Opposed-piston disc brake caliper

• US 9,746,042 B2
• Filed: 01/15/2016
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Akebono Brake Industry Company Limited (Akebono Brake Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Akebono Brake Industry Company Limited (Akebono Brake Corporation)
• Inventors: Morio, Takefumi, Noguchi, Tetsuya, Suzuki, Tsuyoshi, Totsuka, Yoshio
• Primary Examiner(s): King, Bradley
• Application Number:
  US14/996,305
• Publication Number:
  US 20160208872A1
• Time in Patent Office: 592 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2055/0016 Brake calipers
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2125/04 Cylinders
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 55/228 with a separate actuating member for each side
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 65/18 adapted for drawing members together , e.g. for disc brakes

Abstract

In an opposed-piston disc brake caliper, a pair of reinforcement bridge portions, which are inclined relative to an axial direction, are provided on outside of a rotor in a radial direction of the rotor so as to define corner opening portions in an opening portion which is defined by an inner body portion, an outer body portion, and an entry-side connection portion and an exit-side connection portion connecting the inner body portion and the outer body portion. A torque receiving portion of one of the entry-side torque receiving portion and the exit-side torque receiving portion is exposed toward an outside in the radial direction via the corner opening portions.

Claims

1. An opposed-piston disc brake caliper comprising:

an inner body portion, provided so as to face an inner-side surface of a rotor that rotates along with a wheel, and including an inner cylinder which opens toward the inner-side surface of the rotor;

an outer body portion, provided so as to face an outer-side surface of the rotor, and including an outer cylinder which opens toward the outer-side surface of the rotor;

an entry-side connection portion and an exit-side connection portion, provided on outside of the rotor in a radial direction of the rotor, and connecting both end portions of the inner body portion to both end portions of the outer body portion in a circumferential direction of the rotor;

an entry-side torque receiving portion and an exit-side torque receiving portion, configured to bear torque which is applied to a pair of pads when a brake is applied, while the pair of pads is supported so as to be displaced in an axial direction of the rotor with the rotor being interposed therebetween; and

an opening portion, passing in the radial direction through a region surrounded by both the inner body portion and the outer body portion and both the entry-side connection portion and the exit-side connection portion,

wherein a pair of reinforcement bridge portions, which are inclined relative to the axial direction, are provided on the outside of the rotor in the radial direction so as to define corner opening portions in the opening portion,

wherein the corner opening portions are divided off from other portions of the opening portion, and are displaced outside of the reinforcement bridge portions in the circumferential direction,

one of the reinforcement bridge portions bridges a gap from an axial intermediate portion of an inner end edge of at least one of the entry-side connection portion and the exit-side connection portion, the inner end edge defining a circumferential end portion of the opening portion, to a portion on the one connection portion side of the inner body portion in the circumferential direction where the inner body portion is positionally aligned with the inner cylinder,

the other of the reinforcement bridge portions bridges a gap from the axial intermediate portion of the inner end edge of the one connection portion to a portion on the one connection portion side of the outer body portion in the circumferential direction where the outer body portion is positionally aligned with the outer cylinder, and

wherein at least one of the entry-side torque receiving portion and the exit-side torque receiving portion is exposed toward the outside in the radial direction via the corner opening portions.

2. The opposed-piston disc brake caliper according to claim 1,

wherein a circumferential outer end portion of the one reinforcement bridge portion is connected to the axial intermediate portion of the inner end edge of the one connection portion via a joint portion extending in the circumferential direction.

3. The opposed-piston disc brake caliper according to claim 1,

wherein the reinforcement bridge portions are respectively provided in both the entry-side connection portion and the exit-side connection portion in a bridging manner.

4. The opposed-piston disc brake caliper according to claim 1,

wherein a circumferential intermediate portion of the inner body portion is connected to a circumferential intermediate portion of the outer body portion via a central bridge portion that is provided on the outside of the rotor in the radial direction.

5. The opposed-piston disc brake caliper according to claim 4,

wherein an entry-side portion of the central bridge portion is set to have a radial thickness dimension larger than that of an exit-side portion of the central bridge portion.

6. The opposed-piston disc brake caliper according to claim 1,

wherein both the entry-side torque receiving portion and the exit-side torque receiving portion are integrally provided in each of the inner body portion and the outer body portion.

7. The opposed-piston disc brake caliper according to claim 1,

wherein the corner opening portion opens both in the radial direction and in the axial direction.

8. The opposed-piston disc brake caliper according to claim 1,

wherein the corner opening portion opens both in the radial direction and in the circumferential direction.