Abstract: A brake mechanism includes a connecting element that is fixed to a wheel axle of a motor vehicle or is embodied monolithically therewith, and a fastening flange of a disk brake caliper. The fastening flange is fixed to the connecting element. The brake mechanism is configured in such a way that the fastening flange is retained in a positive manner on the connecting element in the circumferential direction of the wheel axle.

Abstract: An adjustable fluid cooled brake is provided that integrates the driven shaft and bearings with braking components to form a packaged assembly. The brake includes a driven shaft and two bearings disposed about the driven shaft. The brake further includes a housing disposed about the shaft and friction plates coupled to the housing and driven shaft. One end cap assembly of the brake is coupled to the housing and supports one of the bearings. The end cap assembly includes a pressure plate configured to compress the friction plates. Another end cap assembly is coupled to the housing and supports the other bearing. One of end cap assemblies is spaced from the housing by a spacer that may be adjusted to enable axial movement of the end cap assembly relative to the housing and the corresponding bearing thereby permitting adjustment of the brake.

Abstract: A sliding arrangement for a disk brake includes a caliper adapted to engage a brake disk, and a first and a second support bearing for fixing the caliper to a brake support of the vehicle so that the caliper is axially slideable relative to the brake disk, where the first support bearing includes a first guide pin and a first guide bushing and the second support bearing includes a second guide pin and a second guide bushing, where the first guide pin and guide bushing have substantially no play between their sliding surfaces and the second guide pin and guide bushing have a play between their sliding surfaces, wherein the second guide bushing include an inner and an outer annular metal member with an annular member of resilient material therebetween, and wherein the bushing is mounted such that the center of the bushing is offset to the center of the guide pin. Hereby, brake noise created by vibrations when the brake is inactive is eliminated.

Abstract: A disk brake, especially for a commercial vehicle, comprising a brake caliper (2) which is fixed on a brake carrier (3) of the commercial vehicle by means of two fixing elements such that it is axially displaceable in relation to the disk brake (1) whereby one fixing element is embodied as a fixed bearing (4) and the other fixing element is embodied as a loose bearing (5) with a sliding bushing (6) inserted into a bore of the brake caliper (2), whereby the inner or outer contour thereof deviates from that of a circle, whereby a guide bar (8), having for example a round cross-section, is guided in the sliding bushing (6). The sliding bushing (6) of the loose bearing (5) is provided with at least one securing element (10) which, when the sliding bushing (6) is mounted in a precise position, fixes the sliding bushing and is inserted into a recess (11) of the bore.

Abstract: The invention relates to a self-boosting electromechanical disk brake with a frame caliper equipped with a wear readjustment device which for instance is automatic and which upon tensing of the disk brake stores energy by prestressing a torsion shaft, which upon release of the disk brake converts this energy into a wear readjustment motion. In the process, a spacing between two brake lining holders of the frame caliper in the disk brake is decreased.

Abstract: A guide pin for a sliding disc brake caliper and a carrier for the caliper are attached together by generating a difference in temperatures between a section of the guide pin and a section of the carrier. The section of the guide pin is then inserted into an aperture defined in the section of the carrier. Upon achieving or restoring thermal equilibrium between the guide pin and carrier sections, contact pressure between the section of the guide pin and a surface of the aperture is produced so as to secure the guide pin to the carrier and resist separation of the guide pin from the carrier.

Abstract: A disc brake comprises a brake carrier, which is fastenable to the vehicle and is provided with bolts at the leading side and at the trailing side of the brake, which during braking take up the forces acting upon the brake linings. The relative dimensions and arrangements of the bolts and of the brake lining are such that, upon introduction of a brake force that is capable of decelerating the vehicle up to a maximum value in the region of 0.1 g, only tensile forces act upon the brake lining.

Abstract: A disc brake has a brake carrier (10) with at least two bolts (16a, 16b, 18a, 18b) which stand axially to the brake disc for guiding a brake lining (32a, 32b). The plane (P) spanned by the bolt axes has a smaller radial distance (D) from the disc axis (A) than the centroid of the friction lining.

Abstract: A disc brake for a vehicle has a caliper body including an acting section having a cylinder hole and provided on a first side of a disc rotor, a reacting section on a second side of the disc rotor and a bridge section connecting the acting section with the reacting section, a pair of friction pads, a caliper bracket fixed to a vehicle body via a pair of mounting bolts, the caliper bracket having a mount hole for the mounting bolt and a torque receiving face and provided on both sides of the caliper bracket in a circumferential direction of the disc rotor and a pair of slide pins wherein a center of the mount hole of the mounting bolt and a center of the cylinder hole are located in an area defined between the first and second base lines.

