Abstract: A protective cap for floating brake caliper guides may have a cup-like body intended to be associated with a floating brake caliper closing a sliding seat of a guide of the floating caliper. The cup-like body is made of plastic material reinforced with glass fibers.

Abstract: A parking-braking assembly of a motor vehicle is provided. The parking-braking assembly has at least one first brake caliper associated with a wheel of the rear axle of the vehicle and at least one further first brake caliper associated with a wheel of the front axle of the vehicle. All brake calipers of the parking-braking assembly are electro-actuated brake calipers to avoid hydraulic braking devices and circuits on the vehicle. The at least one first brake caliper and the at least one further first brake caliper are at least also parking brake calipers.

Abstract: One embodiment of a braking system for vehicles may have a first brake group and a second brake group. The first and second brake groups may have respective braking devices and electro-hydraulic actuator devices operatively connected to the first braking device. The system may also have an interconnection branch between first and the second hydraulic actuation ducts, provided with a control valve. The system may also have at least one control unit that may be programmed to actuate the control valve to control the ducts and fluidly connect the ducts.

Abstract: A caliper body, pin and an elastic element assembly having a caliper body, a brake pad supporting pin, and an elastic element is provided. The elastic element is fitted on the brake pad supporting pin. The brake pad supporting pin has portions that can be accommodated in a caliper body first housing and in a caliper body second housing made in the caliper body without interfering in an axial direction with surfaces of the caliper body having an extension in a radial direction. The elastic element is accommodated in a first housing first portion of the caliper body first housing. The elastic element abuts against a first housing abutment portion to define a limit stop of the brake pad supporting pin in the caliper body.

Abstract: A pad-holding and pad return spring assembly has a pad-holding spring arranged between a guiding ear of a brake pad and a support, and a pad return spring. The pad-holding spring has a C-shaped section having a central portion adapted to be inserted into a recess of the support and to accommodate the guiding ear. The pad return spring has an anchoring portion connected to the C-shaped section extending in axial direction in a first orientation opposite to a brake disc, and an elastic return arm connected to the anchoring portion and having an elastic return arm end for engaging the brake pad. The elastic return arm develops along an elastic return arm longitudinal direction oriented in the axial direction with a second orientation concordant with the brake disc, is elastically movable between an advanced position and a resting position and in operation is spaced from the pad-holding spring and the anchoring portion.

Abstract: An assembly has two pads having a support plate and a friction material coating, each pad being accommodated in a pocket of a caliper and positionable on a side of a brake disc. At least one spring applies an elastic bias on the pads so as to elastically bias the pads away from the brake disc. The support plate has a plate coupling portion having an inner lower edge, facing the brake disc in a radially inward direction or towards the rotation axis, an inner upper edge, facing the brake disc in a radially outward direction or opposite to the rotation axis, the inner upper edge continuing on a direct upper surface according to the axial direction (A-A), forming an upper spring-coupling plate portion edge. The spring is always in contact exclusively with the inner lower edge and the upper spring-coupling plate portion edge.

Abstract: A brake pad pin and axially constraining elastic element assembly has a supporting pin having a pin body that has a pin first portion having a pin first portion diameter and a pin second portion having a pin second portion diameter greater than the pin first portion diameter. An elastic element has an elastic element inner diameter and an elastic element outer diameter either greater than or equal to the pin second portion diameter. The elastic element inner diameter is smaller than the pin second portion diameter. A pin third portion has a pin third portion stretch having a pin third diameter greater than the elastic element inner diameter. The elastic element has an elastic element inner profile. The pin third portion has a pin third portion profile connecting the pin first and second portions and is biased towards the elastic element. The pin third portion profile is wedged into the elastic element inner profile.

Abstract: A braking band has a first plate and an opposite second plate having inner surfaces delimiting a gap, outer surfaces forming braking surfaces, and a plate body. The plates are joined by connecting elements. At least one plate has at least one ridge projecting into the gap without reaching the opposite plate. The ridge extends from a first connecting element to an adjacent connecting element, and along a circumferential direction, the connecting elements and the ridge being groupable in modules circumferentially distributed along the gap. A first module has three adjacent connecting elements connected by two ridges projecting from the first plate into the gap without reaching the second plate. A second module has three adjacent connecting elements connected by two ridges projecting from the second plate into the gap without reaching the first plate. A third module has at least one connecting element free of ridge connection.

