A brake pad for a disk brake of a vehicle, in particular a rail vehicle, includes a backing plate, to which a plurality of friction units is fastened, each using a securing element supported on the rear side of the backing plate facing away from the friction unit, wherein each friction unit has, on the side of the backing plate facing away from the securing element, a friction element, which is mounted for tilting by means of a spherical-portion-shaped attachment and under the load of a spring supported on the backing plate, is designed in such a way that an annular disk is arranged between the spring and the friction element, at least some regions of said disk lying against the spring and the friction element.

A friction lining holding spring and the equipped component/assembly, specifically a motor vehicle disc brake lining, including the friction lining holding spring. The friction lining holding spring includes an offset knee piece of a U-spring leg, which branches off at an angle from a largely flat U base section, and wherein the largely flat base section has a fastening tab with a cup-shaped rim hole including a through-opening for the purpose of fixing on a backplate of the friction lining, wherein each knee piece has integrated gearing, which is in particular designed as an uneven brake piston insertion trajectory such that, when a brake piston is inserted, there is a predefined gearing reduction effect for the purpose of automatically influencing or modelling the necessary force requirement.

A friction lining holding spring and the equipped component/assembly, specifically a motor vehicle disc brake lining, including the friction lining holding spring. The friction lining holding spring includes an offset knee piece of a U-spring leg, which branches off at an angle from a largely flat U base section, and wherein the largely flat base section has a fastening tab with a cup-shaped rim hole including a through-opening for the purpose of fixing on a backplate of the friction lining, wherein each knee piece has integrated gearing, which is in particular designed as an uneven brake piston insertion trajectory such that, when a brake piston is inserted, there is a predefined gearing reduction effect for the purpose of automatically influencing or modelling the necessary force requirement.

A disc brake assembly that includes at least one brake pad retraction spring and a sensor assembly. The brake pad retraction spring extends between a pair of brake pad assemblies. The sensor assembly includes at least one sensor and a wire harness. The sensor is disposed on a brake pad assembly. The wire harness is attached to the brake pad retraction spring.

A disc brake assembly that includes a brake caliper, a retainer strap, and a sensor assembly. The retainer strap is mounted to the brake caliper and extends across a brake pad assembly. The sensor assembly is mounted to the retainer strap and generates a signal indicative of a position of the brake pad assembly.

The present disclosure relates to a brake lining arrangement for a vehicle disc brake, comprising at least one brake lining carrier plate, at least one friction lining, and at least one restoring element. The friction lining is attached to the front surface of the at least one brake lining carrier plate. The at least one restoring element is fastened to the rear surface of the at least one brake lining carrier plate and may be coupled to a brake caliper of the vehicle disc brake. At least one restoring element has at least two spring portions. The at least one restoring element is configured such that the at least two spring portions of the at least one restoring element act on the brake caliper under pretensioning.

A novel disc brake shim and a disc brake that can effectively suppress vibration and squeal are provided. The disc brake shim that is formed of a multilayer structure with three layers or more including at least a base material layer formed of a metal sheet, and a foamed rubber layer that is laminated on a main surface on one side of the base material layer, wherein the foamed rubber layer is an intermediate layer of the multilayer structure, and the disc brake including pad materials on both sides in an axial direction of a disc rotor, and shims on opposite sides from the disc rotor, of the pad materials adjacently, wherein each of the shims is the disc brake shim according to the present invention.

The present disclosure relates to a disc brake arrangement comprising, a brake carrier, at least one brake lining, and at least one positioning device. The brake carrier comprises a brake disc shaft, comprising at least one outer face which is a side remote from the brake disc shaft, comprising at least one inner face which is a side facing the brake disc shaft, and comprising guide grooves which run in each case from the outer face to the inner face, the direction thereof defining an actuating direction, and which are formed in each case from two opposing guide surfaces and a support surface connecting the guide surfaces. The at least one brake lining comprises a friction lining and a lining carrier which is displaceably mounted by guide ears in the guide grooves in the actuating direction. The at least one positioning device comprises a guide and comprises a clamping device, the brake lining and the brake carrier being coupled thereby so as to be displaceable relative to one another. The clamping device has at least one protruding, elastically-acting clamping element which, due to the elastic deformation in an operating configuration of the positioning device, brings about both a frictional connection between the clamping device and the guide, which permits a wear adjustment and generates a restoring force when an actuating force is applied to the positioning device. The disclosure further relates to a mounting method for mounting a positioning device in the disc brake arrangement.

Disclosed are a pad spring and a caliper brake having the same. The pad spring, which is installed on a coupling projection protruding from a carrier to slidably support a pair of pad plates, includes a first return part formed to extend downwardly from an upper side of the pad spring to elastically support and return the pad plate to its original position, and a second return part spaced apart from the first return part by a predetermined distance and provided at a position where the first return part is elastically deformed depending on an operation of the pad plate, wherein when the first return part is elastically deformed, the second return part comes into contact with the first return part to be elastically deformed together with the first return part and apply an elastic restoring force to the pad plate.

An electric motor with a rotor and a stator, where the rotor and/or the stator can comprise two or more sections, and a torque ripple caused by the magnetic field(s) associated with a section of the rotor (or stator) can at least partially counters torque ripple caused by the magnetic field(s) associated with other section(s) of the rotor (or stator).