Abstract: A spring of a caliper of a brake disc is capable of avoiding knocking of the pad against the rests of the caliper body and suitable to be arranged astride a disc of a brake disc. The spring includes a sheared and bent laminar body and is mounted on a caliper between an edge of a support plate of a pad, and at least one wall of a caliper body. The laminar body includes a tab portion bent as a spring, a first hooking portion having at least one C-shaped portion to be arranged astride the plate edge, and a second hooking portion resting on a radially outer portion of the plate edge.

Abstract: A cable-pulling actuation system for a parking brake having a body that houses a motor, a tie rod, suitable to actuate along an actuation direction, in correspondence of a first end, an actuating member of a drum brake, and a transmission that operatively connects the motor to a second end of the tie rod. The second end of the tie rod is integral in translation with a first screw, having a first thread with a first pitch. The first screw is engaged, through the first thread, in a second screw. The second screw comprises a second thread with a second pitch, through which is in turn engaged in a nut screw integral with the body, the second thread being opposite to the first thread. The second screw being actuated in rotation by the transmission.

Abstract: A braking device for a vehicle capable of resulting in an increased driving comfort is provided. The braking device may have a brake disc of a disc brake for rotating about a rotation axis, in which the disc may have a disc body. The disc body may have a braking band having opposite braking surfaces and at least one connection portion for connecting the disc to a connection device of a vehicle associable with the braking device. The braking band defines an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis of the brake disc, a radial direction orthogonal to the axial direction and a tangential or circumferential direction orthogonal both to the axial direction and to the radial direction. The connection portion is connected to the braking band by connecting elements, the connecting elements being a plurality of elements equally spaced apart in circumferential direction.

Abstract: A preform for making a component of a braking system having a fibre-reinforced ceramic composite material, obtained by forming and subsequent pyrolysis of a pre-preg is described. Also described is a component of a braking system made wholly or in part from the preform, and a method for making a preform in a fibre-reinforced ceramic composite material.

Abstract: An assembly (1) for a disc brake caliper (100), in which, when said caliper (101) is arranged astride a disc (3) of a disc brake (100) having a defined rotation axis (C), said assembly (1) defines an axial direction (X-X) parallel to said rotation axis (C), a radial direction (R-R) orthogonal to said axial direction (X-X) and a tangential or circumferential direction (T-T) orthogonal to both the axial direction (X-X) and the radial direction (R-R), said assembly (1) comprises: a first pad (10) comprising a friction material (12), defining a friction surface, and a support plate (13) which supports said friction material (12) and is adapted to release the braking action onto the caliper (101) of the disc brake (100), in which said support plate (13) comprises at least one lateral projection (14) which extends in a direction substantially coplanar to the plate (13) and is placed at an end of the support plate (13), and in which said at least one lateral projection (14) is adapted to be accommodated in a pock

Abstract: A pad for a brake caliper for a disc brake of a vehicle having a caliper body and a brake disc adapted to abut against a braking band of the brake disc. The pad has at least one plate and one friction material supported by the plate. The plate has a first side and a second side arranged at opposite tangential ends of the plate. The plate also has at least a first side ear and at least a second side ear. The two ears are each provided with slots. The two slots are adapted to accommodate corresponding associable pins mounted to the caliper body with clearance.

Abstract: A cable-pulling actuation system for a parking brake having a body that houses a motor, a tie rod, suitable to actuate along an actuation direction, in correspondence of a first end, an actuating member of a drum brake, and a transmission that operatively connects the motor to a second end of the tie rod. The second end of the tie rod is integral in translation with a first screw, having a first thread with a first pitch. The first screw is engaged, through the first thread, in a second screw. The second screw comprises a second thread with a second pitch, through which is in turn engaged in a nut screw integral with the body, the second thread being opposite to the first thread. The second screw being actuated in rotation by the transmission.

Abstract: A brake disc assembly may have a brake band, a bell, and at least one connecting device, which forms a connection between the brake band and the bell. The connecting device and the bell cooperate by delimiting at least one axial band seat where the brake band may slide in an axial direction of a predetermined axial stroke. The bell may have at least a first end-of-stroke surface which forms a first abutment surface in the axial direction for the brake band. The connecting device may have a second end-of-stroke surface, opposite to said first end-of-stroke surface, which forms a second opposite abutment surface in the axial direction for the brake band.

Abstract: A brake caliper and a pad assembly may have a pad retention device securely attached to a brake pad. The brake caliper may have an actuation device of movement and application of a braking action, along a thrust direction, to the brake pad to abut it against a braking surface of a disc. The actuation device may have an actuation device seat having a seat opening, where the seat receives a retention device coupling portion of the retention device through the seat opening. The assembly may have a coupling ring accommodated in the seat, leaving a radial clearance, free to move in a radial direction and leaving an axial clearance, free to move in an axial direction parallel to the thrust device thrust direction and limited in its stroke so as not to escape from the seat during use.

