Patents by Inventor Tomasz Pawel Grabiec
Tomasz Pawel Grabiec has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11725704Abstract: A method for producing a brake disk for a wheel brake of a land vehicle includes laser depositing a duplex steel anti-corrosion layer to an axial friction side of a main body produced from gray cast iron at a surface speed of more than 10 m/min and applying an anti-abrasion layer to the anti-corrosion layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Marc Oliver Rettig, Jaroslaw Grochowicz, Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Clemens Maria Verpoort, Andreas Wank, Alexander Hitzek, Christian Schmengler, Karin Müller-Roden, Klaus Kaesgen
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Patent number: 11578770Abstract: A guard plate for a disk brake of a vehicle includes a base element having at least one fastening section for arranging the base element in relation to a brake disk of the disk brake and at least one extension element. The at least one extension element may be movable relative to the base element and is configured to be moved and fixed between an initial position and at least one extension position.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Thomas Wilwers, Marc Oliver Rettig, Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Eugen Weber
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Publication number: 20220268329Abstract: A method for producing a brake disk for a wheel brake of a land vehicle includes laser depositing a duplex steel anti-corrosion layer to an axial friction side of a main body produced from gray cast iron at a surface speed of more than 10 m/min and applying an anti-abrasion layer to the anti-corrosion layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Marc Oliver Rettig, Jaroslaw Grochowicz, Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Clemens Maria Verpoort, Andreas Wank, Alexander Hitzek, Christian Schmengler, Karin Müller-Roden, Klaus Kaesgen
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Patent number: 11339841Abstract: A brake disk for a wheel brake of a land vehicle includes a main body formed from gray cast iron. The main body has at least one axial friction side, at least one anti-corrosion layer applied to the axial friction side, and at least one anti-abrasion layer applied to the anti-corrosion layer. The anti-corrosion layer is a duplex steel layer that provides a cost-effective coating for the brake disk and enables improved corrosion resistance. The anti-abrasion layer is wear resistant and is provided by a SiC material containing at least one oxidic or metallic binder, or by an iron-based alloy having a vanadium carbide reinforcement, a niobium carbide reinforcement, a boron carbide reinforcement, a chromium carbide reinforcement or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Marc Oliver Rettig, Jaroslaw Grochowicz, Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Clemens Maria Verpoort, Andreas Wank, Alexander Hitzek, Christian Schmengler, Karin Müller-Roden, Klaus Kaesgen
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Publication number: 20200232530Abstract: A guard plate for a disk brake of a vehicle includes a base element having at least one fastening section for arranging the base element in relation to a brake disk of the disk brake and at least one extension element. The at least one extension element may be movable relative to the base element and is configured to be moved and fixed between an initial position and at least one extension position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2020Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Thomas Wilwers, Marc Oliver Rettig, Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Eugen Weber
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Publication number: 20200072307Abstract: A brake disk for a wheel brake of a land vehicle includes a main body formed from gray cast iron. The main body has at least one axial friction side, at least one anti-corrosion layer applied to the axial friction side, and at least one anti-abrasion layer applied to the anti-corrosion layer. The anti-corrosion layer is a duplex steel layer that provides a cost-effective coating for the brake disk and enables improved corrosion resistance. The anti-abrasion layer is wear resistant and is provided by a SiC material containing at least one oxidic or metallic binder, or by an iron-based alloy having a vanadium carbide reinforcement, a niobium carbide reinforcement, a boron carbide reinforcement, a chromium carbide reinforcement or combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Marc Oliver RETTIG, Jaroslaw GROCHOWICZ, Tomasz Pawel GRABIEC, Clemens Maria VERPOORT, Andreas WANK, Alexander HITZEK, Christian SCHMENGLER, Karin MÜLLER-RODEN
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Publication number: 20200072306Abstract: A brake disk for a wheel brake of a land vehicle includes a main body formed from gray cast iron. The main body has at least one axial friction side, at least one anti-corrosion layer applied to the axial friction side, and at least one anti-abrasion layer applied to the anti-corrosion layer. The anti-corrosion layer is a cost-effective coating for the brake disk that enables enhanced corrosion resistance and is provided as a sherardizing layer. The anti-abrasion layer is wear resistant for the at least one frictional face of the brake disk and is provided by a SiC material containing at least one oxidic or metallic binder, or by an iron-based alloy having a vanadium carbide reinforcement, a niobium carbide reinforcement, a boron carbide reinforcement, a chromium carbide reinforcement or combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Marc Oliver RETTIG, Jaroslaw GROCHOWICZ, Tomasz Pawel GRABIEC, Clemens Maria VERPOORT, Andreas WANK, Alexander HITZEK, Christian SCHMENGLER, Karin MÜLER-RODEN, Klaus KAESGEN
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Patent number: 10458496Abstract: A braking apparatus for a vehicle including a wheel suspension part attached to a body of the vehicle and a wheel hub attached to the wheel suspension part. An attached air-cooled brake disk rotates relative to the wheel suspension part. A protective cover arranged on a side of the brake disk that at least partially covers the brake disk. The protective cover fastened in a stationary manner to the wheel suspension part. The protective cover including an air flow opening feeding cooling air to the brake disk. An airflow control mechanism opens and closes the air flow opening along with reducing and increasing a gap between a radial end side of the brake disk and an inner side of a wheel rim of a vehicle wheel.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Eugen Weber, Marc Oliver Rettig
