Traditionally, the Western World and Japanese markets have adopted different approaches in solving brake related noise. In Europe and North America, the traditional shim design has been of the multilayer bonded type (‘bonded’), whilst in Japan the main focus has been on clip-on and floating type (‘floating’) shim design (comprising two clip-on shims with grease in between, with the outer layer shim often consisting of stainless steel).

P-A Jarnestrom, Mats Eliasson, Mattias Ahlex Duncan Fumi Ronnie Axelsson -