Freni Brembo S.p.a.

Brembo S.p.a.

Freni Brenbo S.p.a.

Mirko Castellana

Cristian Crippa

Fabio Scotti

Andrea Teruzzi

Lorenzo Nessi

Massimo Raffaeli

Andrea Milanesi

Diego Comito

Daniel Longhi

Andrea Pirino

Sara Arragoni

A caliper body having first and second braking surfaces, a bracket connecting to a caliper support provided in a vehicle and a floating element supported by the bracket to move along the axial direction. The floating element has a first floating element portion facing the first braking surface. The first floating element portion has a biasing device housing to accommodate a biasing device. The floating element has a first floating element bridge protruding straddling the brake disc and a plate-shaped portion extending on a plane along circumferential and radial directions. The plate-shaped portion has end portions protruding from opposite sides with respect to the first floating element bridge, a second inner plate-shape portion side facing the biasing device, two plate-shaped portion projections protruding from the plate-shaped portion side and having thrust surfaces biasing a second pad against the second braking surface and forming with the plate-shaped portion a ventilation channel.

Disc brake caliper body

Disc brake caliper

A pad assembly adapted to be mounted in a caliper body for a disc brake has a pad-housing pocket. The disc brake defines an axial direction, either coinciding or parallel with the direction of the rotation axis of the brake disc associable with the caliper body, a radial direction (R-R), orthogonal to the axial direction, and a tangential (T-T) or circumferential (T-T) direction, orthogonal both to the axial direction and to the radial direction (R-R). The pad-housing pocket has at least one pocket wall to form a tangential abutment for a brake pad associable with the caliper body. The pad assembly has a brake pad having a support plate, adapted to form a support for at least one associable friction material, where the support plate has a main extension along the radial (R-R) and tangential (T-T) directions. The support plate has a predefined bulk along the tangential direction (T-T), or tangential bulk, such that the support plate is adapted to be accommodated with a predetermined tangential play in the pad-housing pocket. The pad also has at least one elastic element.

Pad assembly for caliper body

A heat shield element for a brake caliper of a disc brake, capable of providing complete radial and axial protection for the brake caliper, which is arranged straddling a disc brake disc and having a vehicle-side elongated portion and an opposite wheel-side elongated portion connected to each other by at least one caliper bridge. The element has a heat shield element body having at least two opposite snap engagement tongues adapted to snap-engage a portion of the brake caliper to interpose the heat shield element body between the brake caliper and the disc brake disc and support the heat shield element engaged with the brake caliper.

Heat shield element

The invention relates to a brake pad () of a disc brake () comprising a support plate () having a thrust surface () to receive the thrust of at least one piston, and a friction surface () to which a friction portion () is associated, associated to said support plate () to rest on a friction surface () of said brake disc (), said pad comprising a support plate edge () which delimits said thrust surface () and friction surface (), said thrust plate edge () comprising an upper edge portion (), substantially facing or directed outwards in the outward sense (RE) of said radial direction (R-R), said thrust plate edge () comprising an upper edge portion (), substantially facing or directed in the inward sense (RI) of said radial direction (R-R), said thrust plate edge () comprising two lateral edge portions () opposite each other and substantially facing or directed in the tangential direction (T-T), said lateral edge portions () each comprising a lower lateral edge sub-portion (), next to the lower edge portion (), which extends by an extension less than or equal to a third of the longitudinal extension of said lateral edge portion (), wherein said upper edge portion () of said thrust plate edge () comprises at least one tab () forming a seat (), open or closed, and defining a spring surface () facing or directed substantially in an inward direction (RI) in said radial direction (R-R), to receive and support a thrust portion () of a spring device () adapted to stress the brake pad with at least one direct thrust component in the outward direction (RE) of said radial direction (R-R), and wherein all along said upper edge portion () there is no upper support portion of the caliper body (), superiorly avoiding the support of the plate or of the pad by the caliper body () to exert a reaction to the thrust component having an outward sense (RE) of said radial direction (R-R) to the stress action of the spring device (); and wherein a portion of the support plate () which is delimited by said lower lateral edge sub-portion (), and/or by said lower edge portion (), comprises a lower portion resting on the support plate () of the caliper body, defining a caliper support surface resting on the support plate of the caliper body to exert a reaction to the thrust component of the spring device (); and wherein said caliper support surface () substantially faces, or has a sense, in the outward sense (RE) of said radial direction (R-R) to rest directly or indirectly on the caliper body (), so that said pad is pulled radially outwards substantially in its entire radial extension, in the outward sense (RE).

Disc brake pad, spring for disc brake caliper and disk brake caliper assembly

A disc brake caliper, has a caliper body having a pair of half-calipers which define a housing compartment for a portion of an associable brake disc. The half-calipers being placed on opposite sides to the housing compartment in an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis of the associable brake disc. At least one half-caliper is fitted with at least one housing seat for a piston suitable to press a pad against the associable brake disc, in the axial direction. The housing seat passes through the respective half-caliper so as to extend between an inner wall facing the housing compartment and an outer wall of the half-caliper, axially opposite the housing compartment. A cup-shaped hollow insert is housed inside the housing seat so as to present a closed end wall, placed on the side of the outer wall of the half-caliper, and a cavity having an aperture facing axially towards the housing compartment. At least one piston is housed inside the cavity of the insert and is guided axially by an inner side wall of the insert.

Disc brake caliper with reduced axial dimension

Caliper for disk brakes

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Curno, Italy

Mirko Castellana