Abstract: A brake caliper guide pin assembly including a caliper body defining an elongated bore, the elongated bore defining a central axis, a bushing positioned in the elongated bore, the bushing including at least a first layer and a second layer, wherein the first layer is formed from a rigid material and defines a central opening, and wherein the second layer is formed from a pliable material and is positioned radially outward of the first layer with respect to the central axis, and a guide pin having an elongated stem extending into the elongated bore, wherein at least a portion of the elongated stem is closely received by the central opening.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved disc brake assembly. The disc brake assembly includes a member adapted to be secured to a vehicle component, the member having a pair of ears each provided with at least a first opening formed therethrough; a brake caliper supported relative to the member; a pair of brake shoes carried by the brake caliper, each of the brake shoes including opposed ends having an opening formed therethrough; and a pin disposed in each of the first openings of the ears and extending through the openings formed in the opposed ends of the brake shoes to slidably support the brake shoes and the caliper for movement relative to the member whereby the brake caliper and the brake shoes may be removed from the member without removing the pins from the member.

Abstract: The present invention includes a disk brake including a caliper having an opening, the opening includes two edges, the caliper also having pin holes positioned adjacent to the two edges, a pad positioned in the opening of the caliper, a pair of pad pins connectable to the pin holes of the caliper and able to movably support the pad and a bias member capable of biasing the pair of pad pins in at least one of a mutually approaching direction and a mutually separating direction, the bias member is capable of elastically pushing the pair of pad pins against hole wall surfaces of the pin holes of the caliper.

Abstract: A disc brake having a caliper straddling a rotor; a fixed carrier, an actuator comprising a primary cylinder located in the caliper and closed by a piston; a guide arrangement including first and second pins for allowing the caliper to slide relative to the carrier on actuation, the first and second pins have a bound end fixed to the caliper and a free end respectively retained in first and second bores in the carrier by annular roll-back seals to define first and second auxiliary or secondary hydraulic cylinders. Inboard and outboard friction pads are positioned on opposite faces of the rotor by the piston and the caliper. In operation, the caliper, cylinder, and outboard brake pad are hydraulically moved to engage the outboard brake pad with the rotor while the primary cylinder hydraulically moves the inboard brake pad into engagement with the rotor to effect a brake application.

Abstract: Notches 20, 20 constituting engaging portions are provided at portions of middle portions in a rotating direction a rotor at end portions on outer radial side of the two pads 11, 12 in a radial direction of the rotor. Further, an engaging pin 19 is made to bridge an outer body portion 3b and an inner body portion 4b constituting the caliper 5b. Further, the coupling pin 19 is inserted through the notches 20, 20, so that the two pads 11, 12 are displaceable in an axial direction of the rotor, and a braking torque applied to the two pads 11, 12 can be supported by the coupling pin 19.

Abstract: A disc brake comprising a caliper, one or more brake discs and one or more brake pads. The brake pads are received on back plates or other pad support. The caliper and the pad supports are designed to take up resulting re-action forces during braking in a plane perpendicular to a contact surface between the caliper and each pad support.

Abstract: A disc brake caliper assembly is provided including a support bracket, a pair of slide pins, and a caliper body. The support bracket includes an inboard rail and an outboard rail. The inboard rail defines a pair of engagement bores. The pair of slide pins engage the pair of engagement bores. The caliper body slidably engages the pair of slide pins. The caliper body includes an inboard portion and an outboard portion. The inboard and outboard portions balance each other such that the caliper body has a center of gravity that is substantially axially aligned with the location of engagement between the slide pins and the engagement bores.

Abstract: A brake device includes a brake disk fixed to a power transmission shaft, and a brake caliper for braking the brake disk by a nipping action. The brake caliper includes a caliper bracket fitted to a final gear case, and a caliper body detachably fitted to the caliper bracket, wherein the caliper body is fitted to the caliper bracket by a pair of fixing bolts. The screw-fitting directions of the individual bolts of the pair of fixing bolts are opposite to each other. The aforementioned brake device for a vehicle permits maintenance work to be quickly and easily carried out.

Abstract: A disc brake having a brake carrier (10) which may be fastened to the vehicle and to which bolts are fastened, comprises brake pads (32a, 32b), in the supporting plates of which U-shaped recesses (40, 40?) are formed, which are placed onto the bolts, such that the brake pads are axially movably guided relative to the brake disc.

