Including Hydraulic Power Booster Patents (Class 303/114.1)
  • Patent number: 11958461
    Abstract: A detection method for an electromechanical brake booster. The method includes: ascertaining, while both a driver braking force is transferred to an input element and a motor force is transferred to a support element so that a coupling element of the electromechanical brake booster which is provided downstream from the input element and the support element is also displaced at least using the motor force, whether an open intermediate gap, when the input element is present in its starting position, is closed when the coupling element is present in its starting position, and establishing an actual variable with respect to a coupling element path of the coupling element out of its coupling element starting position and/or a coupling element velocity of the coupling element in the case of an open intermediate gap using a first formula, and in the case of a closed intermediate gap using a second formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Dirk Mahnkopf
  • Patent number: 11897444
    Abstract: A brake cylinder configured to provide braking signaling to an automotive simulator, the brake cylinder includes a damper housing, a resilient damper arranged within the damper housing and a piston configured to move a block in the axial direction at least partially into the damper housing towards said resilient damper. The block comprises a mechanical stop configured to limit the axial movement of the piston in the axial direction. The brake cylinder further has a sensor configured to measure a response to movement of said piston and send a signal to a processor indicative of that movement. The brake cylinder is configured to be connected to a brake pedal. The mechanical stop divides the braking process into two phases a first phase where the pedal can be depressed and a second phase where the pedal cannot be pressed further due to the mechanical stop. In one variant the brake cylinder is a purely mechanical system with only the damper housing or in combination with a single cylinder chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Asetek Danmark A/S
    Inventors: André Sloth Eriksen, Kim Henriksen
  • Patent number: 11807200
    Abstract: A hydraulic block of an electronic braking device for a vehicle includes a first input port and a second input port configured to receive a brake fluid from a main braking system, at least one oil chamber connected to one input port of the first input port and the second input port, a first output port and a second output port configured to discharge the brake fluid to a plurality of wheel brake apparatuses, a first inlet line configured to connect the first input port and the first output port to each other, and a second inlet line configured to connect the second input port and the second output port to each other, a first outlet line bifurcated from the first inlet line, a second outlet line bifurcated from the second inlet line, and a valve mounting unit mounted with a plurality of valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Ki Ahn
  • Patent number: 11761462
    Abstract: A solenoid valve assembly has a valve body in which a spool is slidably mounted and operated by a solenoid having a coil. A manifold member has a plurality of flow paths for supplying and discharging pressurized fluid to and from ports of the solenoid valve assembly. An intermediate block is interposed between the valve body and the manifold member. The intermediate block has a plurality of through holes for connecting ports of the manifold member to ports on the valve body. At least one sensor is housed in the intermediate block for sensing at least one of pressure and flow in at least one of the through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Inventors: Scott Allen Weickel, Enrico De Carolis, Thiago Caetano Ferreira, Pascal Moreau
  • Patent number: 11760325
    Abstract: Provided is a dump truck capable of performing an actuation test of an emergency brake system at an appropriate timing. The dump truck comprises: front wheel and rear wheel emergency brake systems, each system including an accumulator that accumulates hydraulic oil supplied from a hydraulic pump, a brake device that is actuated by the hydraulic oil supplied from the accumulator, and a solenoid valve that opens and closes a flow path of the hydraulic oil extending from the accumulator to the brake device; and a controller configured to execute front test processing and rear test processing alternately (step S16/step S18) in the case of determining that the dump truck is stopped (step S11: Yes), a vessel is in a fallen position (step S12: YES), and a loading operation onto the vessel is completed (step S15: Yes/step S17: Yes).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Fukushi, Shinjiro Saito, Daiki Tetsuka
  • Patent number: 11680587
    Abstract: A brake cylinder includes a brake cylinder housing having a master chamber, a slave chamber, and a wall disposed there between. The wall defines at least one opening configured to provide fluid communication between the master chamber and the slave chamber. The brake cylinder also includes a master piston configured to pressurize fluid in the master chamber when a brake pedal is pressed. The brake cylinder further includes a slave piston and a pressure sensor disposed in fluid communication with the slave chamber. The pressure sensor is configured to measure pressure in the slave chamber and send a signal to a processor indicating of movement of the brake pedal. When pressurizing fluid in the master chamber, the master piston is configured to drive fluid from the master chamber to the slave chamber via the at least one opening to increase pressure in the slave chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: ASETEK DANMARK A/S
