Hydraulic Brake - Wikipedia
Hydraulic Brake - Wikipedia
Hydraulic Brake - Wikipedia
History
Construction
The most common arrangement of
hydraulic brakes for passenger vehicles,
motorcycles, scooters, and mopeds,
consists of the following:
System operation
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An example of a hydraulic
brake system
Hydraulic brakes transfer energy to stop an
object, normally a rotating axle. In a very
simple brake system, with just two
cylinders and a disc brake, the cylinders
could be connected via tubes, with a
piston inside the cylinders. The cylinders
and tubes are filled with incompressible
oil. The two cylinders have the same
volume, but different diameters, and thus
different cross-section areas. The cylinder
that the operator uses is called the master
cylinder. The spinning disc brake will be
adjacent to the piston with the larger
cross-section. Suppose the diameter of
the master cylinder is half the diameter of
the slave cylinder, so the master cylinder
has a cross-section four times smaller.
Now, if the piston in the master cylinder is
pushed down 40 mm, the slave piston will
move 10 mm. If 10 newtons (N) of force
are applied to the master piston, the slave
piston will press with a force of 40 N.
Component specifics
(For typical light duty automotive braking
systems)
Power brakes
Special considerations
Air brake systems are bulky, and require air
compressors and reservoir tanks.
Hydraulic systems are smaller and less
expensive.
See also
Air brake (road vehicle)
Anti-lock braking system
Bicycle brake systems
Brake bleeding
Brake-by-wire
Fuse (hydraulic)
Hydraulics
Hydraulic circuit
Railway air brake
Torque converter
Vehicle brake
References
1. Automobile Engineering, Vol. II., p.
183. American Technical Society,
Chicago, 1919
2. Loughhead, Malcolm, "Braking
apparatus," U.S. Patent no. 1,249,143
(filed: 1917 January 22 ; issued: 1917
December 4).
3. Csere, Csaba (January 1988), "10 Best
Engineering Breakthroughs", Car and
Driver, 33 (7), p. 61
4. http://www.autonews.com/article/199
60626/ANA/606260745/stopping-
power-put-duesenbergs-forever-in-
industrys-winners-circle
5. "Motor Age" . 1915.
6. Sean Bennett (3 November 2006).
Modern Diesel Technology: Brakes,
Suspension & Steering . Cengage
Learning. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-4180-
1372-1.
7. "Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standards and Regulations" .
www.nhtsa.gov. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
8. "CDC - NIOSH Pocket Guide to
Chemical Hazards - Ethylene glycol" .
www.cdc.gov. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
9. "CDC - NIOSH Pocket Guide to
Chemical Hazards - Propylene glycol
monomethyl ether" . www.cdc.gov.
Retrieved 11 April 2018.
External links
Nice, Karim. "How Brakes Work" . How
Stuff Works. Retrieved 18 June 2010.
"Hydraulic Brakes" . Integrated
Publishing. Archived from the original
on 30 March 2010. Retrieved 18 June
2010.
Erjavec, Jack (2004). Automotive
Technology: A Systems Approach,
Delmar Cengage Learning. ISBN 1-4018-
4831-1
Allan and Malcolm Loughead
(Lockheed) Their Early Lives in the Santa
Cruz Mountains including the invention
of the hydraulic brake.
Patents
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