Nichias Corporation

Nichias Corportation

Tadashi Arai

Junichi Kondoh

Toshiharu Anegawa

Yuki Soeda

Takahiro Niwa

Masaki Yoshihara

Kunihiko Yano

A novel disc brake shim and a disc brake that can effectively suppress vibration and squeal are provided. The disc brake shim that is formed of a multilayer structure with three layers or more including at least a base material layer formed of a metal sheet, and a foamed rubber layer that is laminated on a main surface on one side of the base material layer, wherein the foamed rubber layer is an intermediate layer of the multilayer structure, and the disc brake including pad materials on both sides in an axial direction of a disc rotor, and shims on opposite sides from the disc rotor, of the pad materials adjacently, wherein each of the shims is the disc brake shim according to the present invention.

Shim for disk brakes, and disk brake

A novel disc brake shim and disc brake that can effectively suppress vibration and squeal are provided. The disc brake shim includes a base material layer formed of a metal sheet, and a foamed rubber layer that is laminated on at least a part of a main surface on one side of the base material layer, the foamed rubber layer being an outermost layer once arranged, and the disc brake includes pad materials on both sides in an axial direction of a disc rotor, and shims on opposite sides from the disc rotor, of the pad materials adjacently, wherein each of the shims is the disc brake shim of the present invention.

Disc brake shim and disc brake

Vibration damping shim structure

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Tokyo, Japan

Tadashi Arai