MUMBAI, India, March 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517019425 A) filed by Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.; and Honda Motor Co. Ltd., Ibaraki, Japan, on March 4, for 'disc brake.'

Inventor(s) include Zhang Xuesheng; Tsuchiya Yuta; Kihara Shinichi; Hirata Masahiko; and Yadori Hikaru.

The application for the patent was published on March 28, under issue no. 13/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A pad spring (24) on a rotation entry side in a disc rotation direction has: a first support part (131) that elastically supports a friction pad (27) in the disc rotation direction; and a second support part (120) that is offset in a disc radial direction with respect to the fi...