Abstract: A vehicle brake device is provided with a master cylinder, a master piston slidably arranged in the master cylinder, an input piston slidably arranged in the master cylinder to be separated from the master piston and defining a separation chamber, an input piston moving amount detecting section for detecting the moving amount of the input piston, a master piston moving amount calculating section for calculating the moving amount of the master piston based on the moving amount of the input piston, and a contact inferring section for inferring the contact of the input piston with the master piston based on the moving amount of the input piston and the moving amount of the master piston.

Abstract: A braking control apparatus for a vehicle, the vehicle including a drive regeneration imparting device (10) and a hydraulic braking system (20), the drive regeneration imparting device being configured to impart a driving force or a regenerative braking force to the vehicle, the hydraulic braking system being configured to impart a hydraulic braking force to the vehicle by adjusting a hydraulic pressure in a wheel cylinder provided in a wheel, the braking control apparatus includes: an electronic control unit (100) configured to, when the hydraulic braking force is reduced based on a reduction in brake operation amount that is an operation amount of a brake operation member, execute a correction process, the correction process being a process of reducing the regenerative braking force that is being imparted to the vehicle by the drive regeneration imparting device.

Abstract: The brake control device applied to a hydraulic pressure braking force generating device having a driving hydraulic pressure generating device and a pilot hydraulic pressure generating device. The brake control device includes a judging portion which judges whether or not an operating amount of a brake operating member is equal to or less than a predetermined value and a pilot hydraulic pressure control portion which controls the pilot hydraulic pressure generating device to generate a preparatory hydraulic pressure in the pilot hydraulic pressure chamber which is larger than an atmospheric pressure set to a value so that a hydraulic pressure in the wheel cylinder is kept substantially to an atmospheric pressure level when the judging portion judges that the operating amount of the brake operating member is equal to or less than the predetermined value to suppress occurrence of brake dragging during non-braking operation with keeping the braking force responsiveness.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vehicle brake device which can secure the durability of a linear valve for controlling a servo pressure. The brake ECU of the vehicle brake device sets a reference servo pressure based on the operating amount of a brake pedal when the vehicle is stopped and sets a target servo pressure based on the reference servo pressure during one braking operation. Further, the brake ECU sets the reference servo pressure based on the operating amount of the brake pedal when the servo pressure calculated in response to the operating amount of the brake pedal exceeds the servo pressure change threshold value set with a deviation from the reference servo pressure calculated in response to the brake pedal operating amount.

Abstract: The brake controller includes a friction brake device, a regeneration brake device, a required braking force calculating portion, a vehicle motion control portion which distributes the required braking force to the non-regeneration braking side right/left wheels that is either one of the right/left front wheels and right/left rear wheels, a maximum braking force calculating portion which calculates the maximum braking force at each wheel and a braking force control portion-which calculates the regeneration braking force generated at the regeneration braking side right/left wheels within a range where the regeneration braking force to be generated at the regeneration braking side right/left wheels does not exceed a smaller value of the maximum braking forces of the regeneration braking side right/left wheels, based on the required braking force and the distribution of the braking force to the non-regeneration braking side right/left wheels.

Abstract: The brake ECU applies the target braking force by controlling the hydraulic pressure braking force generating device and the regeneration braking force generating device and the brake ECU further controls the advance speed of the output piston so that a drawn-into of a brake operating member can be prevented upon supplying the wheel cylinders from the master cylinder with the brake fluid by advancing the output piston thereby to improve the brake operating feeling of the brake operating member by preventing the brake operating member from being drawn into.

Abstract: A brake control device for a vehicle which can prevent occurrence of hunting or stepping during braking control operation and includes a pressure increasing or decreasing characteristic selecting portion which selects a pressure increasing characteristic when a target wheel cylinder pressure increases continuously for a predetermined operation judgment period and selects a pressure decreasing characteristic when the target wheel cylinder pressure decreases continuously for a predetermined operation judgment period. The brake control device further includes an output servo pressure setting portion which sets a target servo pressure based on the pressure increasing or decreasing characteristic selected by the pressure increasing or decreasing characteristic selecting portion and a servo pressure generating device which generates a servo pressure based on the target servo pressure.

