Gap adjusting mechanism of a wet brake
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki, Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakashi Nishihara, Teruo Sanada
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Abstract
By rotating a regulating bolt about an axis thereof to move forward/backward with respect to a protrusion portion, a lever is rotated about a shaft portion of an adjusting member. Therefore, the shaft portion of an adjusting member is rotated together with the lever to adjust a gap formed between a disk and a piston. After the gap is adjusted, the regulating bolt is fastened owing to a lock nut and a screw hole of the protrusion portion to thereby fix an forward/backward position of the regulating bolt with respect to the protrusion portion. In addition, a fixing bolt is screwed into a screw hole of a second housing portion to thereby fix a rotational position of the lever. Accordingly, the rotational position of the lever is double-locked.
Claims10
A gap adjusting mechanism of a wet brake, comprising:
- an adjusting member rotatably mounted to a housing of the wet brake;
- gap adjusting means engaged with the adjusting member for adjusting a gap formed between a disk and a piston of the wet brake owing to rotation of the adjusting member;
- a lever fixed to the adjusting member, the lever rotating together with the adjusting member;
- a regulating bolt screwed into a screw hole formed in the housing, the regulating bolt moving forward/backward with respect to the screw hole by being rotated about an axis thereof for regulating a rotational position of the lever with a tip end portion of the regulating bolt abutting against the lever in a rotational direction of the lever;
- a regulating bolt fixing member for fixing a forward/backward position of the regulating bolt with respect to the screw hole;
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- a lever fixing member for fixing a rotational position of the lever with respect to the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.