Nippon Steel Sumitomo Metal Corporation

Nippon Steel Corporation

Takanori Katou

Atsushi Sakaguchi

Yuiko Sakayama

In a disc brake for a railway vehicle includes a friction member facing a frictional surface of a disc fixed to a wheel or axle of the vehicle. A base plate holds the member on a front surface and a guide plate is at the center of a back surface of the base plate and accommodated in a concave portion of the caliper arm. A base plate front surface is in parallel to a frictional surface of the member. A thickness of the base plate is larger on an inner circumferential side than an outer circumferential side. A thickness of the guide plate is smaller than a depth of the concave portion of the caliper arm. In a state where the frictional surface of the member faces the frictional surface of the disc in parallel, the guide plate is fitted, with play, into the concave portion of the caliper arm.

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Tokyo, Japan

Takanori Katou