Patent ID: 9062730
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: F16D

Abstract:
1. A friction disk brake comprising: a repeating pattern of webs, wherein the repeating pattern of webs comprises, in sequence: wherein the primary web is longer than the first secondary web and the second secondary web, wherein the first secondary web and the second secondary web are each longer than the first tertiary web, the second tertiary web, and the third tertiary web, wherein each of the primary web, the first secondary web, the second secondary web, the first tertiary web, the second tertiary web, and the third tertiary web have a positive curvature, curving in a direction of rotation of the friction disk, wherein the primary web also has a negative curvature, curving in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the friction disk, wherein the positive curvature and the negative curvature of the primary web result in an s-shaped configuration, wherein the primary web extends from an inner edge of the friction disk to a first path on a surface of the friction disk, wherein the s-shaped configuration of the primary web has an inflection point lying on a second path on the surface of the friction disk, wherein the first secondary web and the second secondary web each extend from the first path to the second path, wherein the first tertiary web, the second tertiary web, and the third tertiary web each extend from an outer edge of the friction disk to a third path on the surface of the friction disk, wherein the first path, the seconded path, and the third path are approximately concentric circles, wherein the first path has a first circumference, wherein the second path has a second circumference that is less than the first circumference, wherein the third path has a third circumference that is less than the first circumference and greater than the second circumference.