US Patent Issued to AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY on Jan. 27 for "Caliper for opposed piston type disc brake" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,111, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Caliper for opposed piston type disc brake" was invented by Asami Madambashi (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a caliper for an opposed piston type disc brake, including: an inner body including an inner cylinder portion; an outer body including an outer cylinder portion; and a rotation-in side connecting portion and a rotation-out side connecting portion. The end portions on both circumferentially outer sides of the outer body are connected to the rotation-in side connecting portion and the rotation-out...