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Patent number: 10274032Abstract: A brake disk includes a circular base body having a circumferential outer brake rim, a friction layer in certain regions on the base body and an adhesion-promoter or functional layer arranged over an entirety of the base body.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Ivan Jan Mathieu Ernest Bruggen, Clemens Maria Verpoort, Thomas Schläfer
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Publication number: 20180209499Abstract: A braking apparatus for a vehicle including a wheel suspension part attached to a body of the vehicle and a wheel hub attached to the wheel suspension part. An attached air-cooled brake disk rotates relative to the wheel suspension part. A protective cover arranged on a side of the brake disk that at least partially covers the brake disk. The protective cover fastened in a stationary manner to the wheel suspension part. The protective cover including an air flow opening feeding cooling air to the brake disk. An airflow control mechanism opens and closes the air flow opening along with reducing and increasing a gap between a radial end side of the brake disk and an inner side of a wheel rim of a vehicle wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Eugen Weber, Marc Oliver Rettig
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Patent number: 10001181Abstract: The disclosure relates to a brake disk and a method for producing a brake disk. The method may include roughening at least some area(s) of a surface of the main body, forming a metal coating on at least some area(s) of the roughened region of the surface of the main body, applying an enamel slip to at least some area(s) of the surface of the main body, drying the applied enamel slip, and heating the main body to form the enamel coating and to join the metal coating metallurgically to the main body. The brake disk may include a main body having an enamel coating arranged at least in some area(s). A metal coating may additionally be formed on the surface of the main body, at least in some area(s), wherein the metal coating is joined metallurgically to the main body.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Maik Broda, Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Clemens Maria Verpoort
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Publication number: 20170122393Abstract: A brake disk includes a circular base body having a circumferential outer brake rim, a friction layer in certain regions on the base body and an adhesion-promoter or functional layer arranged over an entirety of the base body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2017Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Ivan Jan Mathieu Ernest Bruggen, Clemens Maria Verpoort, Thomas Schläfer
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Patent number: 9574260Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a brake disk for a vehicle, in which a friction layer is arranged at least in certain regions on a base body of the brake disk.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Ivan Jan Mathieu Ernest Bruggen, Clemens Maria Verpoort, Thomas Schläfer
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Publication number: 20160273601Abstract: A method for producing a brake disk for a vehicle having a protective layer applied on a main body of the brake disk. The method includes the steps of: premachining a region of the main body of the blank; applying an enamel coating to the region of the main body, and treating the enamel coating on the region of the main body to metallurgically bond the enamel coating to the base material of the main body by phase formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Maik BRODA, Ivan BRUGGEN, Tomasz Pawel GRABIEC, Clemens Maria VERPOORT
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Publication number: 20160215839Abstract: A method is provided for producing a brake disk for a vehicle. For this purpose, a protective layer that has an oxide layer is arranged on a base body of the brake disk. According to the invention, the method comprises the following steps: providing a base body, preferably of iron, in particular of cast iron; applying a metallic coating, at least in certain regions, to a surface of the base body; creating a metallic connection between the metallic coating and the surface of the base body; forming the oxide layer on the metallic coating that is metallically connected to the surface of the base body. The invention is also directed to a brake disk for a vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: July 28, 2016Inventors: Ivan Jan Mathieu Ernest Bruggen, Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Clemens Maria Verpoort
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Publication number: 20160025167Abstract: The disclosure relates to a brake disk and a method for producing a brake disk. The method may include roughening at least some area(s) of a surface of the main body, forming a metal coating on at least some area(s) of the roughened region of the surface of the main body, applying an enamel slip to at least some area(s) of the surface of the main body, drying the applied enamel slip, and heating the main body to form the enamel coating and to join the metal coating metallurgically to the main body. The brake disk may include a main body having an enamel coating arranged at least in some area(s). A metal coating may additionally be formed on the surface of the main body, at least in some area(s), wherein the metal coating is joined metallurgically to the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Maik BRODA, Tomasz Pawel GRABIEC, Clemens Maria VERPOORT
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Publication number: 20150307979Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a brake disk for a vehicle, in which a friction layer is arranged at least in certain regions on a base body of the brake disk.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Inventors: Tomasz Pawel Grabiec, Ivan Jan Mathieu Ernest Bruggen, Clemens Maria Verpoort, Thomas Schläfer