    Inventors: André Sloth Eriksen, Kim Henriksen
  • Patent number: 11628815
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: a piston provided in a cylinder hole; a lid member which closes an opening on the other side of the cylinder hole; and elastic members and which are provided between the piston and the lid member. The elastic members and comprise a first elastic member provided on the piston side of the cylinder hole, and a second elastic member provided on the lid member side of the cylinder hole. The second elastic member has a base portion provided in line with the first elastic member, and a protruding portion protruding from the piston side end surface of the base portion. When the piston has moved in the axial direction to the lid member side, the protruding portion touches the piston, undergoing compressive deformation, and the base portion subsequently undergoes compressive deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hongding Li
  • Patent number: 11590950
    Abstract: Provided are an electronic brake system and a method of operating the same, capable of performing a normal operation mode and an abnormal operation mode by including an integrated master cylinder configured to discharge a pressurizing medium according to a displacement of a brake pedal while providing a driver with a pedal fee, a liquid pressure supply device configured to generate a liquid pressure by operating a hydraulic piston according to an electrical being output on the basis of the displacement of the brake pedal, and a hydraulic control unit configured to a liquid pressure of a pressurizing medium to be supplied to each wheel cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyojin Jeong, Seong Ho Choi, Jin Seok Kim, Byung Ki Kim
  • Patent number: 11590945
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic vehicle braking system is provided, comprising an electrically controllable first hydraulic pressure generator and an electrically controllable second hydraulic pressure generator. The braking system further comprises a first valve device for each wheel brake, having at least one first valve, wherein in an electrically uncontrolled state the first valve device separates its associated wheel brake from an output of the first hydraulic pressure generator, and in an electrically controlled state connects it to the output of the first hydraulic pressure generator. In addition, a second valve device for each wheel brake is provided, having a second valve between an output of the second hydraulic pressure generator and its associated wheel brake, as well as a third valve between this wheel brake and a first hydraulic fluid reservoir. The first valve device and the second valve device are arranged in parallel to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: ZF Active Safety GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Einig, Blaise Ganzel, Nicholas Alford
  • Patent number: 11572048
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a control device and a corresponding method for operating an electromechanical brake booster of a brake system of a vehicle, comprising an electronics unit that defines a target variable with respect to a target rotational speed of a motor of the electromechanical brake booster, taking into account a brake input signal with respect to a braking request, and that sends at least one control signal to the motor. The electronics unit defines a maximum target variable with respect to a maximum target rotational speed of the motor, taking into account a current intensity of a motor current of the motor and a current angle of rotation of a rotor of the motor, and defines the target variable with respect to the target rotational speed of the motor of the electromechanical brake booster to be at the most equal to the defined maximum target variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Vollert, Dirk Mahnkopf, Christian Binder, Manfred Gerdes, Oliver Fuchs
  • Patent number: 11548488
    Abstract: A control device for a first motorized pressure build-up device of a braking system of a vehicle. The control device is designed to output at least one first piece of information to an activation device of a second motorized pressure build-up device of the braking system by, under consideration of the respective first piece of information, a first motor activatable in such a way that a pressure prevailing in at least one partial volume of the braking system is varied in accordance with a pressure change signal, which is interpretable as the respective first piece of information for the activation device using a second pressure sensor unit of the second motorized pressure build-up device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Klimpel, Martin Wolff
  • Patent number: 11541859
    Abstract: An electronic brake system and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The electronic brake system includes an integrated master cylinder, a hydraulic-pressure supply device, and a hydraulic control unit. The integrated master cylinder allows a brake fluid to be discharged based on displacement of a brake pedal and at the same time provides proper pedal feel for the user. The hydraulic-pressure supply device generates hydraulic pressure by operating a hydraulic piston in response to an electrical signal that is output in response to displacement of the brake pedal. The hydraulic control unit controls hydraulic pressure of brake fluid supplied to respective wheel cylinders. The electronic brake system operates in different ways according to a normal operation mode and an abnormal operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: HL MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyojin Jeong, Seong Ho Choi, Jin Seok Kim, Byung Ki Kim
