Brake apparatus for vehicle
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorHyeong Sik Kim
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Abstract
A brake apparatus for a vehicle may include: a pair of pin members installed in a caliper body so as to be spaced apart from each other; a first brake pad movably coupled to the pair of pin members, and contactable with a brake disk; a second brake pad coupled to the pair of pin members so as to be spaced apart from the first brake pad, and contactable with the brake disk; a pressing part installed in the caliper body, and pressing the first brake pad to bring the first and second brake pads into contact with the brake disk; and a pad liner installed on the pair of pin members, and providing an elastic restoring force to the first and second brake pads such that the first and second brake pads are restored to the original state when the pressing of the pressing part is released.
Claims17
A brake apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- a pair of pin members installed in a caliper body so as to be spaced apart from each other;
- a first brake pad movably coupled to the pair of pin members, and contactable with a brake disk;
- a second brake pad coupled to the pair of pin members so as to be spaced apart from the first brake pad, and contactable with the brake disk;
- a pressing part installed in the caliper body, and configured to press the first brake pad to bring the first and second brake pads into contact with the brake disk;
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- a pad liner installed between the first brake pad and the second brake pad and configured to provide an elastic restoring force to the first and second brake pads such that the first and second brake pads are restored to the original state when the pressing of the pressing part is released, and applies a load to the first and second brake pads,
- wherein the pad liner includes a pair of pad liner support parts protruding from both ends of a pad liner body, respectively, and placed under the pair of pin members, and a pair of pad liner mounting parts bent and extended from the both ends of the pad liner body and configured to cover the pair of pin members supported by the pair of pad liner support parts such that the pad liner is provided to accommodate the pair of pin members between the pair of pad liner support parts and the pair of pad liner mounting parts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.