Disc brake, disc brake caliper and disc brake shoe

• US 5,957,245 A
• Filed: 08/05/1997
• Issued: 09/28/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (ITT, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (ITT, Inc.)
• Inventors: Skvarce, Jeffrey R., Keck, Daniel D., Anger, Stefan U.
• Primary Examiner(s): Oberleitner, Robert J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lipka, Pamela J.
• Application Number:
  US08/905,984
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• Field of Search: 188/71.1, 188/73.1, 188/73.45, 188/250 B, 188/258
• US Class Current: 188/71.1
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2055/0016 Brake calipers
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2055/0041 Resilient elements interposed directly between the actuating member and the brake support, e.g. anti-rattle springs
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2055/0091 Plural actuators arranged side by side on the same side of the rotor
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 55/227 by two or more pins
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 65/092 for axially-engaging brakes, e.g. disc brakes

Abstract

In order to realize a two-piston floating caliper disc brake with a wide caliper, the axially outer side of the caliper is supported by radially extending protrusions shaped on the outer brake shoe. While the two protrusions have the same depth, they differ in their width. Corresponding circular grooves within the caliper around recess openings on the opposite side of the brake cylinders, however, are identical. Therefore, a radial support of the brake caliper can be carried out by both protrusions while a tangential positioning of the caliper is limited to the wider one of the two protrusions.

Claims

1. A disc brake comprising:

a brake disc having a central axis,

a brake support member straddling the disc and having two supporting arms which are spaced in peripheral direction of the disc brake and between which a pair of brake shoes is disposed, each of the brake shoes being disposed on a different side of the disc and being guided on guide surfaces extending parallel to the central axis of the disc and attached to the support member,

a brake caliper disposed between the supporting arms and axially embracing the disc and the pair of brake shoes, said caliper having an axially inner and an axially outer side with one of the brake shoes next to the inner side and the other brake shoe next to the outer side, the caliper carrying two brake cylinders on the inner side, each encompassing an axially slidable brake piston in direct actuating relationship with the brake shoe next to the inner side, and

an axial sliding guide arrangement carried by the support member and adapted to axially guide at least the inner side of the caliper,

wherein the caliper has two recess openings at the outer side, both having an edge, along each of which is radially extending cavity is shaped at the axial location of the brake shoe next to the outer side and

wherein the brake shoe next to the outer side has two radial protrusions, each adapted to mesh with one of the radial cavities, at least on of the protrusions having a peripheral clearance within the cavity wherein a first of the two protrusions is shaped to loosely fit in the respective cavity while the other protusion with respect to the disc radially extends as far as the first protrusion, but has a smaller extent in peripheral direction.

2. The disc brake of claim 1, wherein the radial cavities are grooves which have a circular shape and are concentric with the brake cylinders.

3. The disc brake of claim 1, wherein the first protrusion is shaped like a segment of a circle while the other protrusion has an edge of only partially circular shape at a central portion of the protrusion.

4. A disc brake shoe of lengthy shape with two sliding projections, one at each end, and with two protrusions extending from a long side, each having a width that is greater than the extent in which the protrusions project from the long side, the protrusions having a distance from each other greater than at least one of the widths of the two protrusions wherein one of the two protrusions is wider than the other.

5. The brake shoe of claim 4, wherein the wider protrusion is shaped like a circular segment.

6. The brake shoe of claim 5, wherein the other protrusion has an edge of an only partially circular shape at a central portion of the protrusion.