US 12,338,866 B2
Brake pad; pad assembly; brake caliper assembly
Andrea Mecocci, Bergamo (IT); Stefano Zaghi, Bergamo (IT); Nicolas Minucci, Bergamo (IT); and Alberto Pendesini, Bergamo (IT)
Assigned to Brembo S.p.A., Bergamo (IT)
Filed by Brembo S.p.A., Bergamo (IT)
Filed on Sep. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/930,170.
Claims priority of application No. 102021000023168 (IT), filed on Sep. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0076059 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. F16D 65/092 (2006.01); F16D 55/00 (2006.01); F16D 65/00 (2006.01); F16D 65/095 (2006.01)
CPC F16D 65/0068 (2013.01) [F16D 55/00 (2013.01); F16D 65/095 (2013.01); F16D 2055/0016 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A brake pad for a brake caliper, wherein said brake caliper comprises a caliper body adapted to be arranged straddling a brake disc,
said brake pad defining an axial direction, either coinciding with or parallel to the rotation axis of the brake disc, a radial direction, orthogonal to the axial direction, and a tangential direction or a circumferential direction, orthogonal to both the axial direction and the radial direction;
wherein said brake pad comprises at least one plate and at least one friction material supported by said plate; wherein said friction material comprises a friction material surface adapted to abut against a braking band of the brake disc, wherein said friction material surface has a center of gravity,
wherein said plate has a main extension along the radial direction and the tangential direction and has a plate thickness along the axial direction;
wherein said plate is provided with a first slot passing through the plate thickness,
wherein said first slot comprises a first slot edge adapted to accommodate with clearance a first pin mounted to the caliper body,
wherein said first slot edge comprises a tangentially inner portion of said first slot or first portion of said first slot, and a tangentially outer portion of said first slot or second portion of said first slot,
wherein said brake pad has a tangential center-of-gravity plane parallel to the tangential direction passing through said center of gravity and orthogonal to the radial direction passing through said center of gravity, characterized in that said first portion of said first slot and said second portion of said first slot are crossed by said tangential center-of-gravity plane so that under a reverse braking condition, said brake pad rests against said first pin in at least a first contact point of said first slot arranged on said first portion of said first slot, and under a forward braking condition, said brake pad rests on said first pin in at least a second contact point of said first slot arranged on said second portion of said first slot,
wherein said second contact point of said first slot lies in said tangential center-of-gravity plane.