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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 1978
Filed:
Aug. 10, 1976
Tetsuo Haraikawa, Funabashi, JA;
Tokico Ltd., Kawasaki, JA;
Abstract
A floating caliper disc brake is provided with an improved device for shiftably mounting the housing on the support and for transmitting the lateral forces exerted on the housing during braking to the support, which is entirely independent of the relationship between the bolts interconnecting the caliper portions of the housing and the holes in the support through which they pass. Such bolts merely pass through the holes in the support loosely, so that the lateral forces generated by braking will not distort or bend such bolts and thereby also distort the housing or cause binding between the shiftable housing and the support. The improved housing mounting and force-transmitting device employs a pair of sleeve-like cylindrical guide projections oppositely extending from the sides of the support for each of the holes in the latter and respectively coaxial with such holes, and a pair of opposed cylindrical guide cavities in each of the spaced caliper portions of the housing and respectively coaxial with the holding bolts of the housing. Each of such projections is slidably received in a corresponding cavity to provide the required shiftable mounting of the housing upon the support and the required transmission of lateral forces generated by braking from the housing to the support, without damage to the housing or its caliper connecting bolts or malfunctioning due to binding.