Patents Assigned to Nippon A B S, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 4740040
    Abstract: An anti-skid control vehicle braking apparatus with pairs of front and rear wheels; wheel speed sensors associated with the wheels; first and second fluid pressure control valve devices for respectively controlling the brake fluid pressure of the wheel cylinders of the front wheels; a control unit receiving outputs of the wheel speed sensors for measuring or judging the skid conditions of the front and rear wheels and for generating instructions for controlling the fluid pressure control valve devices; and a valve apparatus for generating a fluid pressure in accordance with the lower one of the brake fluid pressures of the front wheels controlled with the control valve devices, being arranged between the front wheel cylinders and rear wheel cylinders the control unit discriminates the frictionally lower one of the sides of the road on which the wheels are running, on the basis of the measuring or judging results of the skid conditions of rear wheels, combines logically the measuring or judging results of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1988
    Assignee: Nippon A B S, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuro Arikawa
  • Patent number: 4637664
    Abstract: In an anti-skid control apparatus for a vehicle braking system including a fluid pressure control valve device arranged between a master cylinder and a wheel cylinder of a brake for the wheel, the fluid pressure control valve device receiving control signals of a control unit measuring the skid condition of the wheel to control the brake fluid pressure to said wheel cylinder; a hydraulic reservoir which, when the brake fluid pressure to the wheel cylinder is decreased with control of the fluid pressure control valve device, reserves the brake fluid discharged through the fluid pressure control valve device from the wheel cylinder; a pressure fluid supply conduit connecting the master cylinder with said fluid pressure control valve device; and a fluid pump for returning the brake fluid from the hydraulic reservoir into the pressure fluid supply conduit; the fluid pressure control valve device is provided for a pair of front wheels, respectively, a valve apparatus receiving fluid pressure of wheel cylinders of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Assignee: Nippon A B S, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuro Arikawa