Abstract: Disc brake arrangement including a bracket adapted to be fixed to a vehicle and a brake caliper support securely mounted thereon. The bracket is made with semi-circular seats and the caliper support with cylindrical pins which are arranged so that the caliper support is held in place on the bracket by the force of gravity when the pins are received in their seats. The screw holes for the mounting screws in the caliper support coincide with corresponding screw holes in the bracket.

Abstract: A fluid free damper, comprising a spindle member; housing means mounted for relative eccentric rotation with respect to the spindle member; and engagement means interposed between the spindle member and the housing means for rotation along with one of the housing means and the spindle member with respect to the other one of the housing means and the spindle member so as to be deformably compressed between the spindle member and the housing means and thereby generate a resistive damping force between the housing means and the spindle member in response to the eccentric rotation of the one of the housing means and spindle member with respect to the other one of the housing means and the spindle member.

Abstract: A composite disc brake rotor including a generally hat-shaped rotor body cast from an alloy, and a generally annular rotor insert cast from a metal matrix composite. The rotor body includes a generally centrally located mounting surface, and a radially outwardly extending annular portion. The rotor insert includes a pair of brake friction plates which are disposed in mutually spaced apart relationship. The brake friction plates include inner surfaces and generally parallel outer surfaces. The outer surfaces of the brake friction plates define a pair of brake friction surfaces adapted to be frictionally engaged by a pair of brake pads of a disc brake assembly. In accordance with the present invention, at least one of the inner surfaces of the brake friction plates is provided with spacing elements for engagement with the inner surface of the other one of the brake friction plates for maintaining the plates in a predetermined spaced apart relationship when the rotor body is cast in situ therewith.

Abstract: An active elastic mount for the insulated mounting of an assembly affected by vibration, in particular an internal combustion engine in a motor vehicle, includes an active decoupling system disposed on an insulated side of the mount. The active decoupling system has a permanent magnetic field. A coil vibrates in the permanent magnetic field. A decoupler mass is coupled to the coil for high-frequency vibration. A sensor detects predetermined operating parameters as a function of which the decoupler mass can be set into vibration electrodynamically. Two radially rigid, mutually parallel spring systems extend transversely to the coil and elastically suspend the coil for exact vertical guidance of the coil.