Patent ID: 7614485
Filing Date: 2009-11-10
Classification: F16D,F28F

Abstract:
1. A device supportable on a vehicle and cooperable with a disk of a brake assembly thereof for cooling said disk, comprising: a housing provided with a wall section having an exterior planar surface disposable into engagement with a surface of said disk, and a chamber including an inlet and an outlet for circulating a coolant therethrough; and a plurality of transversely disposed, thermally conductive fibers embedded in said wall section, providing a first set of protruding exterior ends having lengths greater than the spacing between said planar surface and said disk when mounted, allowing such protruding, exterior ends to flex and thus continuously engage said disk as said disk wears and said spacing between said planar surface and said disk increases, and a second set of protruding, interior ends disposed within said chamber communicable with coolant disposed therein.