Abstract: The invention provides for a brake pad apparatus for connecting to a brake assembly of a motor vehicle. The brake pad apparatus includes a backing plate that extends along a first plane and has an inside surface and an outside surface. A liner is connected to the inside surface of the backing plate for contacting the rotor for creating a frictional force against the rotor to slow the motor vehicle. An insulating layer is connected to the outside surface of the backing plate for providing heat and noise insulation during contact of the liner against the rotor. At least one projection extends from the outside surface of the backing plate through the insulating layer, and past the insulating layer for being engaged by a pressing member of the brake assembly for compressing the liner against the rotor of the brake assembly.

Abstract: An anti-roll structure suitable for blocking rolling objects. The anti-roll structure comprises a first support element and a second support element, which consist in, respectively, a lying surface adapted to be placed on a bearing plane and, parallel to the said bearing plane, and a support surface, opposite to the lying surface and inclined with respect to the said lying surface. A junction element is positioned so that it lies on a plane perpendicular to the lying surface and supporting surface. The first and second support element can be placed at a predefined angle with respect to each other by means of the junction element.

Abstract: A vehicular dust cover assembly including: an upper support; a bound stopper and a dust cover assembled to the upper support; and an engaging step provided on an outer circumferential surface of the bound stopper. A top end part of the dust cover is externally fit to a top end part of the bound stopper. The upper support includes an outer metal fitting having a fitting recess within which the top end part of the bound stopper is fit and assembled. An engaging projection is provided projecting on an inner surface of the fitting recess to be engaged with the engaging step with the dust cover interposed therebetween. The bound stopper includes an axial pushing operation surface exposed facing axially downward which is provided at a lower side than the engaging step and at a position inside the fitting recess.

Abstract: An open core crash pad includes a core and a skin abutting the core to include a forming space therebetween. A foaming layer is foam-formed by injecting a foam liquid into the forming space. A foam tape prevents an overflow of the foam liquid. The skin includes a body portion and a distal end which extends from the body portion in parallel with the core. The core comprises a protrusion protruding toward the skin and formed at which the core and the distal end contact.

Abstract: A spring-damper system for use in bearings or as a damper, in particular as a spring-damper system in active engine bearings includes a coupling device which can be coupled to a load and to a supporting device at a bearing or damping point, in order to mount the load in such a way that it can vibrate on the supporting device. The coupling device is designed to transmit a load input generated by the load substantially without loss to a spring-damper device and to absorb a reaction thereto by the spring-damper device and to feed said reaction back to the load, in order to counteract the load input in a vibration-damping fashion. In this context, the spring-damper device can be arranged and/or is arranged spatially separate from the bearing or damping point.

Abstract: Provided is a brake hydraulic device for a vehicle, including: a base body having a hydraulic pressure path for brake fluid formed therein; an electromagnetic valve; an electromagnetic coil; a pressure sensor; and a housing attached to the outer surface of the base body. The housing includes a peripheral wall part and an intermediate wall part partitioning a space inside the peripheral wall part into a front side and a rear side. A plurality of bus bars on the coil side to be electrically connected to the electromagnetic coil, and a plurality of bus bars on the sensor side to be electrically connected to the pressure sensor are embedded in the intermediate wall part. A hierarchy region where the bus bars on the coil side and the bus bars on the sensor side are positioned in a hierarchy state with each other in the front-rear direction is provided.

Abstract: A back-plate composition of the present invention is a composition for forming a back plate of a brake pad, the brake pad having a friction material and the back plate bonded to the friction material. The back-plate composition includes a resin, a plurality of first fibers and a plurality of second fibers having an average length shorter than an average length of the first fibers. In the case where the average length of the first fibers is “L1” [?m] and the average length of the second fibers is “L2” [?m], “L2”/“L1” is in the range of 0.001 to 0.5. This makes it possible to provide a back-plate composition having excellent moldability, as well as a back plate formed of the back-plate composition, a brake pad including the back-plate and a caliper device provided with the brake pad.

Abstract: An adjusting device includes a connecting member having a chamber. The connecting member further includes first and second openings defined in two ends thereof and communicated with the chamber. The connecting member further includes a first assembling portion in the chamber and a threaded portion in the second opening. A through-hole extends from an inner periphery through an outer periphery of the connecting member and communicates with the chamber. An adjusting member includes a pivotal end having a second assembling portion for assembling with the first assembling portion. The adjusting member further includes a passage having first and second openings respectively in two ends thereof. The first opening of the adjusting member is located in the pivotal end. A sealing cap is in threading connection with the threaded portion. A damper and a damp adjustment cylinder can be coupled to the adjusting device to form a vehicular shock absorber.

Abstract: Provided are a car shock absorber, which is installed at a connection road exit junction of a road, such as a tunnel of the road, an underground entrance, and a freeway exit ramp, or at positions where car accidents are concerned, such as piers, abutments, and fronts of tollgates, so as to prevent damage of a car and casualties that may occur when the car collides with the car shock absorber, and a car shock absorbing device using the same. Damage of a car and casualties that may occur when the car collides with the car shock absorber and the car shock absorbing device, can be prevented, and even when the car collides with the car shock absorber and the car shock absorbing device, driving of another car is not disturbed so that the occurrence of an accident can be prevented.

Abstract: A brake booster and related method for its operation for a vehicle, having a master brake cylinder having a first primary piston chamber that is variable using an adjustable first primary piston component, a braking force transmission component, using which at least one driver braking force is transmittable by the adjustable first primary piston component contacted by the braking force transmission component, and an adjustable second primary piston component, the master brake cylinder having a second primary piston chamber that is variable using the adjustable second primary piston component, and the brake booster has a booster force transmission component, using which a booster force from the actuator device is transmittable at least partially to the adjustable second primary piston component contacted by the booster force transmission component, and the braking force transmission component in its force-free initial position is distanced by a first free play from the first primary piston component and/or the

Abstract: A rotary damper includes a housing having an outer cylinder, an inner cylinder coaxially disposed inside the outer cylinder, and a bottom plate closing one end side of the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder, to form an annular liquid chamber with a viscous fluid therein, and a rotor including a cylindrical blade portion rotatably received in the liquid chamber. An annular locking groove extends circumferentially in a first portion at an outer peripheral surface of the inner cylinder, or a second portion facing the first portion on an inner peripheral surface of the blade portion. A locking convex portion projects from the other of the first portion or the second portion, and locked in the locking groove. An annular inside seal member is interposed between the inner cylinder and the blade portion, and an annular outside seal member is interposed between the outer cylinder and the blade portion.

Abstract: A safety brake system for a trailer comprises a brake unit to brake the trailer. An actuation unit comprises a mount secured to a front end of the trailer. A brake interface is operatively supported by the mount for displacement with respect to the trailer. The brake interface is displaceable toward a deactivation state in which the brake interface releases the brake unit from braking the trailer. A probe is operatively supported by the mount for displacement with respect to the trailer, the probe being displaceable between a hitching state in which the probe is adapted to contact the hitch of a vehicle, and a blocking state in which the probe blocks a hitch coupler of the trailer to prevent hitching of the trailer to a vehicle A biasing unit biases the probe against the hitch of the trailer in the hitching state and toward the blocking state.

Abstract: A regenerative shock absorber that include a housing and a piston that moves at least partially through the housing when the shock is compressed or extended from a rest position. When the piston moves, hydraulic fluid is pressurized and drives a hydraulic motor. The hydraulic motor, in turn, drives an electric generator that produced electric energy. The electric enemy may be provided to a vehicle, among other things. The regenerative shock absorber may also provide ride performance that comparable to or exceeds that of conventional shock absorbers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a disc brake for an aircraft wheel, comprising friction discs (20,30), including rotor discs and stator discs, a structure comprising a torsion tube (11) on which the discs are fitted, a rear plate (12) which is located at one end of the tube, and a support (13) for braking actuators (14,15) at another end of the tube, the actuators being able to be selectively activated in order to apply a pressing force to the discs. According to the invention, the discs are separated into two groups, including a first group (20) which can be used alone for taxiing braking operations, and a second group (30) which can be used alone or in conjunction with the first group for take-off/landing braking operations.

Abstract: An energy absorbing fitting is constructed to absorb tension, shear and compression loads at a joint between two composite material beams of a composite material frame. The fitting is constructed with a band of composite material having an inverted U-shape, a panel of composite material having a U-shaped cross-section configuration that is assembled into the inverted U-shaped configuration of the band, and a sheet of composite material having an inverted L-shape configuration that is secured to the band and to the panel. The fitting is positioned at the intersection of the beams and is secured to the joint between the beams, thereby reinforcing the joint against tension, shear and compression loads.

Abstract: Provided is a vibration control device, which enables the vibrations of a vibrating body, such as a rotary machine, to automatically be suppressed, without installing a vibration detection sensor on the vibration control device or vibrating body, and without controlling the rotational speed or phase of the vibration control device. The vibration control device (1), which is installed on a vibrating body (2) and controls the vibrations of the vibrating body (2), comprises a rotating shaft (11), a mass body (12) that is fixed to the rotating shaft (11), and an activation apparatus (13) that adds the power of a rotational motion, which is centered on the rotating shaft (11), to the mass body (12).

Abstract: Provided are a rolling bearing and a suspension apparatus for an automobile enhanced in stiffness. To do so, in a rolling bearing and a suspension apparatus for an automobile according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an upper cover's upward surface in contact with an upper case and an upper cover's peripheral surface in contact with the upper case are orthogonal to each other, and a length of the upward surface in a radial direction is longer than a length of the peripheral surface in a vertical direction.

Abstract: Leaf springs, and methods of manufacturing thereof, having first and second sections, spaced apart along the length of said leaf spring, said sections are through hardened and tempered to achieve, respectively different levels of finished through hardness, are disclosed.

Abstract: A hidden hydraulic structure of a bike disc brake is integrally disposed with a bike body tube. The hidden hydraulic structure of the bike disc brake includes a base, a piston and a linking member. The base includes an oil circuit. The piston is located in the base for controlling a pressure of the oil circuit. The piston is actuated by the linking member. Wherein a shape of the base is corresponded to a shape of the bike body tube, and the base is connected with the bike body tube to form a portion of the bike body tube, thereby increasing strength of the bike body tube.

Abstract: A method for dimensioning a component of a braking system; the braking system having at least two brake-circuit partial circuits; each brake-circuit partial circuit having at least one pump element for building up a brake-circuit pressure and/or for returning brake-circuit fluid in an ABS case, the pump elements of the at least two brake-circuit partial circuits being operable using a motor element; and the at least two brake-circuit partial circuits being separable using a separating element, so that different brake-circuit pressures may be created in the at least two brake-circuit partial circuits.