US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Friction damping ring for a disc brake rotor and rotor employing the same" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,459, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Friction damping ring for a disc brake rotor and rotor employing the same" was invented by Yuri Anatoly Karpenko (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disc brake rotor for a motor vehicle may include a substantially disc shaped body portion, a groove formed in a peripheral edge of the body portion, and a damping ring disposed in the groove. The damping ring may include a tube portion having an inner surface and an outer surface that is in what in some cases may be stationary contact with the groove, a cable including a plurality of wi...