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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 1990
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1988
Rolf Weiler, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Wolfgang Endler, Hofheim, DE;
Alfred Teves GmbH, Frankfurt, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a pin guiding and/or damping element for floating-caliper spot-type disc brakes, the brake comprising a brake carrier (8) as well as a brake housing (10) which is axially slideable thereto and which straddles a brake disc and brake shoes, while the brake carrier and/or the brake housing is further provided with at least one pin (4) which is guided in a bore (12) of the housing and/or the brake carrier (8), as well as with at least one elastic guiding and/or damping portion seated in the bore. In order to accomplish a good damping as well as an improved protection for the entire guiding length of the guiding pin (4), it is provided that the guiding and damping portion (14) is furnished with a pleated bellows portion (16) at least one of its ends, and that adjacent to this pleated bellows portion (16), there is provision of a rolling diaphragm (22).