Abstract: A brake (10) for a wheel of a vehicle is slidably mounted to a vehicle frame by mounting sleeves (22). The brake (10) includes a stationary actuator (20) which has a plurality of depressions (38) adapted to receive a plurality of balls (40). The stationary actuator (20) further has a pin hole (34) which receives a pin (36) which correspondingly defines a pivot axis (50). Adjacent to the stationary actuator (20) is a rotating actuator (66) which rotates about an axis (50) and includes a plurality of depressions (78) which are axially aligned with the depressions (38) while in an un actuated state. The brake (10) is actuated by rotation of the rotating actuator (66) which correspondingly moves the balls (40) to progressively more shallow portions of the depressions (38, 78) which acts upon a washer (82) and one or more shims (86) to force a first stator (16) and a second stator (18) together and into contact with a rotor (12).

Abstract: A braking device includes a caliper housing having two parallel flanges assembled at each end by a transverse guard so as to define a median opening for positioning pads. The pads have, at each of their upper end, fittings to be supported and guided by shafts acting as slides. The shafts are, over their entire length, engaged in the thickness of the flanges and partly in the thickness of the guards corresponding to a zone where there is no significant deformation. Hysteresis resulting from friction between the pads and the housing is thereby reduced.

Abstract: A disc brake has an anchor that is fixed to a housing to align first and second rails and friction pads for each of first and second friction members with radial surfaces on a rotor. The friction pads are moved into engagement with radial surfaces by an actuation force to develop a brake force and reaction forces that are carried into the anchor to oppose the rotation of the rotor during a brake application. The anchor has projections on the first rail located in planes that are offset from radial engagement surfaces on the rotor. The friction members each have a carrier with an outwardly projecting lip on a first end through which the brake forces are transmitted into the projections. Since the projections are offset a moment is created by the reactions forces and an axial component derived thereof added to the actuation force during a brake application.

Abstract: The invention relates to a disk brake, in particular for a utility vehicle, comprising a brake caliper that encompasses a brake disk. The caliper is fixed to a brake support of the utility vehicle by means of fixing elements and can be axially displaced in relation to the brake disk. One fixing element is configured as a fixed bearing and the other as a floating bearing. The disk brake is configured in such a way that the floating bearing consists of a guide bush, part of which have a different wall thickness and in which a bearing bolt with a circular cross-section is guided, or a guide bush with an even wall thickness, in which a bearing bolt with an oval cross-section is guided.

Abstract: A floating disk brake having a caliper designed so as to be movable more freely in the radial direction of the rotor following any run-out or thermal expansion of the rotor and movable less freely in the tangential direction of the rotor to reduce uneven wear of the pads, thereby prolonging the life of the pads and reducing the possibility of fading at minimum cost. The caliper is supported on a mount through slide guides so as to be slidable in the direction of the axis of the rotor of the brake. The slide guides each include a slide pin fixed to the caliper, and a pin hole formed in the mount to receive the slide pin. A first clearance is defined between the mount and the caliper in a direction tangential to the rotor, and a second clearance is defined between the slide pin and the pin hole of each slide guide such that the first clearance is smaller than the second clearance.

Abstract: A slide pin bushing for use in a vehicle disc brake caliper assembly adapted to selectively frictionally engage a rotor connected to a vehicle wheel includes an anchor plate adapted to be secured to a stationary component of the vehicle, and a caliper secured to the anchor plate for sliding movement relative thereto. A pair of brake pads are carried by the disc brake caliper assembly, and an actuation means is provided for selectively moving the brake pads axially toward and away from one another so as to selectively frictionally engage the rotor. An elastomeric slide pin bushing is disposed in a non-threaded opening formed in the caliper. The slide pin bushing includes an outer end section, an intermediate section, and an inner end section. The intermediate section has an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface is provided with at least one groove formed therein. The groove is provided with a first end and a second end.

Abstract: An anchor having first and second rails to align first and second friction members with a rotor. The first and second friction members are moved into engagement with the rotor to effect a brake application. The anchor has projections that extend from the first and second rails and are aligned with the rotor. The thickness of a friction member is reduced by wear through the engagement with the rotor. Each friction member is attached to a carrier by a first inwardly projecting lip on a first end and a second inwardly projecting lip on a second end that has a length that corresponds to an initial thickness of a friction pad plus one-half the width of a projection. During a brake application the lips either engage projections on the first rail or projections on the second rail such that braking forces are communicated into the anchor without the introduction of a moment that could effect the uniform application of force from the friction member on the rotor.

