Patent ID: 7866448

Claim:
An aircraft brake for braking a wheel received on an axle presenting in succession a large-diameter cylindrical upstream portion, a conical portion, and a smaller-diameter cylindrical downstream portion suitable for receiving the wheel, the brake comprising: a stack of disks; a structural part engaged on the axle and having the disks mounted thereon, the structural part comprising: a ring for receiving braking actuators and including a centering portion for centering the structural part on the upstream cylindrical portion of the axle; and a torsion tube receiving the disks, the torsion tube being made integrally with the ring and the centering portion and extending substantially to extend the centering portion in register with the conical portion of the axle; and a braking force takeup part separably fitted on a free end of the torsion tube remote from the centering portion; and wherein the braking force takeup part includes a bearing surface for centering on the axle.