Abstract: The vehicle braking device has a hydraulic braking force generating device, a regeneration braking force generating device, a braking operation amount detection portion and a required braking force calculation portion. The vehicle braking device controls the hydraulic braking force generating device and the regeneration braking force generating device so as to apply the required braking force to the wheels. The vehicle braking device has a braking force adjustment control portion for executing braking force adjustment control for limiting the rate at which the regeneration braking force is increased and increasing the hydraulic braking force before the current regeneration braking force reaches a maximum regeneration braking force, that is, the maximum braking force that can be generated by the regeneration braking force generating device.

Abstract: Vibrations of a hydraulic pressure in an upstream portion due to operations of a slip control device during anti-lock control are transmitted to a control pressure chamber via a pressurizing piston of a master cylinder and a control piston of a regulator. During anti-lock control, in contrast, a pressure-increase linear valve and a pressure-reduction linear valve are opened, allowing change in volume of the control pressure chamber, resulting in reduction in stiffness. This reduction suppresses vibrations of a hydraulic pressure in the control pressure chamber, resulting in suppression of vibrations of a hydraulic pressure in a front pressure chamber. As a result, it is possible to reduce the lowering in control accuracy for a hydraulic pressure in a brake cylinder in anti-lock control using the hydraulic pressure in the front pressure chamber, which can well avoid a long braking distance.

Abstract: A braking device for a vehicle includes an operating characteristics setting portion for setting an operating characteristic which is a relationship between the input electric power to the electro-magnetic valve and a pressure difference between a master cylinder side and a wheel cylinder side with respect to the electro-magnetic valve, based on the input electric power at the time when the accumulator pressure detected by the accumulator pressure detecting portion first falls to a value equal to or less than a threshold value accumulator pressure by changing the input electric power towards an opening side of the electro-magnetic valve in response to a time lapsed after a predetermined value of the pilot pressure has been generated by the pilot pressure generating portion by first closing the electro-magnetic valve thereby to suppress the manufacturing cost.

Abstract: When a brake switch is switched from OFF to ON, current is applied to a brake ECU, and a command to switch a master cylinder from a second state to a first state is issued after a lapse of preparation time, so that switching-time change suppression control is performed. A reservoir shutoff valve is closed, and duty control is performed on a communication control valve. The duty ratio is set to 1 when a switching-time control duration expires, and the communication control valve is placed in an open position, to establish the first state. Thus, since the communication control valve is duty-controlled during switching from the second state to the first state, change in the hydraulic pressure of an input chamber is suppressed, and change of the operating feeling is suppressed.

Abstract: The vehicle braking control device adapted to a vehicle brake device having an electromagnetic valve which controls the brake fluid flow between the master cylinder and the wheel cylinders in response to the input electric energy. The vehicle braking control device includes a valve opening electric energy obtaining portion which obtains an input electric energy upon opening of the electromagnetic valve as a valve opening electric energy and an operation characteristic setting portion which sets an operation characteristic based on the valve opening electric energy obtained corresponding to the predetermined pressure differential. The opening valve electric energy obtaining portion changes the input electric energy at a valve closing side or a valve opening side with a change amount per unit of time larger than before valve opening in response to an obtaining of the valve opening electric energy.

Abstract: A hydraulic braking system includes: a cylinder device including a pressurizing piston, a rear chamber, and a front pressure chamber on opposite sides of the pressurizing piston; a brake cylinder coupled to the front pressure chamber; a regulator including a control piston, an input chamber provided at a rear of the control piston, and an output chamber coupled to the rear chamber in front of the control piston; and an input-hydraulic-pressure control device including a high-flow-rate supply unit configured, when an operation of the regulator is started, to supply the working fluid to the input chamber at a set flow rate; and a low-flow-rate supply unit configured, when the supply is finished, to supply the working fluid to the input chamber at a flow rate less than the set flow rate.

