Patent ID: 6957724
Filing Date: 2005-10-25
Classification: F16D

Abstract:
1. A disk-brake unit comprising: a caliper body extending astride a braking disk and including complementary stop means formed in the caliper body for restraining at least one pair of brake pads; a pin for positioning each of said brake pads relative to said caliper body; and a substantially “M”-shaped single element between the pin and said brake pads for positioning said brake pads relative to said pin, said single element comprising a pair of limbs, wherein each limb in said pair of limbs has a first arm and a second arm extending in different planes, and a substantially hook shaped bent end, wherein said single element maintains a suspension of each said brake pad away from said pin, urges each said brake pad toward said complementary stop means in a direction substantially tangential to said braking disk, and urges each said brake pad away from said braking disk in a direction substantially perpendicular to a radius of said braking disk, and wherein said second arm comprises a curved portion shaped like a leaf spring that preloads the suspension of each said brake pad in said pair of brake pads on said pin so as to move a friction lining of said brake pad away from said pin.