Brake Mounting Bracket Webs for Vibration Damping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional disc brake systems for automotive vehicles produce undesirable noises and vibrations, and existing damping solutions are limited by packaging space, visual appearance, and complexity, leading to potential failure and lack of customization.
Innovation Solution
A brake mounting bracket apparatus with a rear and front body, featuring inboard and outboard tie bars, legs, arms, bridges, and webs that provide stiffness and damping, allowing for reduced vibration and noise while being aesthetically pleasing and easily tunable.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-generated harmful factors
If conventional damping systems incorporate mass features and springs to dampen vibrations, then vibration damping capability is improved, but device complexity increases and reliability decreases due to numerous fastened parts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple damping functions into a single integrated mounting bracket structure. The bracket incorporates vibration damping features directly into its geometry, eliminating the need for separate mass features and springs. This merging of functions reduces the number of parts while maintaining vibration damping capability, directly resolving the technical contradiction between damping performance and device complexity.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If conventional damping systems use numerous fastened parts, then vibration damping capability is improved, but reliability decreases due to potential failure points
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket is designed as an integrated structure where vibration damping features are built-in rather than assembled from multiple fastened components. This reduces the number of potential failure points while maintaining the necessary vibration damping capability, thereby improving reliability without sacrificing performance.
3Object-generated harmful factors
If conventional damping systems incorporate mass features, then vibration damping capability is improved, but packaging space is exceeded due to limited space in brake systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates vibration damping functionality into the mounting bracket itself, eliminating the need for separate mass features that would occupy additional space. The damping capability is achieved through the bracket's structural design, allowing effective vibration control within the limited packaging space available in brake systems.
4Object-generated harmful factors
If conventional damping systems use separate mass features and springs, then vibration damping capability is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket is designed as a single integrated component that incorporates vibration damping features directly into its structure. This eliminates the need to manufacture and assemble separate mass features and springs, significantly reducing manufacturing complexity while maintaining effective vibration damping capability.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The apparatus effectively reduces brake noises and vibrations, offering a compact, customizable, and visually appealing solution with fewer parts, enhancing damping capabilities without adding separate mass features or pre-loading springs.
Implementation Method 1
A pair of webs each extend outwardly from one of the bridges for providing stiffness to the bridges and for damping vibrations in the mounting bracket apparatus
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AI summary
A brake mounting bracket apparatus that includes a rear body and a front body. The rear body includes an inboard tie bar and a pair of legs that each extend from a lower portion at the inboard tie bar to a terminal end. The front body includes an outboard tie bar and a pair of arms that each extend from the outboard tie bar to a distal end. A pair of bridges each extend between one of the legs and one of the arms. A pair of webs each extend outwardly from one of the bridges for providing stiffness to the bridges and for damping vibrations in the mounting bracket apparatus.