Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (uk) Limited

Sanjeev Kulkarni

Arun Kumar

Martin Pors Taylor

Paul Roberts

Kishan Kumar Udupi

Jason Morris

Norman Breakwell

Darshan Pateel

Sean Cleary

Refaat Malki

Mark Anthony Norman

Matthew McGinn

Peter Kerslake Gibbens

Vadiraj Pavaman

Pradeep D Mirji

Kishan Kumar

Mathew Morris

Paul Thomas

Dhananjaya Raveendrappa

Arvinash Ullagaddi

Avinash Ullagaddi

Peter Gibbens

A caliper guide assembly having a guide pin, a guide bore, a cap, and a sensor arrangement. The guide bore is arranged to receive the guide pin. The cap may be secured to an open end of the guide bore proximate a free end of the guide pin. The sensor arrangement may include a first sensor component that is configured to provide an output indicative of relative axial displacement between a first sensor component and a second sensor component.

Caliper guide assembly

A brake assembly including an operating shaft, a yoke, and a rotating element. The rotating element bearing may be positioned between a convex bearing surface of the operating shaft and a concave bearing surface of the yoke such that the rotating element bearing may be configured to move relative to the operating shaft and relative to the yoke during actuation of the brake.

Disc brake assembly

An operating shaft and an actuation mechanism for a disc brake. The actuation mechanism may include a wear adjuster mechanism and the operating shaft. The operating shaft may include opposed pairs of arcuate surfaces arranged with offset axes of rotation and a recess therebetween for accommodating a portion of the wear adjuster mechanism.

Actuation mechanism

A disc brake that includes a housing, a piston, and a manual adjuster apparatus. The piston may be mounted within the housing and may have a rotatable portion defining an axis of rotation. The manual adjuster apparatus may be drivingly connected to the rotatable portion and may have a first element and a universal joint drivingly connecting the first element to the rotatable portion such that the first element extends away from the rotatable portion at an angle that is oblique to the axis of rotation.

Disc brake

A disc brake assembly having a carrier having a first formation on an inboard surface thereof and a caliper slideably mounted to the carrier having a second formation that is proximate to the first formation in use. The relative positions of the first formation and the second formation may be indicative of an amount of wear of a brake friction element and/or a rotor.

A disc brake assembly includes a brake pad having a first pad abutment spaced from a second pad abutment and a third pad abutment positioned between the first pad abutment and the second pad abutment. An actuator is operable to apply a force to the brake pad to apply the brake. The disc brake assembly has a first reaction abutment facing the first pad abutment, a second reaction abutment facing the second pad abutment, and a third reaction abutment facing the third pad abutment. The first, second and third pad abutments are operable to transfer brake pad drag torque to the first, second and third reaction abutments respectively. The disc brake is configured such that under no load conditions with the third pad abutment engaging the third reaction abutment, the first pad abutment is spaced from the first reaction abutment.

Brake assembly

A disc brake includes a brake disc, a sliding caliper, a single piston, and a brake pad carrier comprising a leading part and a trailing part. The brake pad carrier includes mounting features for securing the brake pad carrier to an associated structure of a vehicle. The mounting features define a mounting side and a non-mounting side of the brake. A mounting side brake pad comprises mounting side friction material and a non-mounting side brake pad comprising non-mounting side friction material. The center of pressure of the non-mounting side friction material is circumferentially aligned with the piston and the center of pressure of the mounting side friction material is offset in relation to the piston towards the leading part of the brake pad carrier.

A disc brake includes an actuation mechanism, and first and second brake pad mounting structures to be located, in use, adjacent opposing inboard and outboard faces, respectively, of a brake rotor to be braked. The disc brake further includes first and second brake pads located by the first and second mounting structures, respectively, such that upon application of the actuation mechanism, the brake pads clamp the brake rotor, and brake torque is reacted by the brake pad mounting structures. The first brake pad has a different functional requirement to the second brake pad such that fitment of the first brake pad in the second brake pad mounting structure and/or the second brake pad in the first brake pad mounting structure impairs the safety, functionality or durability of the brake. To prevent or inhibit such incorrect fitting, the first brake pad includes on a peripheral face or a rear face thereof a first formation in such a location that it may only be successfully fitted in the first brake pad mounting structure and only successfully fitted in the correct orientation with the brake fully assembled. The second brake pad includes a second formation different from the first formation such that it may only be successfully fitted in the second brake pad mounting structure and only successfully fitted in the correct orientation with the brake fully assembled.

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Bengaluru, India

Sanjeev Kulkarni