A disk brake with lower cost and improved maintainability is provided. The brake caliper includes at least one actuating device for actuating the disc brake using a moveably guided bridge. The bridge has at least one threaded hole into which an actuating spindle is displaceably located. A brake disk end of the actuating spindle penetrates a caliper closing plate facing the brake disk. The positioning spindle carries a rotatably-mounted pressure piece which presses a brake pad against the brake disc. The opening is sealed by a bellows retained on the brake caliper on one side and on the pressure piece on the other side. A securing ring non-rotatably located on the actuating spindle and rotatably connected to the thrust piece interacts with the bellows during brake application and/or release to maintain a desired air gap between the brake disk and brake pad.

This disc brake includes a mounting member, a pair of brake pads, a caliper, a cover member, and a locking member. The caliper includes a cylinder part having a cylinder hole in which a piston for moving one of the pair of brake pads is disposed, a bridge part extending across an outer circumferential surface of a disc from the cylinder part, a plurality of claw parts formed on an extended distal end side of the bridge part and disposed to face the cylinder part, and a recessed part provided between the plurality of claw parts, having an opening at a disc radial direction inner end, and formed to face the cylinder hole. The locking member includes a fixing part fixed to the cover member, and a plurality of locking pieces extending from the fixing part in a direction inclined with respect to a movement direction of the piston.

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.

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.

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).

A vehicle calliper disc brake comprising a brake disc connected to a vehicle wheel and having inboard and outboard side surfaces and a rotational axis; an actuator arranged in a calliper housing to displace at least one piston to actuate the disc brake; the calliper housing having facing first and second side walls on opposite sides of the brake disc, where the first side wall has at least one piston slidably mounted in a cavity between the side walls and where the second side wall is part of a calliper bridge extending from the first wall and spanning the brake disc.

A vehicle steering system comprises: a motor assembly operably coupled to a steering rack, the motor assembly comprising a motor having a rotor and a motor position sensor configured to sense a rotor angle of the motor in a single-turn range; and a rotary-to-linear conversion mechanism operably coupled between the motor assembly and the steering rack, the rotary-to-linear conversion mechanism comprising a rotor operably coupled to the rotor of the motor. A processor calculates an absolute angular position of the pinion in a full-turn range of rotation of the pinion based on the sensed rotor angle of the motor and a pinion angle sensed by a pinion angle sensor in a single-turn range, or based on the sensed rotor angle of the motor and an angle of the rotor of the rotary-to-linear conversion mechanism sensed by an angular position sensor in the single-turn range.

Provided is a caliper brake pad spring applying load to a brake pad in a set position. A spring mounting unit is mounted on a window of a caliper body. Spring pressing units extend from both sides of the spring mounting unit in one direction to apply load to a brake pad by pressing the brake pad.

A load lowering descent controller having a fixed cylindrical body or capstan about which a rope or cable is turned. The descent controller allows for lowering of the load at a controlled rate by adjusting the amount of friction between the controller and the rope or cable as a function of rope or cable turning and relative contact with rope or cable engagement surfaces in the controller. The fixed cylindrical body or capstan is surrounded by a vented sleeve to prevent the rope from becoming heated and to prevent the user from being injured.

An urging spring (15) urges a friction pad toward the exit side of the rotational direction of a disk when a vehicle equipped with the disk brake runs forward. The urging spring is disposed between a lug portion (11A) of the friction pad and a torque receiving surface (5) of a carrier (2). The distal end of the urging spring is configured to abut against the disk to perform wear detection. The urging spring includes a mounting portion (15A), a first extending portion (15B), a boundary region (15E), a bent portion (15C), and a second extending portion (15D). The boundary region is reduced in width to lower stiffness. The bent portion is increased in width and provided with reinforcing portions, thereby enhancing the stiffness. Thus, the natural frequencies of the second extending portion in the rotational direction K and the vertical direction J come close to each other.