Patent ID: 7204352

Claim:
A brake device for a vehicle, said vehicle including a vehicle body frame, an engine mounted on said vehicle body frame, front wheels and rear wheels suspended from and capable of being oscillated with respect to said vehicle body frame, final gear cases for transmitting an output from said engine to said front wheels and said rear wheels, and power transmission shafts for transmitting a driving force from said engine to said rear wheels and said front wheels through said final gear cases, said brake device comprising: a brake disk fixed to at least one of said power transmission shafts, wherein said power transmission shafts are propeller shafts for connecting said engine and said final gear cases to each other; a brake caliper for braking by a nipping action with said brake disk, wherein said brake caliper includes: a caliper bracket fitted to at least one of said final gear cases by a pair of mounting bolts, a caliper body detachably fitted to said caliper bracket, a pair of fixing bolts securing said caliper body to said caliper bracket, wherein said pair of fixing bolts includes a first bolt and a second bolt extending substantially in parallel with said power transmission shafts, a screw-fitting direction of said first fixing bolt being opposite to a screw-fitting direction of said second fixing bolt, and wherein said screw-fitting direction of said first bolt is offset with respect to said screw-fitting direction of said second bolt, and said brake caliper is capable of turning around one of said first and second bolts when either said first or second bolt is in a disengaged position; and a collar extending substantially parallel to at least one of said propeller shafts and fitted at a portion of the caliper bracket wherein the second fixing bolt is inserted through the caliper bracket and the collar from a rear side with respect to the vehicle body frame and is screw-fitted into female threads formed in said caliper body.