Patent ID: 7934586
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: F16D

Abstract:
1. A vehicle brake component fixed to and rotatable with a vehicle wheel about a vehicle axle axis having inboard and outboard braking surfaces to which spanning rotationally fixed brake friction pads are selectively applied to brake vehicle wheel rotation, comprising: a hub portion having a central plate with a plurality of fastener openings for attaching the component to a vehicle wheel and a generally cylindrical sidewall portion extending axially from the central plate, and terminating in first and second sets of angular ribs, each rib having an axially extending rib portion and a radially extending rib portion; an annular inboard brake plate having a pair of flat generally parallel faces, one inboard brake plate face forming the inboard braking surface and other inboard brake plate face connected to radially extending rib portions of the first set; and an annular outboard brake plate having a pair of flat generally parallel faces, one outboard brake plate face forming the outboard braking surface and the other outboard brake plate face connected to radially extending rib portions of the second set, wherein the axially inboard extremity of the radially extending portion of each rib in the second set of ribs is located axially intermediate the axially inboard and outboard extremities of the radially extending portion of every rib in the first set and the axially outboard extremity of the radially extending portion of each rib in the first set of ribs is located axially intermediate the axially inboard and outboard extremities of the radially extending portion of every rib in the second set of ribs.