  • Patent number: 11511717
    Abstract: An electronic brake system and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The electronic brake system includes an integrated master cylinder, a hydraulic-pressure supply device, and a hydraulic control unit. The integrated master cylinder allows a pressing medium to be discharged based on displacement of a brake pedal and at the same time provides proper pedal feel for the user. The hydraulic control unit controls hydraulic pressure of a pressing medium supplied to respective wheel cylinders. The electronic brake system operates in different ways according to a normal operation mode and an abnormal operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hyojin Jeong, Seong Ho Choi, Jin Seok Kim, Byung Ki Kim
  • Patent number: 11498538
    Abstract: This braking control device feeds by pressure a braking fluid from a master cylinder to a wheel cylinder, to generate a braking force in a wheel. The braking control device is provided with an input rod; an output rod; first and second electric motors; and first and second racks forming a differential mechanism. When the outputs of the first and second electric motors are controlled, the operation power of the input rod and the displacement of the output rod are controlled independently of each other. Here, in the second rack, the movement, in a backward direction, in response to decrease of a master cylinder fluid pressure is limited within a range of a predetermined displacement by means of two stoppers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Marshall Bull, Shun Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 11491957
    Abstract: An electronic hydraulic brake device may include: a brake unit including a main brake unit configured to provide braking hydraulic pressure to a plurality of wheel cylinders through an operation of a motor, and an auxiliary brake unit connected to the main brake unit so as to be filled with high braking hydraulic pressure, and configured to provide braking hydraulic pressure to the plurality of wheel cylinders when an operation error of the main brake unit occurs; a first control unit configured to control the operation of the brake unit, and configured to control the auxiliary brake unit to operate when an operation error of the main brake unit occurs; and a second control unit configured to assist a part of the control of the main brake unit controlled by the first control unit and the control of the auxiliary brake unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Se Young Cheon, Jae Il Lim, Bong Geun Cho, Jae Woong Hur
  • Patent number: 11242043
    Abstract: An electro-hydraulic brake system includes a master cylinder block in communication with a reservoir tank containing a brake fluid. A protrusion extends from the master cylinder block to a terminal end. The master cylinder block defines a channel extending along a center axis into the protrusion. A pressure supply unit includes a housing defining a chamber and is in communication with the reservoir tank. A displacement piston, slidably disposed in the channel, extends between a primary end located in the chamber and a secondary end located in the channel. An actuator is disposed in the chamber, rotatably coupled to the displacement piston, for axial movement along the center axis. A first anti-rotational member is disposed in the channel, coupled to the terminal end, for engaging the secondary end to prevent rotation and translate rotational movement of the actuator into the axial movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: BWI (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: David Fredrick Reuter
  • Patent number: 11198421
    Abstract: A method for adjusting brake pressures of a motor vehicle includes actuating, by a control unit, while taking into account determined dynamic state variables of wheels that are to be braked, a pressure control valve with an inlet valve for ventilating and with an outlet valve for venting the brake pressure line that is controlled by the pressure control valve. The control times of the outlet valve are determined depending on control of the inlet valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: ZF CV SYSTEMS EUROPE BV
    Inventor: Horst Eckert
  • Patent number: 11180123
    Abstract: This vehicle control system is provided with an input monitoring unit and a determination time changing unit. When a state in which first target data is not input to a second control unit continues for a first determination time or longer, the input monitoring unit determines the first target data to be in a non-input state. When a state in which second target data is not input to the second control unit continues for a second determination time or longer, the input monitoring unit determines the second target data to be in a non-input state. When the first target data is determined to be in a non-input state, the determination time changing unit shortens the second determination time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Ishida, Takayuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10821949
