Pneumatically operated disk brake

US5515949A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Knorr-Bremse AG · DE

Inventors

• Hans Baumgartner · Viersen, DE
• Dieter Bieker · Munich, DE
• Johann Iraschko · Schweitenkirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 2, 1994
• Grant date: May 14, 1996
• Expiry date: May 2, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S384/908
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A pneumatically operated disk brake wherein a ball socket bearing at the connection of a lever arm to a compressed air cylinder's plunger arm of a caliper includes a slide bearing between the ball and the socket of the ball socket bearing whose sliding surface, consists of at least 70% by volume polyvinylidenefluoride, at least 10% by volume polytetrafluoro ethylene and a remainder of lead.