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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2004
Applicant:
Thomas W. O'rourke, Boulder, CO (US);
Inventor:
Thomas W. O'Rourke, Boulder, CO (US);
Assignee:
Ingalls Engineering Company, Inc., Louisville, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 7/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Vanes positioned immediately adjacent the swept area of a moving friction brake rotor induce a flow of air over the rotor by displacing the boundary layer of gases from the rotor surface and conducting such layer along the intercepting surface of the vane, and thus inducing a flow of cooler air over the rotor. Under heavy braking, friction pad particles and substantial quantities of thermal energy in the superheated gases of the boundary layer are removed by the vanes.