    Abstract: A braking system for a vehicle, which includes both a primary brake system, and a secondary brake system. A plurality of braking units are controlled by the primary brake system when the primary brake system is active, and at least one of the plurality of braking units controlled by the secondary brake system when the primary brake system is inactive. An actuator is part of the primary brake system, and the actuator is controlled by a primary controller. The primary controller selectively actuates the actuator to control the fluid pressure in the primary brake system to selectively actuate the plurality of braking units when the primary brake system is active, and when the primary brake system is inactive, the secondary brake system generates a boost pressure in the at least one of the plurality of braking units controlled by the secondary brake system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Pedro Henriques, Richard Davis, Krutarth Swadia
  • Patent number: 10814849
    Abstract: An electronically pressure-controllable vehicle braking system and a method for controlling an electronically pressure-controllable vehicle braking system are described. Such vehicle braking systems may stabilize a vehicle, assist the actuation of the vehicle braking system, and/or enable a fully automated or semi-automated driving operation. For this purpose, the vehicle braking systems include a primary actuator system which sets or regulates different braking pressures at the wheel brakes and furthermore includes an electronically controllable secondary actuator system which protects the vehicle braking system against, inter alia, failure of the primary actuator system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Strehle, Marko Flinner, Matthias Schanzenbach, Thomas Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10752227
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic brake system including: a reservoir to store oil; a master cylinder connected to the reservoir and including first and second master chambers and first and second piston provided in the first and second master chambers, respectively, to discharge the oil according to an pedal effort of a brake pedal; a hydraulic pressure generating apparatus provided on at least one of a first reservoir passage connecting the reservoir and the first master chamber and a second reservoir passage connecting the reservoir and the second master chamber; a hydraulic pressure supply apparatus operated by an electrical signal to generate a hydraulic pressure and connected to the master cylinder; and a hydraulic pressure control unit transmitting alternatively the hydraulic pressure discharged from the hydraulic pressure generating apparatus or the hydraulic pressure supply apparatus to a wheel cylinder provided on each of four wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hee Chul Jung, Seong Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 10744987
    Abstract: A master cylinder and an electronic brake system including the same are disclosed. The electronic brake system includes a main hydraulic-pressure supply device to generate hydraulic pressure by sensing displacement of a brake pedal and a sub hydraulic-pressure supply unit to supply hydraulic pressure to at least one wheel cylinder during an abnormal operation of the main hydraulic-pressure supply device. The master cylinder includes a first piston disposed in a bore of a cylinder body so as to be directly pressurized by the brake pedal, a first hydraulic chamber pressurized by the first piston to discharge hydraulic pressure, a second piston indirectly pressurized by the first piston, and a second hydraulic chamber pressurized by the second piston to discharge hydraulic pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hyun Dong Kim
  • Patent number: 10625725
    Abstract: A braking system for vehicles having a master cylinder, and at least one braking device. The master cylinder may be provided with a first and a second output circuit, containing respectively a first and second brake fluid. The first output circuit may be fluidically connected to a braking simulator and the second output circuit may be fluidically connected to the at least one braking device for its actuation. An automatic hydraulic actuation unit operatively connected to the master cylinder by a hydraulic actuation circuit traversed by an actuation fluid distinct from the first and second brake fluid may be provided. A processing and control unit of the system that supervises the operation of the braking systems may also be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Freni Brembo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Roberto Arienti, Carlo Cantoni, Andrea Odoni
  • Patent number: 10449938
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic vehicle brake system includes an electromechanical actuator for actuating at least one hydraulic piston to build hydraulic pressure at wheel brakes. The brake system provides a set of electrically activatable valve arrangements having a first valve arrangement between a cylinder accommodating the at least one hydraulic piston and each of the wheel brakes, and at least one second valve arrangement between a receptacle device for hydraulic fluid and at least one of the wheel brakes. The second valve arrangement is provided in parallel with the first valve arrangement which is associated with the same wheel brake as the second valve arrangement. A control device or system activates the first valve arrangements and the electromechanical actuator, in order to build up a hydraulic pressure at at least one of the wheel brakes and via the opened first valve arrangement associated with that wheel brake and to reduce a built-up hydraulic pressure via the opened first valve arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Lucas Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Knechtges, Josef Knechtges, Andreas Passmann
