Patent ID: 9689448
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: F16D,Y10T

Claim:
1. A brake pad for a brake system, the brake pad comprising: a first, substantially planar, brake pad surface having a coefficient of friction, the first substantially planar brake pad surface being removably contactable, in use, with a first radial portion of a brake disc having a rotation axis, wherein: at a first point on the first brake pad surface the coefficient of friction has a first value; at a second point on the first brake pad surface the coefficient of friction has a second value greater than the first value; and at a third point on the first brake pad surface the coefficient of friction has a third value greater than the second value, wherein, in use, the first, second and third points are configured to be contactable with corresponding points on the first radial portion of the component at locations of increasing radial distance from the rotation axis so that the second point is further from the rotation axis than the first point, and the third point is further from the rotation axis than the second point, wherein the first point is positioned at a first edge of the first brake pad surface being relatively proximal, in use, to the rotation axis, and the third point is positioned at a third edge of the first brake pad surface being relatively distal, in use to the rotation axis; and wherein the first substantially planar brake pad surface substantially occupies an area between a first terminal edge of the brake pad, proximal to the rotation axis in use, and a second terminal edge of the brake pad, distal to the rotation axis in use.