IP Library Granted Patent US 11,994,181
Granted Patent B2
US 11,994,181 · App. 17/806,956 · Granted May 28, 2024

Disc brake caliper, method for manufacturing a caliper and caliper spring

Inventors: Fabio Scotti (Curno, IT); Alessandro Insabato (Curno, IT); Andrea Teruzzi (Curno, IT); Cristian Crippa (Curno, IT)
Assignee: Brembo S.p.A.
F16D65/0075B22C9/10F16D55/228F16D65/0068F16D2055/0016F16D2055/0091F16D2200/0021F16D2250/0007F16D2250/0015
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Patent No.
US 11,994,181
App. No.
17/806,956
Granted
May 28, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A disc brake caliper has a caliper body and a pair of pads and, in each side portion of the caliper body, a distal piston and a proximal piston, having radially distanced and aligned pressure centers.

Claims (19)

1. A lost core for the realization by gravity casting of a caliper body, comprising:

a core body intended to obtain the space in the caliper body for housing a pair of pads having friction material adapted to be supported by the caliper body;

intermediate chamber cores comprising a proximal piston chamber core and a distal piston chamber core, wherein each of the intermediate chamber cores project axially from first and second sides of the core body for the realization on each side of a proximal piston chamber and a distal piston chamber; and

a proximal branch core that protrudes from the proximal piston chamber core and extends towards the distal piston chamber core and a distal branch core that protrudes from the distal piston chamber core and extends towards the proximal piston chamber core;

wherein the proximal branch core and the distal branch core terminate with a respective free end separated from each other.

2. The lost core of claim 1 , wherein said proximal branch core and said distal branch core are adapted to form an oil feeding circuit in the caliper body.

3. The lost core of claim 1 , wherein pressure centers for caliper body pistons developed from said intermediate chamber cores and two side chamber cores fall at vertices of an imaginary rhombus for which a minor diagonal is disposed radially and a major diagonal is disposed laterally.

4. The lost core of claim 3 , wherein said minor diagonal intersects said major diagonal of the imaginary rhombus at a midpoint of the imaginary rhombus.

5. The lost core of claim 3 , wherein each of said first and second sides of said core body has a total of only four pressure centers.

6. The lost core of claim 3 , wherein the pressure centers fall within peripheral contours of each pad of the pair of pads.

7. The lost core of claim 4 , wherein said pressure centers are arranged so that said major diagonal extends between said side chamber cores without intersecting with said immediate chamber cores.

8. A lost core for a caliper body, comprising:

a core body to create the caliper body including a pair of pads having friction material adapted to be supported by the caliper body;

first and second intermediate chamber cores comprising a proximal piston chamber core and a distal piston chamber core, wherein the intermediate chamber cores project axially from both first and second sides of the core body to create on each side of a proximal piston chamber and a distal piston chamber for the caliper body, wherein said first and second intermediate chamber cores are the only intermediate chamber cores; and

a proximal branch core that protrudes from the proximal piston chamber core and extends towards the distal piston chamber core and a distal branch core that protrudes from the distal piston chamber core and extends towards the proximal piston chamber core;

wherein the proximal branch core and the distal branch core terminate with a respective free end separated from each other;

wherein centers of said cores are arranged at vertices of an imaginary rhombus for which a minor diagonal is disposed radially and a major diagonal is disposed laterally,

wherein said vertices fall within peripheral contours of each pad of the pair of pads;

wherein vertices are arranged so that said major diagonal extends between two side chamber cores without intersecting with said immediate chamber cores.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 14, 2022
From: FRENI BREMBO - S.P.A
To: BREMBO S.P.A
Reel/Frame 061933/0638 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 15, 2022
From: SCOTTI, FABIO; INSABATO, ALESSANDRO; TERUZZI, ANDREA; CRIPPA, CRISTIAN
To: FRENI BREMBO S.P.A.
Reel/Frame 060206/0739 →
Priority Claims (1)
IT 102015000073426 · Nov 17, 2015 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 15776829
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