Abstract: A braking system for vehicles includes a hydraulic actuator unit operatively connected to at least one braking device, so as to control its actuation by a first hydraulic circuit at a first working pressure. The hydraulic actuator unit includes at least one manual actuator for a user to allow the user to supply the braking system with a braking request. A power generation unit is operatively connected to the hydraulic actuator unit by a second hydraulic circuit at a second working pressure. An actuated brake pump is connected in input to the second hydraulic circuit of the power generation unit to be actuated, and operatively connected, in output, to the first hydraulic circuit for actuation of the at least one braking device. The first and the second hydraulic circuits are supplied with different hydraulic fluids fluidically separate from each other.

Abstract: A braking system for vehicles having a master cylinder, and at least one braking device. The master cylinder may be provided with a first and a second output circuit, containing respectively a first and second brake fluid. The first output circuit may be fluidically connected to a braking simulator and the second output circuit may be fluidically connected to the at least one braking device for its actuation. An automatic hydraulic actuation unit operatively connected to the master cylinder by a hydraulic actuation circuit traversed by an actuation fluid distinct from the first and second brake fluid may be provided. A processing and control unit of the system that supervises the operation of the braking systems may also be provided.

Abstract: A valve assembly for a braking system having a master cylinder side opening, at least one caliper side opening, and at least one valve pipe, connecting the master cylinder side opening and the caliper side opening. A shutter element has a shutter body movable with respect to the valve body. When the shutter body is in a valve closing position, it interrupts a at least one main fluid passage and defines a master cylinder side pipe stretch facing a master cylinder side opening and a caliper side pipe stretch facing a caliper side opening in the valve pipe. The shutter body at least partially delimits at least one secondary fluid passage, so that, when the shutter body is in a valve closing position, the master cylinder side pipe stretch is in fluid communication with the caliper side pipe stretch only through the secondary fluid passage.

Abstract: An electromechanical brake caliper (9) includes a caliper body (10) and an electromechanical actuator (11). The electromechanical actuator includes a screw (14) and a nut screw (16) coupled to it, so that the nut screw (16) engages a movable thrust element (18, 32) by coupling surfaces (C, C? and CIV) that cooperate with each other in the thrust relationship. This configuration allows oscillation of the relative nut screw (16) with respect to the movable thrust element (18, 32) about a single transverse axis (k), impeding the relative rotation between the nut screw (16) and the piston (18) about a longitudinal axis (y) of the thrust element.

Abstract: An electric motor assembly for a motor vehicle and brake has an engine cartridge with a stator connected to an engine casing. The engine cartridge also has a rotor connected to a wheel shaft. The assembly also has a disc of a disc brake connected to the wheel shaft. The assembly also has a disc brake caliper arranged astride the disc and connected to the engine casing.

Abstract: A heat shield element for a brake caliper of a disc brake, capable of providing complete radial and axial protection for the brake caliper, which is arranged straddling a disc brake disc and having a vehicle-side elongated portion and an opposite wheel-side elongated portion connected to each other by at least one caliper bridge. The element has a heat shield element body having at least two opposite snap engagement tongues adapted to snap-engage a portion of the brake caliper to interpose the heat shield element body between the brake caliper and the disc brake disc and support the heat shield element engaged with the brake caliper.

Abstract: A caliper body for a disc brake is described. The caliper body is adapted to straddle an associable brake disc. The caliper body may have a first elongated portion, or a vehicle-side elongated portion, at least partially adapted to face the first braking surface. The caliper body may also have a second elongated portion, or wheel-side elongated portion, opposite to the first elongated portion and at least partially adapted to face the second braking surface. At least one part of the first elongated portion has at least a first module and at least one part of the second elongated portion has at least a second module. The first module and the second module are obtained by at least one non-additive manufacturing technique.

Abstract: A pad for a disc brake has a support plate and a friction material. The support plate has at least one first plate and at least one second plate. The first plate is a single-piece and has a flat piston support surface suitable for facing at least one thrust device. The first plate also has a first friction surface opposite the piston support surface and is at least partially suitable for facing the friction material. The at least one second plate is suitable for being interposed between the at least one first plate and the friction material. The at least one second plate is connected to the first plate in a plurality of junction points which are separate from one another. The at least one second plate extends over at least one portion of the friction surface of the at least one first plate delimited by a single closed perimeter.

Abstract: A braking system for vehicles comprising a pilot pump provided with a manual actuation means, the pilot pump being fluidically connected to a hydraulic actuator device in turn operatively connected to a braking device associated with a wheel of said vehicle, wherein the hydraulic actuator device delimits a first and a second actuation chamber fluidically separated by a movable septum along an axial direction X-X, the first actuation chamber containing fluid pressurized by the pilot pump, the second actuation chamber being filled with fluid under pressure and being provided with a delivery duct fluidically connected to said braking device.

Abstract: A locking device of an electromechanically-operated brake caliper for a disc brake, comprising a ratchet comprising a rotating element having at least one first cam and one first follower pushed elastically against said rotating element, configured to act in conjunction with said at least one first cam to allow the rotation of the rotating element in a first direction of rotation, and to prevent the rotation of the rotating element in a second direction of rotation, opposite to said first direction of rotation; a selector element sliding between a first selector element position and a second selector element position, said selector element being adapted to operate said first follower so that, in said first selector element position, said selector element keeps said first follower in a disengaged position away from the rotating element in which the application of a parking braking action is prevented, and so that, in said second selector element position, the selector element keeps said first follower in an en