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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a friction material which comprises a filler component and a binder component contg. a fiber component and is excellent in stability of braking performance even when water is present on the surface, hardly causing an abnormal sound, by using, as at least a part of the fiber component, potassium titanate fibers which allow only a small amt. of potassium to dissolve out into 25 deg.C water. SOLUTION: Only potassium titanate fibers which allow potassium in an amt. of 0.1wt.% or lower (based on the total amt. of potassium titanate) to dissolve out into 25 deg.C water is used here. Conventional potassium titanate fibers allow about 1wt.% potassium to dissolve out, and when water is attached, potassium dissolves out into and reacts with water to form a film of hydrated titania, which adversely affects the stability of braking preformance. Potassium hexatitante or octatitanate fibers are used as the potassium titanate fibers. The binder component comprises the fiber component and a thermosetting resin (e.g. a phenol resin). Graphite, barium sulfate, etc., are used as the filler component.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a friction material which is excellent in stability of braking performance and hardly causes abnormal sound even when water is present on the surface by incorporating potassium titanate fibers thermally treated at 300 deg.C or higher as at least a part of a fiber component into a friction mate rial comprising a filler component and a binder component contg. the fiber component. SOLUTION: The thermal treatment is performed at 300 deg.C or higher, pref. 300-400 deg.C, for 1-8hr and may be carried out after molding the friction material. The treatment is considered to separate hydrophilic OH groups from potassium titanate to render the molecular terminals hydrophobic. Potassium hexatitante fibers or potassium octatitanate fibers are used as the potassium titanate fibers. The binder component comprises the fiber component and a thermosetting resin (e.g. a phenol resin, a urea resin, a melamine resin, or a modification of these resins). Graphite, barium sulfate, calcium carbonate, etc., are used as the filler component.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a friction material which can show excellent braking effectiveness and does not produce any foreign sound even when its surface is wetted with water upon e.g. automobile washing and is a friction material not suffering from difficulties in prior art and containing potassium titanate fibers excellent in fading resistance. SOLUTION: This material comprises a fiber component, a binder component and a filler component. The fiber component at least partially consists of potassium titanate fibers having a fiber length of 1μm to 1mm and a fiber diameter of 0.2μm to 50μm and nonfibrilated aramid fibers having a fiber length of 0.5-1mm and a fiber diameter of 1-20μm or at least partially consists of potassium titanate fibers having a fiber length of 1μm to 1mm and a fiber diameter of 0.2-50μm and fibrilated aramid fibers having a fiber length of 0.5-6mm and a fiber diameter of 1-20μm.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a disc brake rotor which improves corrosion resistance and wear resistance. SOLUTION: In the disc brake rotor 1, a surface layer 12, which uses an Fe-C-N-based compound as its main material and contains dispersed hard materials harder than the cast iron, is formed on the surface of a base material 11 made of cast iron. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a carbon composite material having a high, stable coefficient of friction even by a small number of times of braking, having low abrasion losses, and suitable for a brake material. SOLUTION: A brake pad 10 is prepared by integrating a first layer 11 comprising a carbon fiber woven fabric 12 as a two dimensional carbon fiber material and a second layer 15 comprising a short carbon fiber material 16 by laminating, heating and pressurizing these layers. The first layer 11 is preferably formed by impregnating the carbon fiber woven fabric 12 with a liquid resin and then carbonizing the impregnated woven fabric. The second layer 15 is preferably formed by mixing a short carbon fiber material 16, a resin powder, a silica powder or a silicon powder and carbonizing the mixture. A phenol resin which is a thermosetting resin is used as the liquid resin and the resin powder. The first layer and the second layer is preferably formed together with a resin layer composed of a thermosetting resin and then carbonized for integration. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drum brake device which can reduce effectively occurrence of a breaking squeak. SOLUTION: A drum brake device 10 has a rim 18, to which a bonding agent 60 for adhering a brake lining 24 is applied at certain intervals. If a first brake shoe 16 vibrates in resonance to a braking squeak, a friction is generated between the rim 18 and lining 24 in the portions free of application of the bonding agent, and by this friction the vibratory energy is converted into thermal energy to cause reduction of the vibration. Because the bonding agent application area is made different about the boundary lying approximately in the center of the rim 18 which corresponds to the node of the secondary vibration as the chief vibration in resonance, the rate of vibratory-thermal conversion of the energy differs between one end and the other about approximate the center of the rim 18 as boundary. Therefore, the secondary vibration becomes irregular, and the braking squeak can be reduced effectively.
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PURPOSE:To prevent or suppress the generation of brake noise owing to a moisture content by absorbing a moisture content adhered on the surface of a friction pad, in a brake pad for a disk brake having a back plate in which a plurality of through-holes are formed, and the friction pad adhered on the surface of the back plate. CONSTITUTION:A brake pad for a disk brake is provided with a back plate 11 in which a plurality of through-holes 11b are formed and a brake pad for a disk brake having a friction pad 12 adhered on the surface of the back plate 11. A water absorptive means 13 is mounted in each through-hole 11b of the back plate 11 and a moisture content adhered on the surface of the friction pad 12 is adsorbed by the water absorbing means 13 through continuous pores in the pad 12.
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PURPOSE:To improve the extent of abrasion resistance by manufacturing a disk brake rotor with cast iron made up of dispersing ZrSiO4 or the like to be mixed in a disk brake pad in an Fe-C structure. CONSTITUTION:Cast iron of Fe-3.3(wt.%)C is melted and cooled as being stirred up and it is kept somewhere about 1200 degrees. A globular grain of ZrSiO4 of 7 in Mohs' hardness and about 20mum in grain size just the same as those mixed in pad material is put in molten metal as much as about 3%wt. and, after being stirred up until it comes to uniformity, molded and thus a disk brake rotor consisting of such a material that has a structure made up of dispersing spheroidal graphite 2 and hard grains 3 in pearlite 1 is manufactured. Since the hard grains are dispersed in the cast iron of the rotor, abrasion resistance is improved.
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PURPOSE:To prevent removal of a base material of steel fibers, improve abrasion resistance, and improve the strength of the pad in the title by using network or multi-branching steel fibers for the base material. CONSTITUTION:A net is manufactured of steel fibers 11 of material of SUM22 of diameter of about 60mu, this is cut to be a net chip of a rectangle of about 5X15mm to be used for a base material, and this is combined with other components in a predetermined composition to manufacture a disc brake pad. As a result, the steel fibers 11 give catches in the pad to make it difficult to pull them, and because the steel fibers 11 themselves have connecting force, it becomes more difficult to pull them, so removal of the base material is prevented. Abrasion resistance, which is of importance for a brake pad, can thus be improved, and the strength of the pad itself can also be improved.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a clutch mechanism for reducing drag torque by a simple structure. SOLUTION: The clutch mechanism 1 includes a fly wheel 12 arranged in a crankshaft 11, a clutch disk 14 arranged in an input shaft 13 relatively rotationally to the fly wheel 12, and a pressure plate 17 pressing the clutch disk 14 to the fly wheel 12. In the fly wheel 12, an air flow port 34, which communicates a jetting port 32 opened in a frictional engagement face 31 with an introduction port 33 opened on the inside diameter side beyond the frictional engagement face 31, is formed inside. An air flow port 44 communicating a jetting port 42 opened in a frictional engagement face 41 with an introduction port 43 opened on the inside diameter side beyond the frictional engagement face 41 is formed inside a pressure plate 17. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT