Cooper Industries, Inc.

Wagner Electric Corporation

Moog Automotive Products, Inc.

Yongbin Yuan

Stanley Frank Kulis, Jr

Timothy Franklin Merkel

An improved reinforced friction material is comprised of a cured friction material mixture of friction particles, filler particles, and binder particles, and has a embedded honeycomb core reinforcement whose individual cells are filled with and bonded at the cell walls to the cured friction material mixture by a novel manufacturing method.

Reinforced friction material

Evaluation apparatus for detecting the onset parameters of friction, wear and groan and squeal noise characteristics associated with a specimen of a particular brake friction material composition is provided with a movable apparatus table which carries both a variable-speed electric motor that drives a brake rotor and that has a near-zero speed capability and a reversible electric motor that may be selectively and independently actuated to advance the brake rotor into friction contact with a friction material specimen and with a normal-force that correlates to the output torque of the reversible electric motor.

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Winchester, VA, United States of America

Yongbin Yuan