Abstract: Brake fluid pressure control unit improved for smaller size and lower cost. A motor for a pump ms mounted in the circuit block and the pump is mounted on one axial end of the motor. The pressure adjusting units having solenoid valves are arranged around the motor. The case of the motor has a portion forming a part of a magnetic circuit through which magnetic fluxes produced in the coils or the solenoid valves flow.

Abstract: Brake for bicycles, for each wheel consisting of two independent levers, right and left, linked to the yoke in coincident positions and which are carriers for securing the traction cable and for the fitting of a brake shoe holder. Each lever includes at least two securing points for the brake shoe holder located at different distances from the linking shaft of the lever to the yoke. When the brakes are operated, these securing points describe arcs of different radii, which are located at different distances from the axis of the wheel. It allows wheels of different diameter to be fitted.

Abstract: A proportioning module for automatically changing the ratio of delivery pressure to control pressure according to whether a mode control pressure is present or absent. When the mode control pressure is present, the proportioning module is deactivated, causing the delivery pressure to be substantially equivalent to control pressure. When the mode control pressure is absent, the proportioning module functions to provide control pressure to delivery pressure ratios which are dependant upon the control pressure and the resultant delivery pressure.

Abstract: A suspension control system for an automotive vehicle is provided which utilizes variable damping force shock absorbers for modifying damping force characteristics. Each of the shock absorbers has an electric motor adapted for varying an effective fluid flow restriction established by an orifice when modifying the damping force characteristics. When the electric motor is energized to initialize an angular position thereof upon starting the suspension control, operating torque of the motor is decreased below a preselected level for reducing reaction force from a stopper when an output shaft of the motor is urged into engagement with the stopper arranged at an original angular position of the motor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure-regulating device for a hydraulic circuit, especially for a brake circuit of a motor vehicle, comprising at least one source of fluid under pressure (10) connected to a reservoir of fluid under low pressure (16) and, in at least one subcircuit (I, II), a second source of fluid under pressure (50) and two pressure receivers (20, 22). According to the invention, a proportional solenoid valve (24, 26) is associated with each pressure receiver (20, 22) and is connected to the source of fluid under pressure (10) and to the second source of fluid under pressure (50), and a differential pressure/vacuum valve (100) closes, at rest, communication between the source of fluid under pressure (10) and the supply of the second source of fluid under pressure (50), this communication being opened when the second source of fluid under pressure is put into operation.

Abstract: A method and system for modifying anti-lock brake control to a vehicle braking on a surface having a low-mu to split-mu transition. The time duration of the apply stage of an anti-lock brake system cycle is measured for the two front wheels. The measured apply stage durations are compared to a threshold. The braking coefficients of the two front wheels are qualified based on these comparisons. Each wheel is qualified as normal-duration if the apply stage duration is less than the threshold, and long-duration if the apply stage duration is greater than the threshold. Normal low-mu pressure control is continued if both front wheels are qualified as normal-duration. Split-mu pressure control is activated when exactly one of the front wheels is qualified as long-duration. The split-mu pressure control restricts the rate of brake pressure applied to the long-duration wheel. Low-mu to high-mu pressure control is utilized when both wheels are qualified as long-duration.

Abstract: An energy absorbing device comprising: an elongate body arranged along a longitudinal axis to receive an axial impact force at a first end thereof; apparatus arranged adjacent a second end of the body for deformation thereof; die apparatus for producing deformation of the body and a ring fixed to the die apparatus and surrounding the body. Also disclosed is a repeatable energy absorption device including crushing apparatus having threaded apparatus on its outside surface. Upon receipt of the axial impact, the first end of the body moves from a first position away from the crushing apparatus to a second position closer to the crushing apparatus. The device additionally includes threaded sleeve apparatus having a first end for supporting the crushing apparatus and for moving the crushing apparatus toward the first end after the axial impact, to return the first end of the body to the first position.

Abstract: In a brake-pressure control device for a road vehicle, having an antilock braking system whose braking device comprises a vacuum brake power assist unit which has a vacuum chamber connected to the intake stub of the vehicle engine and a working chamber which can be subjected to a higher pressure via a control element operable by the brake pedal, a position sensor is provided which detects the position of the brake pedal and generates output signals. An electronic control unit processes these signals and generates drive signals for a brake-pressure control device making it possible to couple into the wheel brakes a higher brake pressure than would otherwise correspond to the instantaneous pedal position. Such driving of the brake-pressure control device is triggered when the speed .PHI. at which the brake pedal is operated overshoots a prescribed threshold value .PHI..sub.s.

Abstract: An anti-lock hydraulic brake system is described wherein a throttle valve has a restrictive flow condition which becomes effective in the brake line in the event of brake slip control. Pumps for reapply pressure deliver fluid to the wheel brake via this restriction and regulating the pressure in the wheel brake is performed by control of an outlet valve. The throttle valve is operated hydraulically by various arrangements including the application of pump pressure, or by wheel brake pressure applied upon opening of the outlet valve at the start of an anti-lock control cycle.

Abstract: A unitary hub and exciter ring for a motor vehicle equipped with an anti-lock braking system (ABS). The exciter ring is unitarily formed in the hub by machining grooves into the exterior surface of the hub and creating spaced teeth about the circumference of the hub. To ensure roundness and concentricity in the hub, and to ensure close tolerances in spacing between the ABS sensor and the teeth, machining is gaged off of bearing cups mounted within the internal bore of the hub.

