Patent ID: 8794397

Claim:
A pad for disc brakes comprising a friction material layer and a plate acting as the support for said friction material layer, wherein said plate extends past the friction material layer at least at a radially outer portion of the pad, two loads are applied to opposite ends of the plate and fixed thereto by means of clinching, said loads changing the mass of the pad such as to obtain an inertia of the pad which substantially avoids vibrations of the pad during braking action, which otherwise would cause noisiness of the disc brake, each said load comprises at least one abutment surface abutting the edge of the plate thereby preventing rotation of the load about an axis of rotation of the disc, each said load comprises a projection which may be clinched, said plate has holes therein for receiving said projections, each of said projections is inserted through a respective one of said holes and clinched to fix the respective load to the plate, and each said load has substantially an L-shape.