Abstract: The invention relates to a hybrid brake system having a hydraulic service brake system and an electromechanical service brake system. According to the invention, a brake booster is designed as a pedal simulator, which can be used to boost power and to generate a pedal power which is counter to the direction of actuation. When the hydraulic service brake system fails, the electromechanical service brake system is used for braking and the brake booster generates a pedal power which allows or facilitates dosage of the brake actuation.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electromechanical brake force booster for a hydraulic vehicle brake system. The invention proposes that the brake force booster be formed with two restoring springs, one of which acts on an electromechanical actuator and the other of which restoring springs acts on a pedal rod. In the event of failure of the electromechanical actuator, only the other spring, which preferably has a relatively low spring force, must be compressed using muscle force. The force loss in the event of actuation exclusively by muscle force is reduced.

Abstract: A method for controlling the activation of a hydraulic vehicle brake system of a hybrid vehicle, which can be braked by generator operation of an electric drive motor, includes compensating for the braking effect of the electric drive motor and reducing a wheel brake pressure in the wheel brakes of the vehicle wheels by opening brake pressure-reducing valves, which are braked with the electric drive motor.

Abstract: A method for controlling a hydraulic vehicle brake system having an electromechanical brake booster, includes activating the brake booster and a master brake cylinder of the vehicle brake system in response to a desire to brake, and reducing a clearance in the wheel brakes.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electromechanical disk brake which has a switchable freewheel in order to be configured as a parking brake. The switchable freewheel includes a clamping roller freewheel having rollers for locking a motor shaft of an electric motor of the brake. A locating bearing of the motor shaft of an electric motor, and the freewheel are accommodated on a cover of a housing of the electric motor, and all the electric connections of the disc brake are routed via the cover. The number of components used can be reduced considerably by the integrated design. Moreover, the positional tolerances of the freewheel in relation to the motor shaft can be reduced with the aid of the invention.

Abstract: A self-boosting electromechanical friction brake for a motor vehicle in which, with an electromechanical actuator, a friction brake lining can be pressed against a brake disk, and the friction brake lining is braced in the brake caliper via a wedge mechanism, which effects a self boosting. A friction brake lining which is pressed by the actuator has with a lower coefficient of friction, and in particular with less relative fluctuation in the coefficient of friction, than another friction brake lining positioned fixedly in the brake caliper. An operation-dictated fluctuation in the coefficient of friction and thus a change in the self boosting is reduced, and as a result the disk brake, with a low coefficient of friction, can be actuated with less actuation force and less actuation energy.

Abstract: The invention relates to a brake caliper of an electromechanical disk brake. According to the invention, in order to measure a widening of a brake caliper when the brake is activated, a rod-shaped holder which is clamped on one side, is arranged in a cavity in a yoke of the brake caliper, perpendicular to a brake disk and a movement of the free end of the holder is measured, for example by means of a magnetic sensor. The widening of the brake caliper is a measurement for the clamping force when the brake disk is actuated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connecting element connecting a brake pedal to a brake force amplifier of a vehicle brake system. The invention proposes to dispose a helical compression spring as a first spring element and a rubbery-elastic reaction disk as a second spring element between a pedal rod and a piston rod of the connecting element, the spring elements being installed in series due to the arrangement thereof Due to the higher spring rate of the reaction disk preferably increasing with load, the connecting element has a progressive spring characteristic line. According to the invention, as soon as the pedal rod contacts the reaction disk the helical compression spring and the reaction disk act in parallel and serially such that the progression of the total spring characteristic line further increases.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electromechanical brake booster with an electric motor and a helical gearing. The brake booster is used for coupling an auxiliary force via a driver into a piston rod. The invention proposes connecting a spindle of the helical gearing elastically via a spring element to the piston rod such that, in the event of rapid actuation of the brake, the helical gearing and a rotor of the electric motor do not have to be accelerated entirely muscle power. The muscle power required for actuating a brake is reduced as a result in the event of a rapid actuation of the brake.

Abstract: The invention relates to a self-reinforcing, in particular electromechanical disk brake having a wedge mechanism as the self-boosting device, for example. The invention proposes that the actuating device be attached to a separate holder, which does not have forces or torques of the wedge mechanism applied thereto.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electromechanical friction brake, for example in the form of a disc brake having an electromechanical actuation device. The electric motor of the actuation device presses a frictional brake lining against a brake disc by means of a reduction gearbox and a ball ramp mechanism. The actuation device is supported by a spring washer that is pretensioned so strongly that when the disc brake is released it acts on a segment with a falling spring characteristic; that is, a spring force exerted by the spring washer on the frictional brake lining increases with increasing tension of the disc brake.