Abstract: This invention relates to a disc brake assembly having a slide pin bushing protection shield attached thereto using the existing slide pin. The disc brake assembly includes an anchor plate secured to a stationary component of the vehicle and a caliper secured to the anchor plate for sliding movement therewith by a pair of slide pin bushing assemblies. Each of the slide pin bushing assemblies includes a slide pin, a sleeve, and a flexible bushing. The slide pin bushing protection shield includes at least a first side, a second side, a third side and a pair of mounting tabs. Once the slide pin bushing protection shield it is attached to the brake assembly, the shield effectively surrounds a substantial portion of the exposed portions of the flexible bushing to protect the same from possible damage due to rocks, dirt, and other road debris.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a disc brake mainly for road vehicles. The disc brake comprises a fixed caliper straddling one or more brake discs, one or more thrust plates and a number of brake pads. The brake discs are received in a non-rotating but axially moveable relationship on a rotating hub. The brake pads are guided axially moveable in the caliper taking up the load of the brake pads.

Abstract: Guide pins for retaining a caliper in an anchor of a disc brake assembly. The guide pins are characterized by a cylindrical body having a first end and a second end with a first diameter section that extends from the first end separated by a shoulder from a second diameter section that extends from the second end. The cylindrical body has a threaded axial bore that extends from a face on the second end toward the first end. A bolt has a shaft with threads thereon which mate with the threaded axial bore in the cylindrical body. A bushing is concentrically located on the shaft and in a corresponding axial opening in an ear that extends from the anchor. Torque applied to the bolt acts on and brings the bushing into engagement with the face on the second end of the cylindrical body however as the bushing has a greater length than the width of the axial opening of the ear, a desired gap is developed between a head on the bolt, the second end and the ear.

Abstract: In a disc brake in which the caliper is supported by a mounting slidably in the axial direction of the rotor via a pair of pin sliding means, the pin sliding means is such that a center of the caliper side axial portions (i.e. collars) mounted rotatably and integrally movably in the axial direction in insertion holes of the caliper is eccentric with respect to the center of the mounting side axial portions (i.e. slide pins) fitted rotatably and slidably in the axial direction into the installation holes in the mounting.

Abstract: A disc brake (10) comprises a disc (12, 14), friction material pads (26) arranged on opposite sides of the disc, and an operating mechanism (50, 52) operable to bring the pads into contact with the disc so that the pads apply a braking force to the disc. The brake (10) also comprises a slideway (72a) on which at least one of the pads (26) is suported for sliding movement towards or away from the disc (12, 14). The slideway (72a) is formed by a guidance member (72) which defines at least two parallel grooves (72b) in a surface (72c) of the guidance member. The grooves (72b) extend parallel to the direction of the slideway (72a). The guidance member (72) is supported by parallel rods (70) which are received in the grooves (72b).

Abstract: A system and method for monitoring brake pad wear are provided. The system provides a vehicle disc brake caliper assembly including a boot assembly and least one friction pad. The system further provides at least one caliper bolt including a caliper bolt switch point, the caliper bolt movably positioned within the boot assembly. A conductive element is positioned a predetermined distance from the caliper bolt switch point. An electrical circuit is switched when the conductive element contacts the switch point. The contact is established when the friction pad wears to a predetermined level corresponding to the predetermined distance. The method provides a caliper bolt including a caliper bolt switch point. A conductive element is positioned a predetermined distance from the caliper bolt switch point. The predetermined distance is progressively decreased as the brake pad wears. An electrical circuit is switched when the conductive element contacts the caliper bolt switch point.

Abstract: A disc brake having a support member secured to a vehicle with a first guide pin located in a first bore and a second guide pin located in a second bore in support member. The first and second bores are complimentary and define first and second bearing surfaces to align a caliper over a rotor associated with a wheel of the vehicle. A first friction member is connected to the piston retained by the caliper while a second friction member is connected to an arm extending from a bridge member is located on a second side of the rotor. To effect a brake application pressurized fluid acts on the piston to develop a force for moving the first and second friction members into engagement with the rotor to effect a brake application. The caliper is characterized by a first ear that extends from the actuation section while a second ear extends from the arm. The first and second ears being located on opposite sides of the rotor.