Abstract: A hydraulic braking system for a towed vehicle provides actuation of the hydraulic pump motor of the towed vehicle responsive to an electrical switch which is closed upon application of the brake pedal of the towing vehicle. However, even after actuation of the hydraulic pump, the towed vehicle brakes are only able to be applied in response to sensed relative movement of the towing and towed vehicle toward each other. A break-away switch sets the trailer brakes in the event of accidental separation of the towed vehicle from the towing vehicle. The control valve may be used in other situations to control a hydraulic pump and associated hydraulic braking system.

Abstract: Brakes mounted on the wheels of slidably adjustable axles used with truck trailers are connected by a pair of flexible coiled tubes to service and emergency air lines. The flexible coiled tubes are mounted one within the other and have identical end fittings which connect directly to service and emergency air lines and directly to airbrake lines. No intermediate fittings are utilized. The end fittings of each coiled tube are also mounted in fixed relation to a transverse support bracket mounted on the trailer body and to a bracket mounted on a rear axle support. Each end fitting has first, second, and third threaded portions, with the first threaded portion coupled to the end of one of the coiled tubes, the second threaded portion being received through a hole in a bracket, and the third threaded portion being coupled with either an air pressure supply line or an airbrake line.

Abstract: An anti-lock system for motorcycles which includes a monitoring circuit (3) nd an overbraking preventer (4) which compares the front-wheel brake pressure continuously during the reloading phases with a pressure reference threshold and if the threshold is exceeded, with simultaneous exceeding of a high vehicle deceleration threshold, transmits a control signal to the monitoring circuit (3). The control signal results in the pressure modulator (1) only very slowly increasing the front wheel brake pressure.

Abstract: A thread brake with two disc shaped or plate shaped brake elements resiliently pressed against each other operates with an associated oscillation generating device to set the brake elements in oscillatory motions which are preferably oriented transversely to the bearing axis of the brake elements.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a brake system with anti-lock control and traction slip control having a master cylinder to which braking pressure can be applied by a brake pedal, which is furnished with pressure fluid by a pressure fluid reservoir, and which is connected to at least one brake cylinder of a driven wheel via at least one brake line; a low-pressure accumulator and a return-delivery pump for the anti-lock operation, as well as a supply pressure generating source with a limited fuel delivery for traction slip control which is arranged in the pressure fluid reservoir. The supply pressure generating source can be used for the rapid preliminary fill-up of the brake cylinder when the pump starts to operate, as well as for generating a supply pressure on the suction side of the pump.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a brake fluid pressure control apparatus in which a casing contains a pump communication port separately from a master cylinder communication port. A spool is also provided which limits the communication between the pump communication port and the master cylinder communication port in a manner such that the discharge pressure from the pump is not added directly to the master cylinder. Additionally, in the intake and discharge sides of the pump, a bypass channel is provided. In this bypass channel, a relief valve is provided which allows the escape of pressure force to the intake side of the pump in the case when the pressure force between the discharge side of the pump and the flow control valve increases to a high pressure.

Abstract: A fluid-filled elastic mount wherein an elastic body elastically connecting a first and a second support partially defines a fluid chamber filled with a non-compressible fluid. The elastic mount includes an oscillating plate which partially defines the fluid chamber and which is displaceable to change a pressure of the fluid in the fluid chamber, and a permanent magnet disposed on one of opposite sides of the oscillating plate remote from the fluid chamber. A first and a second yoke member are connected to opposite magnetic pole faces of the magnet and cooperate with the magnet to define a closed magnetic circuit. The yoke members define therebetween an annular gap in the magnetic circuit, in which an annular moving coil is received. The coil is fixed to the oscillating plate, to oscillate the oscillating plate upon energization of the coil.

Abstract: In an anti-lock braking apparatus, by detecting brake torque at a wheel and controlling the braking force of a wheel brake unit, a locked state of the wheel can be quickly detected to thus enable braking control with fast response characteristics. Also, based on direction of a variation of the brake torque on the wheel, the road friction coefficient is predicted to perform feedback control for the braking force and to adjust the brake torque to a target brake torque, whereby the braking performance can be optimized.

Abstract: An anti-lock-controlled hydraulic brake system is described having a pump (9) and a master brake cylinder (1). An arrangement for controlling the pump pressure is integrated in the master brake cylinder ( 1 ) and consists of the combination of a connection of the pump to the master cylinder and reservoir, and a primary seal (30, 34) cooperating with a compensating hole (36) in the master cylinder wall. The seal (30, 34) consists of an elastic ring (37) lying on the inside and of a slide ring (38) lying on the outside. The necessary communication between the storage reservoir ( 7 ) and the brake circuits, which enables the brake circuits to be resupplied via a non-return valve, is effected via the nonreturn valves (10, 11) of the pump (9). The double seal can be backed by a secondary seal (41) which completely seals the working chamber against leakage flow past the primary ring seal.

Abstract: A lower limiting value of the yaw speed is calculated as a function of the steering angle, the vehicle speed, and the coefficient of friction between tires and road. If the yaw speed falls below the lower limiting value, the brake pressure is reduced in order to increase lateral stability.