Abstract: The invention relates to a self-amplifying electromechanical disc brake, having a friction brake lining, which is able to move on a helical path and having a rack-and-pinion mechanism for moving the friction brake lining and for actuating the disc brake. According to the invention, a rack of the rack-and-pinion mechanism is connected to the friction brake lining in articulating fashion and in the region of a pinion, an abutting support keeps the rack engaged with the pinion, with play, thus permitting the rack to pivot in order to compensate for the helical movement of the friction brake lining.

Abstract: A self-boosting electromechanical friction brake, having a friction brake lining which is displaceable for actuation in the direction of rotation of a brake disk and which is braced via roller bodies on ramps of an abutment plate. When the brake is actuated, brake disk exerts a frictional force on the brake lining pressed against it, which urges the lining in the direction of an increasingly narrow gap between the ramps and the brake disk to exert a contact pressure that is in addition to that exerted by an actuation device to attain self-boosting. The roller bodies are supported fixedly and rotatably in bearing block on the brake lining whereby the roller bodies move in slaved fashion with the brake lining and always brace the brake lining at the same points.

Abstract: A self-boosting electromagnetic disk brake having an electromechanical actuating device and a mechanical self-boosting device that has a wedge mechanism. A wedge is displaceable parallel to a brake disk and relative to a friction brake lining, and the relative displaceability of the wedge is limited relative to the friction brake lining to one direction, by means of a slaving device. The wedge is decoupled from the friction brake lining in one direction of rotation of the brake disk. As a result, the self-boosting device is operative in only one direction of rotation of the brake disk; in the reverse direction of rotation of the brake disk, the disk brake is neutral in terms of self-help.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electromechanically switchable form-locking freewheel mechanism for preventing an electromechanical brake from releasing. According to the invention, the freewheel mechanism is embodied in the form of an electric motor in which a pivot angle of the armature is limited, the armature is counterbalanced and has a locking element that cooperates with a gear. The invention permits a compactly designed freewheel mechanism that can be integrated into an electromechanical actuating unit of the electromechanical brake. The counterbalancing of the armature equipped with the locking element prevents external accelerations of the freewheel mechanism of the kind that can occur during driving operation of a motor vehicle from exerting a moment on the armature that could switch off the freewheel mechanism. A method for adjusting the clearance of an electromechanical brake is also provided.

Abstract: An electromechanically actuatable disk brake with a self-boosting device includes a wear readjusting device which can for instance be adjusted by means of an electric motor as an actuator, to compensate for wear of the friction brake lining.

Abstract: A method and device for monitoring a distributed system made up of a plurality of users that are connected by one bus system are provided, in which distributed system at least a number of the users are provided as monitoring users. The process data of at least one monitored user are filed in data areas of memory units of the bus system, to which the monitoring users have access, and the process data are evaluated by the monitoring users.

Abstract: The invention relates to a self-boosting electromechanical disk brake with a frame caliper equipped with a wear readjustment device which for instance is automatic and which upon tensing of the disk brake stores energy by prestressing a torsion shaft, which upon release of the disk brake converts this energy into a wear readjustment motion. In the process, a spacing between two brake lining holders of the frame caliper in the disk brake is decreased.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-amplifying electromechanical partial lining disc brake, having a ramp mechanism as a self-amplification device. According to the invention, a rack for driving a friction brake pad is situated between roller elements of the ramp mechanism, particularly at a geometrical centroid of an imaginary surface defined by the roller elements. As a result a load is distributed to the roller elements in a more uniform fashion and the pressing force of the friction brake pad against a brake disc when the partial lining disc brake is actuated is distributed more uniformly and counteracts irregular pad wear.

Abstract: The invention relates to a self-energizing electromechanical friction brake includes a self-energizing device provided with, for example, a wedge mechanism. According to the invention, the friction brake is equipped with a linear drive, for example an electromagnet, for brake actuation. The self-energizing device converts a friction force exerted by a rotating brake body on a friction brake lining during braking actuated by the linear drive of an actuation device into a second contact pressure that presses the friction brake lining against the brake body in addition to the first contact pressure exerted by the actuation device. The self-energizing device provides a non-proportional characteristic magnetic force curve of the electromagnet of the linear drive.