Patent ID: 9416830
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: F16D

Claim Text:
1. An actuator-driven brake having a multi-pad, comprising: a torque member; a spindle operated by a driving force from an actuator; a disc pressing assembly including an outside lever and an inside lever, wherein each one end of the outside lever and the inside lever is connected to the spindle and wherein the outside lever and the inside lever simultaneously press both sides of a brake disc by the spindle moving the outside lever and the inside lever closer to each other when the spindle rotates; and a brake pad assembly including at least two outside pads attached to an inner side of the outside lever and at least two inside pads attached to an inner side of the inside lever, wherein the outside lever and the inside lever extend circumferentially around the brake disc and the outside and inside levers are aligned to cross each other at a cross point thereof and to be decoupled from each other at the cross point, and wherein one outside pad of the at least two outside pads and one inside pad of the at least inside pads are adjacent to the spindle and is disposed between the cross point and the spindle such that, when the outside and inside levers move to the brake disc, the outside lever rotates around a first connection point of the outside lever and the one outside pad and the inside lever rotates around a second connection point of the inside lever and the one inside pad.