Patent ID: 8544614

Claim:
A brake pad for a disc brake having a brake caliper configured to receive a brake pad in a radial direction through an opening that straddles a brake disc, the brake pad comprising: a brake pad backing plate having at least one brake pad retaining feature on each lateral side of the backing plate; and a brake pad lining material affixed to a brake disc-side of the brake pad backing plate, wherein each of the lateral brake pad retaining features has a vertical height extending in a direction between top and bottom edges of the brake pad backing plate, a lateral width extending in a circumferential direction of the brake pad backing plate and a thickness extending in a direction parallel to a rotation axis of the brake disc when the brake pad is in an installed position, the width and the thickness of each of the lateral brake pad retaining features are dimensioned to allow the brake pad to be inserted radially through the brake caliper opening into a radially-oriented brake pad insertion feature of the disc brake adjacent to a side of the caliper opening furthest away from the brake disc, and the height, the width and the thickness of each of the lateral brake pad retaining features are dimensioned to allow the brake pad, following radial insertion through the brake caliper opening, to be advanced toward the brake disc and engage into at least one lateral brake pad receiving feature of the disc brake.