Patent ID: 8240438

Claim:
A disc brake having a brake disc, comprising: a brake caliper enclosing the brake disc; brake pads fixed to brake pad carrier plates, one brake pad being arranged on each side of the brake disc; a rotary brake lever; and a brake application device, which is fitted laterally beside the brake disc and which is equipped with at least two pistons situated transversely in relation to the brake disc and carried in a bridge, end faces of said pistons being assigned to an opposing one of the brake pad carrier plates and coming into contact with the opposing brake pad carrier plate; wherein the end faces of the pistons and at least contact faces of the opposing brake pad carrier plate are provided with positively intermeshing profiles of alternating grooves and lands such that the opposing brake pad is displaceable in a peripheral direction, wherein angles of inclination or ramp angles of the grooves and lands stand at an angle of between 15° and 40° to a face of the respective pistons and brake pad carrier plate having the profiles, and wherein a coefficient of friction of the brake pad with respect to the brake disc is approximately 0.375.