Patent ID: 7318467

Claim:
A casting method for manufacturing a caliper body of a vehicular disc brake, said vehicular disc brake having a pair of frictional pads disposed opposite to each other with a disc rotor held therebetween, said caliper body including a cylinder disposed on one side of the disc rotor, a reaction pawl disposed on the other side of the disc rotor, and a bridge for coupling said cylinder and said reaction pawl at the outer peripheral side of the disc rotor, said casting method comprising: forming a cavity corresponding to a shape of said caliper body while the side of molding said bottom portion of said cylinder is disposed in a vertically upper part of said cavity and also the side of molding said reaction pawl is disposed in a vertically lower part of said cavity; and molding a base material into said cavity through a sprue which is disposed at a portion molding said bottom portion of said cylinder.