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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Tokico Ltd., Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D 6/5095 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D 6/5095 ;
Abstract
A disc brake includes a carrier with an inner beam secured to a knuckle, a pair of in board and outboard brake pad assemblies located on opposite sides of a rotor and slideably supported on the carrier, and a caliper extending over the periphery of the rotor and axially moved to urge the in board and outboard brake pad assemblies into frictional engagement with the opposite sides of the rotor. The carrier is constructed so that the difference in natural frequency between a bending mode and a torsion mode is at least 300 Hz. The carrier has a moment of inertia of area/polar moment of inertia of area ratio of at least 0.75.