  • Patent number: 10250098
    Abstract: The invention relates to a drive device, particularly comprising an internal rotor motor, with a motor housing, a stator for a winding and a rotor having at least one permanent magnet, wherein the motor housing has a housing part extending substantially radially on one side of the stator and the rotor has two rotor bearings. The rotor bearings are arranged on the substantially radially extending housing part or on a part connected thereto which extends substantially axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: IPGATE AG
    Inventors: Heinz Leiber, Valentin Unterfrauner, Thomas Leiber
  • Patent number: 10202107
    Abstract: A brake system including a main body having a first main chamber and a second main chamber divided by a main piston, a motor configured to move the main piston forward and move the main piston rearward, a first traction control valve installed in a first flow path, a second traction control valve installed in a second flow path, and a controller configured to control the motor, the first traction control valve, and the second traction control valve. When an anti-lock brake system (ABS) starting pressure is lower than an ABS critical value, the controller performs a low-pressure forward movement connection control that closes the first traction control valve and the second traction control valve, and moves the main piston forward to increase a first hydraulic pressure in the second main chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yong cheol Seol
  • Patent number: 10202108
    Abstract: A brake apparatus improved in mountability on a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a master cylinder 4 that generates hydraulic brake pressure by a driver's brake operation, and a stroke simulator 5 that creates an artificial operation reaction force of a brake operation member when the brake fluid flown out of the master cylinder 4 enters the stroke simulator 5. The master cylinder 4 and the stroke simulator 5 are integrally arranged to overlap each other in a perpendicular direction (as viewed from the perpendicular direction) when installed in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Misunou, Ryohei Maruo, Chiharu Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 10099670
    Abstract: A vehicle braking system includes a brake pedal, a master cylinder, and an electronically-controlled booster having an input member and an output member adapted to provide an input force to the master cylinder that combines a driver-supplied input force and a boost force provided by the electronically-controlled booster. A wheel cylinder is fluidly coupled to an outlet of the master cylinder and operable to provide a wheel braking force proportional to the input force to the master cylinder. A pump is operable to pump fluid toward the wheel cylinder to provide an assisting wheel braking force. A controller is programmed to trigger a hydraulic braking assist routine in which the pump is activated to provide the assisting wheel braking force. The controller is programmed to reduce the boost force provided by the electronically-controlled booster during the hydraulic braking assist routine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Emmanuel Kouemo Ngomssu, Bernhard Maier, Marko Flinner
  • Patent number: 10023166
    Abstract: A brake control device capable of preventing a braking force from being excessive when information cannot be transmitted between a first control unit configured to control operation of a boost mechanism and a second control unit configured to control operation of a hydraulic control mechanism. When a second ECU (32) cannot transmit information to a first ECU (26) due to a disconnection of a signal line (27), the second ECU carries out backup control of detecting a braking operation amount of a driver based on signal input from hydraulic pressure sensors (29), and operating a hydraulic pressure supply device (30) based on the detected braking operation amount, to thereby pressurize insides of wheel cylinders. In this case, the second ECU decreases a pressurization amount of a pressure inside the wheel cylinders when a pressure of a master cylinder (8) exceeds a predetermined value (PM0) during the backup control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Takeda, Tohma Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 10000193
    Abstract: An integrated dynamic brake apparatus includes a hydraulic pressure generating unit configured to convert rotational power of a motor into linear reciprocating movement, a brake actuation unit including a master cylinder in which a pump piston included in the hydraulic pressure generating unit is accommodated, a valve block disposed over the motor and configured to control discharging of a fluid accommodated in the master cylinder, and an electronic control unit disposed at one side of the motor and configured to control the motor and the valve block, wherein the pump piston linearly reciprocates along a first axis perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sang-Soo Han
  • Patent number: 9975534
