Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Toru Aonuma

Chihiro Iida

Yoshiyuki Imai

Kazumasa Uehara

The present invention is a vehicle disc brake for which incorrect installation of a friction pad can be prevented with a simple structure. The disc brake is provided with incorrect installation-preventing parts with which, if a friction pad () is installed with an incorrect installation orientation when a pair of tabs () provided on the disc entry-side and disc exit-side of the back plate () of a friction pad () is installed into pad guide grooves () formed on a caliper body (), the tabs bump into the caliper body () and prevent the incorrect installation. The incorrect installation-preventing parts are formed from caliper-side recesses (), which are formed in the pad guide grooves () towards the center of the caliper body, and tab-side protrusions (), which have shapes that correspond to the caliper-side recesses ().

Vehicle disc brake

The present invention is a vehicle disc brake for which incorrect installation of a friction pad can be prevented with a simple structure. The disc brake is provided with incorrect installation-preventing parts with which, if a friction pad () is installed with an incorrect installation orientation when a pair of tabs () provided on the disc entry-side and disc exit-side of the back plate () of a friction pad () is installed into pad guide grooves () formed on a caliper body (), the tabs bump into the caliper body () and prevent the incorrect installation. The incorrect installation-preventing parts are formed from caliper-side recesses (,), which are formed in the pad guide grooves () towards the center of the caliper body, and tab-side protrusions (,), which have shapes that correspond to the caliper-side recesses (,).

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