Floating brake caliper having plate shape section for resting against brake pad as well as tool and method for machining the same

Abstract

The invention concerns a floating brake caliper for a vehicle disc brake, the brake caliper comprising a first portion that is arrangeable adjacent to a first side face of a brake disc of the vehicle disc brake and that is configured to receive a brake piston, a second portion that is arrangeable adjacent to a second side face of the brake disc wherein the second portion is configured to rest against a rear face of a brake pad of the vehicle disc brake, and wherein the second portion has a plate-shaped section that is configured to cover a geometric centre of the rear face of the brake pad and to cover at least half of the surface of the rear face of the brake pad and the invention also concerns a toll and method for surface machining of a brake caliper.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.