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| 701079000 | Having speed variation responsive means (e.g., acceleration, deceleration) | 17 |
| 20080255745 | Method and Device for Controlling an Electronic Brake of a Vehicle - In a method for controlling an electromechanical brake of a vehicle, the electromechanical brake having a braking element ( | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080262691 | Starting Aid - Disclosed is a method of preventing a vehicle in a starting maneuver from rolling into a direction opposite a direction of the starting maneuver. A brake force is built up or maintained on at least one wheel brake during standstill of the vehicle. The method is characterized in that a comparison between an engine rotational speed gradient and an engine rotational speed gradient threshold value as well as a comparison between a pedal travel, by which an accelerator pedal of the vehicle is depressed, and a pedal travel threshold value are performed, and in that the brake force at the wheel brake is reduced when it is established that the engine rotational speed gradient exceeds the engine rotational speed gradient threshold value, and/or the pedal travel, by which the accelerator pedal is depressed, exceeds the pedal travel threshold value. Also disclosed a device that is appropriate to implement the method. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080270000 | Preventive-Action Protection System in a Motor Vehicle - In a preventive-action protection system in a motor vehicle having safety devices for reducing the consequences of accidents, driving state data are acquired in a driving state sensor system, and are monitored at least with respect to a braking torque request by the driver. At least the braking torque request is evaluated in a braking request evaluation device, and is used to detect a state of emergency braking. When a state of emergency braking is present at least one of the safety devices is triggered. The braking torque request is acquired by at least two independent sensors and the signals of these two sensors are evaluated in parallel in the braking request evaluation means and are used to detect a state of emergency braking. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090012688 | ROAD SURFACE CONDITION DETECTION SYSTEM, ACTIVE SUSPENSION SYSTEM, ANTI-LOCK BRAKE SYSTEM, AND SENSOR UNIT THEREFOR - A road surface condition detection system capable of quickly and accurately detecting road surface conditions during vehicle running, an active suspension system and an anti-lock brake system using the road surface condition detection system, and a sensor unit for the road surface condition detection system are provided. A sensor unit, provided on a rotor of a rotation mechanism section of a wheel, has an acceleration sensor for detecting an acceleration occurring in the rotational direction of the wheel as the wheel rotates. A signal of the detected acceleration is received by a monitor device, the received signal is compared to a variation pattern of an acceleration signal for each road surface condition, the pattern being previously stored in a storage section to identify a road surface condition, and information of the identified condition is output. Drive control of the active suspension system and the anti-lock brake system is made based on the information of the road surface conditions. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090048753 | TWO-WHEELED MOTOR VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL METHOD AND SYSTEM - To reliably control and prevent rear wheel lifting caused by an abrupt brake operation. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090063001 | BRAKE FORCE CONTROL APPARATUS - When a brake force control arrangement senses starting of application of a swingback inducing force on a vehicle body through an application start timing sensing arrangement, the brake force control arrangement reduces a brake force. Then, when the brake force control arrangement senses ending of the application of the swingback inducing force on the vehicle body through an application end timing sensing arrangement, the brake force control arrangement increases the brake force. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090299597 | Pressure-controlled hydraulic brake system for a land craft - Hydraulic brake system for a land vehicle comprising a control unit ECU that is devised such that it supplies control signals ECU for controlling automatic braking operations of the brake system, a master cylinder, which has an output side, for generating brake pressure under the control of a driver, a first brake circuit I comprising a first controllable pump, which has an output side, for generating brake pressure in the first brake circuit I under the control of the control unit ECU, and a first valve arrangement having an input side, which is fluidically connected to the output side of the master cylinder, and an output side, which is fluidically connected to the output side of the first pump, wherein the first valve arrangement has an open operating state, in which the input side and the output side of the first valve arrangement are fluidically connected, and a closed operating state, in which the fluid connection between the input side and the output side of the first valve arrangement is interrupted, and method of controlling such a brake system, in which brake system and method during an automatic braking operation the first valve arrangement is opened and closed in such a way that a predetermined pressure is adjusted at the output side of the first valve arrangement. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100023237 | BRAKE CONTROL DEVICE FOR TWO-WHEELED MOTOR VEHICLE - The invention aims at providing a brake control device for a two-wheeled motor vehicle which can detect a hydraulic pressure of a wheel cylinder, determine release of a brake lever, and terminate an antilock brake system (ABS). | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100114448 | REDUCED ENERGY VACUUM PUMP CONTROL - A method is provided that includes determining a state of a vehicle ignition switch; determining a state of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle state including at least one of whether the vehicle is in a torque producing mode, whether the vehicle is moving, and whether the vehicle brake system is engaged; and, controlling the vacuum pump in response to the vehicle state and the ignition switch state. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20130166167 | VEHICLE BRAKE FLUID PRESSURE CONTROLLER - Embodiments disclose a vehicle brake fluid pressure controller. The controller includes: a normally-open proportional solenoid valve provided in a hydraulic passage extending from a hydraulic pressure source to a wheel brake; a normally-closed solenoid valve provided in a hydraulic passage extending from the wheel brake to the hydraulic pressure source; an antilock brake control module configured to perform an antilock brake control for suppressing the locking of a wheel by performing a pressure increase control, a pressure decrease control and a pressure holding control for a hydraulic pressure of the wheel brake, using the normally-open proportional solenoid valve and the normally-closed solenoid valve. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20130245910 | BRAKE FORCE CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE AND BRAKE FORCE CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE - A brake force control apparatus includes a diagonal two-system brake device and performs front-rear wheel distribution control of brake force by individually controlling the brake pressure of the left and right rear wheels so as to obtain a target relationship between a wheel speed of the left and right rear wheels and the front wheels during braking. It is determined whether or not a difference in wheel speed between one wheel of one system and one wheel of the other system or a difference in wheel speed between the other wheel of the one system and the other wheel of the other system exceeds a threshold. When the threshold is exceeded, the reduction of brake pressure by the front-rear wheel distribution control of brake force is not performed with respect to a rear wheel with a lower wheel speed from among the left and right rear wheels. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130325282 | BRAKE-PEDAL DEPRESSION FORCE ESTIMATION DEVICE, BRAKE-PEDAL DEPRESSION FORCE ESTIMATION METHOD, AND BRAKING CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A brake-pedal depression force estimation device includes: a first deceleration calculation unit which uses a vehicle-mounted wheel speed sensor to calculate a first estimated vehicle-body deceleration for the vehicle; a second deceleration calculation unit which uses a vehicle-mounted vehicle-body acceleration sensor to calculate a second estimated vehicle-body deceleration for the vehicle; a gradient acquisition unit which acquires the gradient of change for the first estimated vehicle-body deceleration; and a depression force determination unit which determines if the brake-pedal depression force applied by a driver is high or not. The gradient acquisition unit acquires a first gradient of change and a second gradient of change. The depression force determination unit is configured so as to determine the brake-pedal depression force applied by a driver to be high when the second gradient of change is equal to or exceeds the first gradient of change. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140180555 | Method for Brake Control of a Vehicle Combination and Brake Control Unit for a Tractor Vehicle - In a method for controlling the brakes of a vehicle combination having a tractor equipped with an electronically controlled brake system, at least one front axle and one rear axle, and a trailer having at least one trailer axle, in the event of a brake actuation, a deceleration setpoint value is ascertained and compared to a deceleration actual value, and a current brake-application energy reference value is ascertained therefrom. Brake-application energy setpoint values for the tractor and trailer are ascertained from the current brake-application energy reference value and brake-application energy levels for the tractor and trailer while using stored characteristic maps, which illustrate the dependencies of the brake-application energy levels on the brake-application energy reference value or on the axle load distribution of the tractor. The characteristic maps are obtained as a function of at least one pre-definable influencing factor. For this, a loading state of the tractor and/or of the trailer and/or the vehicle combination is ascertained. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140214300 | BAR-HANDLE VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL APPARATUS - One embodiment provides a bar-handle vehicle brake control apparatus. The control apparatus includes an acceleration acquiring part and a control unit. The acceleration acquiring part acquires a tangential acceleration at a point where a straight line which connects a gravity center of a bar-handle vehicle and a front wheel axle intersects a circle which is centered at the front wheel axle. The control unit controls a front wheel brake based on the tangential acceleration. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20150046057 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE ELECTRONIC CONTROL OF THE BRAKE FORCE DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO THE DIFFERENTIAL SLIP - A method and device for the electronic control of the brake force distribution according to a differential slip or differential speed between at least one wheel of the front axle and at least one wheel of the rear axle of a vehicle, in which, when a differential slip threshold value or a differential speed threshold value is exceeded by the differential slip or the differential speed, the brake pressure at the rear axle is limited, characterized in that the differential slip threshold value or the differential speed threshold value is determined according to the braking request. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150073678 | BRAKING FORCE CONTROL DEVICE - A braking force control device includes a braking device capable of individually adjusting braking force generated at each wheel of a vehicle; and a control device capable of executing braking force distribution control to individually control the braking force of each of right and left wheels such that slip states of the right and left wheels of the vehicle become equivalent by controlling the braking device. The control device executes the braking force distribution control based on a change rate upper limit of a change rate of lateral braking force deviation which is deviation of the braking force of the right and left wheels, so that there is an effect that behavior of the vehicle can be stabilized. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20160375347 | System And Method For Regulated And/Or Limited Speed Control - Provided is a speed control system, a method for using a speed control system, a use of a speed control system, a roller ski using the speed control system, and a ski pole insert for the speed control system. A speed control system ( | 12-29-2016 |
