body having an enamel coating arranged at least in some area(s). A metal coating may additionally be formed on the surface of the main body, at least in some area(s), wherein the metal coating is joined metallurgically to the main body.

Method for producing a brake disk and a brake disk

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Clemens Maria Verpoort