US 12,404,906 B2
Heat shield panel attachment bracket
Marcin Szymon Sokolowski, Wojslawice-Kolonia (PL); Bartlomiej Kamil Zuk, Legnica (PL); Nicholas Edward Scaggs, Springfield, OH (US); and Nathaniel J. Herrmann, Springfield, OH (US)
Assigned to Goodrich Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Goodrich Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/944,960.
Claims priority of application No. 21461601 (EP), filed on Sep. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0098290 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. F16D 65/847 (2006.01); B64C 25/42 (2006.01); F16D 65/78 (2006.01)
CPC F16D 65/847 (2013.01) [B64C 25/42 (2013.01); F16D 2065/785 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An attachment bracket for fastening a heat shield panel of a wheel assembly to a radially inner surface of a wheel, the attachment bracket having an essentially Z-shaped structure comprising an attachment part defining two inner contact surfaces in a first plane each shaped to form, in use, a surface contact with a radially outer surface of the heat shield panel, and a wheel connector part defining an outer contact surface in a second plane arranged to form, in use, a surface contact with the wheel when the heat shield panel is located in position relative to the wheel, where the first and second planes are essentially parallel but spaced apart in an axial direction of the wheel, and a sloping connector part extending from the first plane to the second plane connecting a first end of the attachment part to a first end of the wheel connector part, wherein the wheel connector part is in the form of a plate having a curvature to match the curvature of the radially inner surface of the wheel to which it is to be attached.