Abstract: A hydraulic braking system includes: a master cylinder including: a pressurizing piston fluid-tightly and slidably fitted in a housing; a front pressure chamber located in front of the pressurizing piston and connected to a brake cylinder; and a rear chamber located behind the pressurizing piston; a rear-hydraulic-pressure control device connected to the rear chamber of the master cylinder and configured to supply control hydraulic pressure to the rear chamber; and an air bleeding device configured to perform air bleeding for an air bleeding target portion as at least a portion of the rear-hydraulic-pressure control device, in a state in which working fluid is prevented from being supplied to the rear chamber.

Abstract: An engine controlling apparatus for executing (i) an engine automatic stop control and/or (ii) an engine automatic restart control, during running of a vehicle. The controlling apparatus includes: an allowing/inhibiting device configured to selectively allow and inhibit execution of (i) the engine automatic stop control and/or (ii) the engine automatic restart control, by comparing each of at least one of (a) a plurality of physical amounts including (a-1) behavior-representing physical amounts and (a-2) turning-behavior-influencing physical amounts, with (b) a threshold value which is determined, depending on a running velocity of the vehicle, for the each of the at least one of the physical amounts. The behavior-representing physical amounts include at least one turning-behavior-representing physical amount.

Abstract: The braking device for a vehicle includes a judging portion which judges whether the input piston and the output piston are in contact with or separated from each other and a control portion which outputs the control signal to the pilot pressure generating device so that the hydraulic pressure detected by the hydraulic pressure detecting device becomes a target value corresponding to a vehicle state, when judged that the input piston is not in contact with the output piston and outputs another control signal to the pilot pressure generating device, by which the pilot pressure becomes higher than the pilot pressure generated under a same vehicle state to a vehicle state in a case that the control signal is outputted when the judging portion judges that the input piston is not in contact with the output piston, when judged that the input piston is in contact with the output piston.

Abstract: The brake control device applied to a hydraulic pressure braking force generating device having a driving hydraulic pressure generating device and a pilot hydraulic pressure generating device. The brake control device includes a judging portion which judges whether or not an operating amount of a brake operating member is equal to or less than a predetermined value and a pilot hydraulic pressure control portion which controls the pilot hydraulic pressure generating device to generate a preparatory hydraulic pressure in the pilot hydraulic pressure chamber which is larger than an atmospheric pressure set to a value so that a hydraulic pressure in the wheel cylinder is kept substantially to an atmospheric pressure level when the judging portion judges that the operating amount of the brake operating member is equal to or less than the predetermined value to suppress occurrence of brake dragging during non-braking operation with keeping the braking force responsiveness.

Abstract: The vehicle brake device includes a hydraulic pressure brake device including a timing judging portion, a pressure increasing judging portion and a raising control portion for adding a raising amount of pressure selected and set from a first value relating to an allowable range, a second value relating to a response delay by filling a wheel cylinder with the operating fluid and a third value relating to a control delay relative to an electromagnetic valve which controls the hydraulic pressure braking force to the target pressure corresponding to a judgment result by the pressure increasing judging portion, when the timing judging portion judges that a time is the timing of raising.

Abstract: The brake control device comprises a control mode selecting portion 64 which selects one control mode based on a detection result of the detecting portion from a control mode group including at least two control modes which are a responsiveness priority mode which gives more priority to a responsiveness of the braking force relative to an operation of a brake operating member than to a suppression of an operating noise occurred upon the generation of the preparatory hydraulic pressure and a serenity priority mode which gives more priority to the suppression of the operating noise than to the responsiveness of the braking force. The hydraulic pressure control portion controls the hydraulic pressure generating device to generate the preparatory hydraulic pressure in response to the control mode selected by the control mode selecting portion.

Abstract: The braking control device for controlling a master cylinder device includes a housing, an output piston, an input piston, a separation chamber opening and closing portion, and a driving hydraulic pressure generating portion, and is provided with an operation control for controlling the master cylinder device in an operation force operating state (regulator mode) in which the output piston is driven by operation force on a brake operation member and in a driving hydraulic pressure operating state (linear mode) in which the output piston is driven by driving hydraulic pressure from the driving hydraulic pressure generating portion; a brake operation judgment portion for judging the presence or absence of a brake operation and the probability thereof and a state transition limiter for limiting at least one of state transitions between the operating states when the presence of the brake operation and possibility thereof is determined.