    Abstract: An electrohydraulic brake system includes an electromechanical actuator for actuating at least one hydraulic piston to provide a hydraulic pressure at one or more of a plurality of wheel brakes. The brake system further includes electrically activatable valve arrangements having a first valve arrangement between a cylinder accommodating the at least one hydraulic piston and each of the plurality of wheel brakes, and at least one second valve arrangement. The second valve arrangement is provided between a receptacle device for hydraulic fluid and at least one of the wheel brakes. The second valve arrangement is provided in parallel with the first valve arrangement associated with the same wheel brake as the second valve arrangement. The brake system also includes a control device or system that opens one of the first valve arrangements and the second valve arrangement connected in parallel therewith, in order to release a hydraulic pressure built up in the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Lucas Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Knechtges, Josef Knechtges, Andreas Passmann
  • Patent number: 9889832
    Abstract: A master cylinder apparatus includes: an input piston that can be moved forward by operating a brake operating member; a pressure piston provided in front of the input piston to be capable of moving relative to the input piston; and a stroke velocity ratio modification device capable of modifying a stroke velocity ratio, which is a ratio between a stroke velocity of the pressure piston and a stroke velocity of the input piston, in at least two stages within a range not greater than a predetermined value larger than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Isono
  • Patent number: 9884613
    Abstract: [Summary] To provide a brake system in which due to change in structure of a seat member, an end portion of a push rod that faces a piston can be increased in diameter and thus weight reduction of entire construction of the piston and suppression of vibration hitting noises are obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Katsuma Tsuruoka, Yukinori Otsuka
  • Patent number: 9863447
    Abstract: An input piston connected to a brake pedal and an output piston which is moved forward to increase a hydraulic pressure in a pressure chamber are fitted to each other telescopically, and an engaging spring is provided between the input piston and the pressure chamber. The output piston is moved forward relative to the input piston by a hydraulic pressure in a rear chamber while compressing the engaging spring. Since a set load of the engaging spring is set at a small value, the output piston is moved forward relative to the input piston in an initial period of a braking operation, making it possible to reduce a stroke of the input piston which is required for a hydraulic pressure in brake cylinders to reach a first set pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Isono
  • Patent number: 9776605
    Abstract: A brake control device includes a pilot-type pressure-increasing device. A pilot unit of the pressure-increasing device is connected to a power hydraulic pressure generating device via a pilot input passage. A linear control valve that is also used for adjusting a hydraulic pressure of a wheel cylinder is provided on the pilot input passage. A brake ECU checks whether the pressure-increasing device is normally activated or not based on a hydraulic pressure outputted from the pressure-increasing device when the linear control valve is energized for an activation check. Thus, the brake ECU can perform the activation check of the pressure-increasing device without requiring a driver's operation on a brake pedal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miyazaki, Kazunori Nimura
  • Patent number: 9776604
    Abstract: An integrated brake device for a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a master cylinder that generates a hydraulic pressure based on the operation of a pedal, a pedal simulator that provides a pedal stepping force to the pedal based on the hydraulic pressure, a motor that is driven based on displacement of the pedal, a pump that applies a braking pressure to wheels of the vehicle based on the driving of the motor, and a gear unit that converts rotational power of the motor into a linear motion of a piston included in the pump, wherein a rotating shaft of the motor is parallel to a direction of the linear motion of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: MANDO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chanhui Lee, Dong Yo Ryu
  • Patent number: 9731694
    Abstract: An electromechanical brake booster for a brake system of a vehicle includes: a booster housing; and a valve element, which is situated in a continuous receiving opening of the booster housing in a manner that allows an adjustment in relation to the booster housing, and which has a continuous central opening within which a valve piston is positioned or able to be positioned in a manner that allows an adjustment in relation to the valve element such that a driver-applied brake force is transmittable via an input rod to an output rod. In addition, a ball segment is situated or developed on the valve element, which contacts a conical seat of a disk of the electromechanical brake booster situated between the ball segment and the booster housing so as to allow an adjustment in relation to the booster housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Schwarz, Harald Guggenmos, Christoph Voelkel
  • Patent number: 9701296
    Abstract: A booster includes a valve body and a boosting assembly with a ball screw. The ball screw includes a screw rod, a nut, and a plurality of balls cooperating with and between the screw rod and the nut. The nut is linked with the valve body and moves along a straight line on its cooperated screw rod so as to drive the valve body to move along a straight line. A brake system includes the booster and a hydraulic system that includes a braking main cylinder with a piston. The valve body is connected to the piston. The booster is configured to provide high transmission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Qiusheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 9604616
