US 12,420,306 B2
Method of painting a vehicle brake component using a sealing plug
German Diesterweg, Viernheim (DE); Uwe Montag, Ketsch (DE); Bernward Redemann, Hockenheim (DE); and Vitalij Scherer, Leimen (DE)
Assigned to ZF CV Systems Europe BV, Brussels (BE)
Filed by ZF CV Systems Europe BV, Brussels (BE)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/977,050.
Claims priority of application No. 21207131 (EP), filed on Nov. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0146765 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. B05D 1/32 (2006.01)
CPC B05D 1/32 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for painting a component (3) of a vehicle brake (1), wherein the component (3) includes a recess (5) that extends in a direction of a longitudinal axis (L), the recess having an inner face (9) intended to be kept at least partially free from paint, the method comprising the steps of:
providing the component (3),
introducing a sealing plug (7) into the recess (5) of the component, wherein the sealing plug (7) has at least one sealing face and
disposing the sealing face inside the recess (5),
moving the sealing face into sealing abutment with the inner face (9) in a radial direction relative to the longitudinal axis (L), and
painting the component (3) after the sealing plug (7) has been introduced into the recess (5);
wherein the sealing plug (7) has a base member made of a resiliently deformable material;
wherein the sealing plug includes a plurality of radial flange members that extend radially from the base member into contact with the inner face of the recess;
wherein the radial flange members are axially spaced from each other;
wherein the component (3) has an end face from which the recess (5) extends;
wherein axially outermost ones of the radial flange members are disposed at axially recessed locations relative to the end face;
wherein a majority of the axial length between the axial outermost ones of the radial flange members is free from radially extending flange members, wherein each of the radial flange members are axially spaced relative to each other at an axial length that is greater than a radial protrusion of the flange member.