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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2019
Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Philip Nathanael Jedele, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Gang Lou, Rochester, MI (US);
Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A floating caliper brake assembly comprising: a caliper housing that is movable between a brake on position and a brake off position; a support bracket at least partially enclosed by the caliper housing and configured to extend around a rotor of a vehicle, the caliper housing being in communication with and movable relative to the support bracket, wherein the caliper housing has one or more fingers that extend radially downward and cover the support bracket so that when the brake assembly is viewed from an outboard side along an axis coaxial with, or substantially parallel to, an axis of rotation of the rotor the support bracket is obscured from view.