    Abstract: A brake booster and related method for its operation for a vehicle, having a master brake cylinder having a first primary piston chamber that is variable using an adjustable first primary piston component, a braking force transmission component, using which at least one driver braking force is transmittable by the adjustable first primary piston component contacted by the braking force transmission component, and an adjustable second primary piston component, the master brake cylinder having a second primary piston chamber that is variable using the adjustable second primary piston component, and the brake booster has a booster force transmission component, using which a booster force from the actuator device is transmittable at least partially to the adjustable second primary piston component contacted by the booster force transmission component, and the braking force transmission component in its force-free initial position is distanced by a first free play from the first primary piston component and/or the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Weiberle, Matthias Kistner
  • Patent number: 9573572
    Abstract: A brake booster coupling device includes: a braking piston, an input piston displaceable by an operation of a brake input element from its starting position by a driver braking distance, a force transmission between the input piston displaced by a driver braking distance below a predefined threshold value and the braking piston is suppressed, and a booster piston displaceable with the aid of the brake booster drive such that the braking piston, which contacts the booster piston, is displaceable with the aid of the brake booster drive from a non-braking position into a braking position; a contact element displaceable by a displacement of the braking piston from the non-braking position into the braking position such that a first contact surface of the contact element contacts a second contact surface of the input piston in such a way that a driver brake force is transmittable to the braking piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Overzier, Jochen Mayer, Willi Nagel, Bernd Goetzelmann
  • Patent number: 9561781
    Abstract: A method and a system for displaying efficiency of regenerative braking for an environmentally-friendly vehicle to better educate drivers in regards to their braking habits and hopefully teach them how to improve the fuel efficiency of the vehicle through adjustment of their braking habits while improving the quality of a vehicle by displaying the regenerative braking efficiency in comparison to a total amount of braking during the braking of the environmentally-friendly vehicle on a cluster. In particular, a total amount of braking while the vehicle is braking, and a ratio of the amount of regenerative braking included in the total amount of braking is calculated by a controller. Then the controller determines whether the vehicle is stopped due to braking. Once the vehicle has stopped due to braking, the calculated ratio of the amount of regenerative braking is displayed on a cluster in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Chun Hyuk Lee
  • Patent number: 9527485
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a brake system input apparatus into which a brake operation performed by an operating person is inputted, including: a base body; a master cylinder that is provided in the base body and that generates a brake hydraulic pressure by a piston, the piston being connected to a brake operator; a stroke sensor unit that is attached to the base body on a side of the master cylinder and that has a detection element, the detection element being configured to detect a sliding stroke of the piston; and a control circuit board that is provided on a side of the base body, wherein the stroke sensor unit has a connection terminal portion that is connected to a connection terminal of the control circuit board, and wherein the connection terminal portion is disposed so as to face the control circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: AUTOLIV NISSIN BRAKE SYSTEMS JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motoyasu Nakamura, Toshiya Shimozaki, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Kouji Sakai
  • Patent number: 9511757
    Abstract: In a method for determining a failure in a service or parking brake having an electromotive and a hydraulic brake device for generating a clamping force, an error is detected in the hydraulic brake device if an electromotive characteristic of the electric brake motor is outside an admissible value range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Baehrle-Miller, Dieter Blattert, Tobias Putzer
  • Patent number: 9505386
    Abstract: A traction-slip controlled vehicle brake system having a) a service-brake valve, which generates an actuation-dependent pressure at an outlet port; b) a valve device, in a first operating position, establishes a connection from a pressure medium reserve and, in a second operating position, from a 2/2 solenoid valve to a brake actuator; c) the solenoid valve being connected to the outlet port of the service-brake valve and to a first connection of the valve device. The solenoid valve and valve device are controllable by a control device to d) allow the solenoid valve to switch open and the valve device to switch to the first operating position for traction-slip control; e) and a brake pressure generated at a predetermined level based on the pressure medium from the pressure medium supply in the brake actuator; the solenoid valve being switched closed and the valve device to the first operating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Wieder, Péter Holobrádi
