US Patent Issued to AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY on April 8 for "Pad clip for disc brake apparatus and disc brake apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,442, issued on April 8, was assigned to AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pad clip for disc brake apparatus and disc brake apparatus" was invented by Sean Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pad clip in which a circumferential dimension from a first contact portion in contact with a side surface of a coupling portion, which is disposed on the other side in the circumferential direction, on the one side in the circumferential direction in a fixing portion disposed on the other side to a side surface of a sandwiched plate portion on the one side is available to be set independently of a circumferential dimension from...