Abstract: An electromagnetic brake system is disclosed for controlling motion of a component that is movable relative to the brake system. The system includes a magnet body mounted to a support and having at least one electrically controlled magnetic device on it for generating a magnetic force when activated. A back plate is mounted adjacent to the magnet body on one side of a movable component. An armature plate is located between the magnet body and the movable component. At least one spring is located on the magnet body between the magnet body and the armature plate for biasing the armature plate away from the magnet body. The spring has a spring force that is less than the magnetic force of the magnetic device such that activation of the magnetic device urges the armature plate toward the magnet body, overcoming the spring force.

Abstract: A support member of a disc brake and a backing plate of a drum brake are formed integrally, and a pair of pin supporting portions for respectively supporting a pair of caliper slide pins are provided in the support member so that the pair of caliper slide pins supporting a caliper are passed through on a radially outward side of a rotor portion.

Abstract: The protrusion 14d of a friction pad 8 on a reacting portion side is fitted in the fitting hole 4g of the reacting portion 4b on the rotor-in side, whereas the rotor-out side of the friction pad 8 is supported by the torque-receiving stepped portion 3h of a caliper bracket 3. The pad assembling pieces and 17b of the pad spring 17 secured to the acting portion 8 are brought into resilient contact with reaction pawls 4e and 4f on the outer surface, and the inside and outside of the reaction pawls 4e and 4f are held between the back plate 14 of the friction pad 8 and the pad assembling pieces and 17b so as to fit the friction pad 8 to the reacting portion 4b. The contact piece 17e of the spring piece 17c is brought into resilient contact with the upper bottom wall of a piston receiving recess 24 in order to urge a caliper body 4 outwardly in the radial direction of a disk whereas to urge the friction pad 8 inwardly in the radial direction of the disk.

Abstract: Disc brake arrangement including a bracket adapted to be fixed to a vehicle and a brake caliper support securely mounted thereon. The bracket is made with semi-circular seats and the caliper support with cylindrical pins which are arranged so that the caliper support is held in place on the bracket by the force of gravity when the pins are received in their seats. The screw holes for the mounting screws in the caliper support coincide with corresponding screw holes in the bracket.

Abstract: A radial-mount type disk brake has a caliper and mounting bolts mounted in bolt holes formed in the caliper with some clearance. It is desired to prevent the caliper from turning when braking torque acts thereon due to the clearances. The abutment surfaces of the caliper and the mounting member include surfaces perpendicular to the disk axis. By the binding action of the surfaces, it is possible to prevent pivoting of the caliper.

Abstract: In the disk brake, mounting portions of the caliper of a disk brake extending toward the entrance side and the exit side with respect to the rotation direction of the disk. Relative to the rotation direction, the length of the mounting portion on the entrance side is greater than that of the mounting portion on the exit side so that the cylinder portion is offset toward the exit side. Further, the mounting portion on the entrance side has thickenings formed to extend in a longitudinal direction thereof, so that with respect to the direction of the axis of the disk, the thickness of the mounting portion on the entrance side is greater than that of the mounting portion on the exit side. During braking, when a bending moment acts on the caliper, which can cause inclination of the caliper relative to the disk, flexural rigidity of the mounting portion on the entrance side is higher than that of the mounting portion on the exit side.

Abstract: A disk pass portion for receiving a part of a disk is provided between a cylinder portion and an outer claw portion of a caliper body at the inner peripheral side of a bridge portion of the caliper body. A pair of mounting portions extend arcuately from both sides of the bridge portion to lie outside the disk pass portion with respect to the radial direction of the disk. A pair of sliding pins are secured to the distal ends of the mounting portions through pin bolts and slidably fitted in pin-fitting holes provided in a mounting member supporting the caliper. When the brake is activated, friction pads are pressed against the disk by the caliper. At this time, deformation of the caliper by reaction forces from the disk is small around the area where proximal portions of the mounting portions are connected to the caliper body.

Abstract: In the pushing anchor type disc brake device, reduction of noise and prevention of uneven wear can be accomplished especially in the brake device in which brake torque of the outer pad is transmitted via the caliper. In the disc brake device, the caliper is guided by a pair of guide pins composed of a main pin and a sub-pin. In order to transmit the brake torque of the outer pad via the caliper and the main pin, the back plate of the outer pad and the caliper are engaged with each other by engaging a protrusion with a recess, wherein the engagement is conducted at a plurality of portions in the circumferential direction of the rotor, so that the brake torque can be transmitted from the outer pad to the caliper. The main pin is arranged on the rotor run-out side, so that a pushing anchor structure can be formed. A pair of guide pins and guide holes of the support member which engage with the pair of guide pins stride the rotor and extend exceeding a facing section where the rotor faces the outer pad.