  • Patent number: 9487202
    Abstract: A fluid-pressure brake device for a vehicle includes a brake operation member, a master cylinder, wheel cylinders a fluid-pressure control actuator, a fluid-pressure control circuit, and an electric control unit. Moreover, in the fluid-pressure brake device for a vehicle, normally closed electromagnetic open/close valves are interposed on paths for connecting master system fluid-pressure circuits and a drive fluid chamber of the master cylinder with each other, the master system fluid-pressure circuits being configured to connect pressure chambers of the master cylinder and pressure chambers of the wheel cylinders—with each other. The fluid-pressure brake device for a vehicle is configured so that the electromagnetic open/close valves are opened when an action amount of the brake operation member is equal to or more than a set value. As a result, a size and a stroke of each of master pistons in the master cylinder can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Ishida
  • Patent number: 9452741
    Abstract: A vehicle brake system includes a slave cylinder configured to drive an electric motor and generate a brake fluid pressure by moving pistons with a ball screw shaft; normally open type master cut valves that communicate/shut off between the slave cylinder and a master cylinder; and a control unit that controls the electric motor to close the master cut valves and limit a displacement of the ball screw shaft on the basis of a reference position during operation of a VSA device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuharu Kidera, Takashi Shimada, Soichiro Ueura
  • Patent number: 9446753
    Abstract: A brake actuating unit (1, 1?) for a brake-by-wire motor vehicle brake system having a housing (10), a first hydraulic cylinder/piston arrangement (3) to which a plurality of wheel brakes connectable. The piston being operable by a push rod (2) transmitting an actuating force, an electrically controllable pressure supplying device (6) in the form of a second hydraulic cylinder/piston arrangement (12), actuated by an electric motor (7). A number of valves (41, 42, 43) for setting wheel-individual brake pressures and for disconnecting or connecting the wheel brakes with the first or the second cylinder/piston arrangement (3, 12). The valves and the second cylinder/piston arrangement are arranged at least partially inside the housing (10), the axis of the electric motor (7) being arranged substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (30) of the first cylinder/piston arrangement (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Hans-Jörg Feigel, Kristjan Tarandek
  • Patent number: 9428169
    Abstract: An electric brake booster for a vehicle brake system includes a push bar configured to be driven by a brake pedal to move forwards in an axial direction; a brake force outputting element configured to be pushed forwards by the push bar to output a brake force from the brake pedal; a booster force outputting element for outputting a booster force; a motor for driving the booster force outputting element to create the booster force; a poppet configured to be pushed forwards in the axial direction by the push bar with a spring force, wherein the poppet forms a boost switch, through which an electrical current can pass, with the brake force outputting element and forms a release switch, through which another electrical current can pass, with the booster force outputting element; and an electronic control unit for controlling the operation of the motor in responsive to the on-off states of the boost switch and the release switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignees: Bosch Automotive Products (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Qiusheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 9428167
    Abstract: A vehicle brake device includes a failure detection means for driving the master piston only by the operation force of the brake operation member along with the operation of the brake operation member, thereby to detect a failure of a master system, when a master cylinder pressure correlation value correlated to the master cylinder pressure is less than a predetermined value, in a case where an operation amount of the brake operation member is a predetermined amount or in a case where the operation force of the brake operation member is a predetermined force; and a driving control means for driving the master piston by force corresponding to the servo pressure in the servo chamber generated by the servo pressure generation portion, when the operation amount of the brake operation member is greater than a predetermined amount, or when the operation force of the brake operation member is greater than a predetermined force, in the operation of the brake operation member in which the failure detection means detec
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasunori Sakata
  • Patent number: 9403516
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the activation of a brake of a hydraulic vehicle brake system of a hybrid vehicle which can be braked by the generator mode of an electric drive motor. The invention proposes equipping the vehicle brake system with an electromechanical brake booster and generating a pedal force at a brake pedal with the brake booster when braking by the generator mode of the electric drive motor occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Strengert, Reinhard Weiberle, Timo Jahnz