US 11,746,844 B2
Rotor clip for brake assembly
Aleksander Andrzej Błachut, Ozimek (PL); Mirosław Stanisław Sosnowski, Mirków (PL); Marcin Szymon Sokołowski, Wojsławice-Kolonia (PL); Maciej Wojciech Krulak, Warsaw (PL); and Karol Straś, Jelenia Góra (PL)
Assigned to GOODRICH CORPORATION, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Goodrich Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/901,684.
Claims priority of application No. 21461600 (EP), filed on Sep. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0116460 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. F16D 65/10 (2006.01); F16D 65/12 (2006.01); B60B 27/00 (2006.01); B64C 25/36 (2006.01); F16D 65/02 (2006.01); F16D 55/36 (2006.01)
CPC F16D 65/126 (2013.01) [B60B 27/0052 (2013.01); B64C 25/36 (2013.01); F16D 65/123 (2013.01); F16D 55/36 (2013.01); F16D 2065/1392 (2013.01); F16D 2250/0084 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A clip for a rotor disk of a brake assembly, the clip comprising: a first half comprising a first sheet metal strip having a body portion and a first end and a second end bent in a first direction relative to the body portion; and a second half comprising a second sheet metal strip having a body portion having a length the same as the length of the body portion of the first sheet metal strip, the second sheet metal strip having a first end and a second end bent in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, relative to the body portion of the second sheet metal strip; and wherein one of the first end of the first sheet metal strip and the first end of the second sheet metal strip is provided with a first pin protruding from the end and the other of the first end of the first sheet metal strip and the second sheet metal strip is provided with a first aperture configured to receive the first pin when the first and second sheet metal strips are assembled such that their first ends overlap; and wherein one of the second end of the first sheet metal strip and the second end of the second sheet metal strip is provided with a second pin protruding from the end and the other of the second end of the first sheet metal strip and the second sheet metal strip is provided with a second aperture configured to receive the second pin when the first and second sheet metal strips are assembled such that their second ends overlap.