Abstract: A method for making a braking band of a cast iron brake disc with increased resistance to wear and corrosion, may have the following steps: a) making a braking band of a brake disc of cast iron, preferably gray cast iron; b) immersing at least partially the braking band in molten aluminum maintained at a predetermined temperature so that the molten aluminum covers at least a predetermined surface region of the braking band. Forming intermetallic iron-aluminum compounds at a surface layer of the braking band and generating a layer having of intermetallic iron-aluminum compounds in the predetermined surface region of the braking band. The method may also have the steps of c) extracting the braking band from the molten aluminum; and d) removing the aluminum remaining adherent on the braking band after extraction to expose the layer of intermetallic iron-aluminum compounds on the surface.

Abstract: A method for producing a ceramic coating on the surface of an aluminum alloy substrate by means of plasma electrolytic oxidation may include immersing the substrate as an electrode together with a counter-electrode in an alkaline electrolytic aqueous solution. The method may also include the step of applying an electrical potential sufficient to generate spark discharges on the surface of the substrate for a predefined period of treatment time so as to lead to the formation of the coating. The coating may be aluminum oxides and oxides of any alloying agents of the alloy. The electrolytic aqueous solution may have from 9 to 14 g/l of Na2SiO3, from 2.3 to 2.8 g/l of K3PO4, not less than 5 g/l of Na2WO4·2H20, from 0.4 to 1.5 g/l of Na3AlF6, and NaOH at a concentration such that the electrolytic solution has a pH between 11.8 and 12.0, and a conductivity between 9.5 and 10.5 mS/cm.

Abstract: A method for controlling a braking system of a vehicle for the distribution of braking forces for parking the vehicle involves receiving, by a system for controlling the braking system, a first piece of information representative of a first working temperature of a first vehicle front axle, a second piece of information representative of a second working temperature of a second vehicle rear axle, a third piece of information representative of a gradient of the vehicle, a fourth piece of information representative of a coefficient of friction between the vehicle and a road, and a fifth piece of information representative of a weight of the vehicle, and determining a first target braking force to be applied to the first front axle and a second target braking force to be applied to the second rear axle based on the first, second, third, fourth and fifth pieces of information.

Abstract: A caliper body of a brake caliper has supports for supporting thrust devices, brake pads or at least one attaching element, and feeding pipes for supplying the thrust devices, the supports and feeding pipes being made of a first material capable of withstanding high pressures, and at least one inner body portion made of a second material adapted to incorporate the supports and feeding pipes and obtain shapes having complex geometry for distributing stress received from the supports and feeding pipes. The at least one inner body portion forms a first vehicle side elongated element facing a first braking surface, and a second wheel side elongated element facing a second braking surface opposite to the first braking surface. The caliper body has at least one outer body portion made of a third material adapted to form a reinforcement with mechanical resistance.

Abstract: A cable-pull actuation system for a parking brake may have a body which houses an electric motor device. A rod, adapted to operate along an actuation direction, at a first end thereof, an actuation member of a drum brake and/or of a parking brake. A transmission device may operatively connect the electric motor device to a second end of the rod which is translationally integral with a screw. The screw may be engaged with a nut screw rotationally actuated by the transmission device. A pre-loading device may act in contrast on the screw. The pre-loading device may be compressively pre-loaded to exert a pre-load traction on the rod to offset variations of load on the rod. The pre-loading device may be configured to exert a thrust action on the rod following the annulment of axial clearances for an incremental compression of the pre-loading device with respect to the pre-load value.

Abstract: A caliper body has a first elongated element facing a first braking surface. The first elongated element has first and second ends. The caliper body has a second elongated element facing a second braking surface. The first elongated element has first and second ends of second elongated element. The first ends of first and second elongated elements face each other. The second ends of first and second elongated elements face each other. The first ends of first and second elongated elements are connected by a first end bridge. The second ends of first and second elongated elements are connected by a second end bridge. The first and second elongated elements are connected by a central bridge. The first or second elongated element has two connecting housings for connection to a support for the caliper body in a vehicle.

