Disk brake device
AssigneeAkebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorToshifumi Maehara
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Abstract
A cam housing assembly oscillates in association with rotation of an eccentric cam which is attached to a camshaft and is allowed to press a clutch by cam pins of the cam housing assembly. A pair of piston assemblies are provided of which each includes a piston which can slide within a sleeve, a spindle and a nut which screws on to the spindle and are supported in hole portions in a caliper body so as to oscillate therein, whereby a brake pad is pressed against by a plug after the spindle, the nut and the piston are sequentially pressed by pressing a clutch by the cam pins. Since the spindle and the nut are screwed on to each other through a reversible screw, a gap is adjusted automatically as the pad wears.
Claims2
A disk brake device comprising:
- a caliper body;
- a cam housing assembly, accommodated in the caliper body, configured to oscillate by rotation of an eccentric cam attached to a camshaft, and configured to press a clutch by a cam pin of the cam housing assembly;
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- a pair of piston assemblies accommodated in the caliper body, each of which comprising a piston adapted to slide within a sleeve, a plug being in contact with the distal end of the piston, a spindle and a nut which is screwed on the spindle,
- wherein the distal end of the piston and the plug are in contact with each other on concave and convex spherical surfaces so that each of the piston assemblies is oscillatably supported in a hole portion of the caliper body,
- wherein the piston assemblies are configured to press a brake pad through sequential pushing of the spindle, the nut and the piston by pushing the clutch by the cam pin, and
- wherein each of the piston assemblies is oscillatably supported by an oscillation support pin which is parallel to the cam pin and which is inserted through the sleeve and through a guide ring attached to the sleeve, so that the sleeve is adapted to be tilted with respect to the oscillation support pin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.