DISK BRAKE WITH STABILIZED BRAKE PADS, AND RELATED METHODS FOR ASSEMBLING AND REPLACING A PAD.

摘要

The invention relates to a disk brake that has a fork (11) with two opposing arms (14) each having a C-shaped axial seat (16) designed to receive a brake pad (12) with two opposing lateral lugs (26), each lug (26) receiving a pad spring (40) having at least one lower sliding branch (42), in which a laminar element (22) is interposed between the lug (26) and the C-shaped seat, said element (22) having a first lower sliding flange (24) receiving the sliding branch (42) of the pad spring and a second upper vertical supporting flange (25) in the seat (16), characterized in that the laminar element (22) is elastically deformable between an initial free state in which the sliding flange (24) and the lower face (34) of the seat (16) form a first acute angle (α) and at least one state of loading by the pad spring (40) in which the sliding flange (24) forms a second acute or zero angle (β) that is less than the first acute angle (α), and in which the sliding branch (42) of the pad spring (40) is pre-stressed.