Abstract: A spring for friction pads which can be associated with a caliper of a disc brake to bias the friction pads elastically away from a brake disc may have a central stretch and two opposite transverse stretches, extending from the central stretch in two opposite transverse directions and each forming a supporting stretch, a resting stretch and a wing stretch extending between the supporting stretch and the resting stretch. The supporting stretches lie on the same supporting plane and the wing stretch may have an ascending wing stretch and a descending wing stretch. The spring may also have one or more fixing stretches connected to the central stretch and forming at least two opposite fixing stretches for elastic snap fixing to corresponding fixing seats of the caliper.

Abstract: A disc assembly has a braking band, a bell and at least one driving element. The bell has at least one driving surface, forming a tangential abutment surface. The bell rests on at least one surface of the braking band or on a plurality of surfaces of the braking band coplanar with one another. The braking band has at least one driving band surface extending along axial and radial directions, forming at least one tangential abutment surface and slidingly rests on the at least one driving band surface. The driving element is selectively movable from a position in which it avoids resting on the bell to a position in which it rests on the bell and constrains the bell to the braking band in axial and circumferential directions, preventing the braking band from being constrained to the bell in radial direction.

Abstract: A caliper body of a caliper for a disc brake may have two opposite elongated portions, each adapted to face one of the two opposite braking surfaces of the disc of disc brake. The two opposite elongated portions are connected to each other by at least one caliper bridge. At least one of the two opposite elongated portions may have seat walls which delimit at least one seat, adapted to house at least one portion of a thrusting element. The thrusting element may be adapted to determine a thrusting action against at least one brake pad associable with the caliper body to press the at least one brake pad against one of the two opposite braking surfaces. The seat walls may have at least one seat bottom wall, in which the axial thickness of the seat bottom wall is less than 5 mm.

Abstract: A detection device for detecting a braking force applied by a brake caliper on a hub holder is configured to be mounted at a fastening interface between the brake caliper and the hub holder and has a low-friction body, a caliper- hub-holder connection element, a sensor element, and an electrical interface. The low-friction body puts into contact the brake caliper and the hub holder at the fixing interface. The caliper- hub-holder connection element, configured to be mechanically connected to the brake caliper and the hub holder, is susceptible of deformation. The low-friction body decouples tightening forces from the braking forces to minimize the effect of the tightening forces on the detection device. The sensor element detects strains and generates electrical signals indicative of detected strains and representative of the braking force. The electrical interface is connected to the sensor element for conducting and making available the generated electrical signals.

Abstract: A caliper body has a first elongated vehicle-side element, a second elongated wheel-side element, a central caliper bridge connecting the first elongated vehicle-side element to the second elongated wheel-side element and having a first bridge end portion, a central bridge portion extending between the first elongated vehicle-side element and the second elongated wheel-side element, and a second bridge end portion. The first and second bridge end portions respectively connect the central bridge portion to the first elongated vehicle-side element and the second elongated wheel-side element. The central caliper bridge has a pair of bridge ribs forming a trench therebetween and extending seamlessly running along the first bridge end portion, forming a pair of first end rib portions, the central bridge portion, forming a pair of central rib portions, and the second bridge end portion, forming a pair of second end rib portions.

Abstract: A method for making a brake disc may include the following steps: a) preparing a brake disc having a braking band provided with two opposite braking surfaces, (b) subjecting at least one of the braking surfaces to a working process adapted to increase the surface roughness thereof; c) nitrocarburizing the braking surface with increased surface roughness to obtain on the surface a nitrocarburized surface layer; (d) depositing on the nitrocarburized surface layer a material in particle form having: —Cr3C2 and NiCr, or —NiCr, Fe, Mo, Co, Mn and Al, which forms a base protective coating; and e) depositing on the base protective coating a material in particle form consisting of WC, Fe, Cr and Al, thus forming a surface protective coating of WC and Fe, Cr and Al.