Detail Patents (Class 303/9.75)
  • Patent number: 11548487
    Abstract: A lane departure prevention system includes a controller configured to control a braking force of vehicle wheels such that a lane departure prevention yaw moment is applied to a vehicle. The controller determines whether there is a likelihood that the vehicle enters a spinning state based on at least one of a difference between an actual yaw rate and a normative yaw rate of the vehicle calculated based on a steering angle, a vehicle speed, and the lane departure prevention yaw moment, and a degree of braking slip of a turning inside wheel when the lane departure prevention yaw moment is a yaw moment for preventing departure of the vehicle from a lane to a turning outside, and applies a spin prevention yaw moment to the vehicle when it is determined that there is a likelihood that the vehicle will enter the spinning state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hisanori Mitsumoto
  • Patent number: 11377077
    Abstract: A brake system for vehicles may have at least one front automatic actuator device, operatively connected to a manual actuator device by means of a first control unit, and to at least one braking device of a first axle. The system may also include at least one rear automatic actuator device, operatively connected to the manual actuator device via a second control unit, and to the at least one braking device of a second axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Freni Brembo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Massimo Di Stefano, Beniamin Szewczyk, Michele Rota, Samuele Mazzoleni
  • Patent number: 11104319
    Abstract: A braking control device for imparting brake fluid pressure on wheel cylinders in response to operation of a braking operation member to produce braking force includes: first and second fluid pressure units for imparting brake fluid pressure by first and second power sources respectively; and a determining device for determining whether or not operation of the first fluid pressure unit is appropriate. When the determining device determines that operation is appropriate, the first fluid pressure unit imparts brake fluid pressure based on a suitability characteristic, which is the relationship between the brake fluid pressure and the braking operation member operation amount, set in advance. The second fluid pressure unit has proximity characteristics, generally matching the suitability characteristic, and notification characteristics, different from the suitability characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: ADVICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Ishida, Takayuki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9010879
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a pre-fill system to improve brake feel and a method of increasing an initial flux using the same which may reduce an invalid travel distance of a brake pedal. The pre-fill system includes a first housing connected with the master cylinder and provided with a first bore having a smaller-diameter portion and a larger-diameter portion, a second housing provided with a stepped second bore communicating with the first bore to be coupled with the first housing to define a hydraulic pressure chamber, a piston arranged in the first bore and provided with an oil channel unit, and a valve assembly adapted to open and close the oil channel unit of the piston according to the hydraulic brake pressure, wherein the piston applies pressure to the hydraulic pressure chamber through the piston to supply hydraulic pressure to the disc brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Mando Corporation
    Inventor: Young Hun Kong
  • Publication number: 20150061360
    Abstract: A brake cylinder maintaining valve feeds brake pipe (BP) pressure through a choke to replenish and maintain brake cylinder (BC) pressure up, when the pressure in the brake cylinder drops below its original set pressure. In one embodiment, the brake cylinder maintaining valve may be a differential type valve having an input diaphragm and an output diaphragm having different surface areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: New York Air Brake Corporation
    Inventor: Lawrence E. Vaughn
  • Publication number: 20150025767
    Abstract: A method and system for operating a motor vehicle brake system, including several wheel brakes, an electrically controllable pressure supply device, dispenses a pressure medium volume for actuating the brakes, and an analogized or analog-controlled inlet valve, arranged in each wheel brake between the pressure supply device and wheel brake, for adjusting wheel-individual brake pressures. A check valve is connected in parallel to each inlet valve. At the start of a wheel-individual brake pressure control, all inlet valves are closed, and a pressure build-up is carried out in a predetermined group of one or more wheel brakes by displacing a pressure medium volume into the predetermined group of wheel brakes by the pressure supply device. Each inlet valve of the predetermined group is controlled such that the inlet valve is overflowed, wherein each inlet valve of the remaining wheel brakes is controlled such that the inlet valve remains closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventor: Hans-Jörg Feigel
  • Publication number: 20140225425
    Abstract: A brake system includes a brake pedal for actuating a master cylinder having two pistons and corresponding pressure chambers, where the system can be operated in a brake-by-wire mode and also a fallback mode. The system also includes a first electrically controllable pressure source and a second electrically controllable pressure source. The first and second electrically controllable pressure sources each have corresponding output flows that are connected together. The second electrically controllable pressure source can therefore provide output volume flow in the event the first electrically controllable pressure source fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Stefan A. Drumm, Steffen Linkenbach
  • Patent number: 8789895
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake system includes a master cylinder, a wheel brake, an electronic valve provided to each of an inlet and an outlet of each of wheel brakes, a pump compressing oil stored in a low pressure accumulator such that oil is ejected towards the wheel brake or master cylinder, an orifice disposed near an outlet port of the pump, a first hydraulic circuit connecting a first port of the master cylinder to two wheel brakes to control transmission of hydraulic pressure, and a second hydraulic circuit connecting a second port of the master cylinder to the remaining two wheel brakes to control transmission of hydraulic pressure, wherein a damper unit is disposed between the outlet port of the pump and the orifice to relieve a pulsation phenomenon. The damper unit allows main flow passages of the first and second hydraulic circuits to communicate with each other therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mando Corporation
    Inventor: Seung Young Park
  • Patent number: 8764124
    Abstract: A brake control apparatus includes a braking force generating section and a control unit. The braking force generating section generates braking forces at wheels of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Furuyama
  • Publication number: 20130207452
    Abstract: A hydraulic assembly for a vehicle brake system comprising at least two brake circuits and wheel brakes associated with the brake circuits. The hydraulic assembly comprises a pressure generator for generating a central hydraulic pressure for the brake circuits independently of the driver at least in the case of service braking initiated by the driver. Furthermore, at least one pressure adjusting device is provided for adjusting for each individual brake circuit the central hydraulic pressure that is generated by the pressure generator independently of the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: LUCAS AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Leo Gilles, Boris Koeth
  • Patent number: 8430459
    Abstract: Disclosed is a hydraulic brake system capable of reducing periodic pressure pulsation caused by operation of a piston. The hydraulic brake system includes a master cylinder generating braking hydraulic pressure by operation of a brake pedal, a wheel brake provided to each of front right and left wheels and rear right and left wheels of a vehicle to receive the braking hydraulic pressure from the master cylinder to generate braking force, a solenoid valve provided to each of an inlet and an outlet of each of the wheel brakes to control flow of the braking hydraulic pressure, a low pressure accumulator temporarily storing oil, which is ejected from the wheel brakes during operation of the solenoid valves, a pump compressing the oil stored in the low pressure accumulator such that the oil is ejected towards the wheel brakes or the master cylinder as needed, and an orifice disposed near an outlet port of the pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Mando Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Young Park, Seong Ho Choi
  • Publication number: 20120261980
    Abstract: A balanced brake control system is provided for use in aircraft. An embodiment of the invention is presented for an aircraft having struts with both inboard and outboard braked wheels on the struts. In the detailed embodiment, an equalizer circuit is interposed between right and left brake pedals on an input side thereof and right and left inboard and outboard brakes on an output side thereof. This equalizer circuit ensures a first equal application of brake pressure to the right inboard and outboard brakes and a second equal application of brake pressure to the left inboard and outboard brakes, dependent upon pilot control of brake pedals. The first and second equal applications of brake pressure may differ to accommodate differential braking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2011
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Richard P. Hurst, Arnold A. Beck
  • Publication number: 20120169112
    Abstract: A brake system for motor vehicles, which brake system can be actuated both by the vehicle driver and also independently of the vehicle driver in a “brake by wire” operating mode, is preferentially operated in the “brake by wire” operating mode, and can be operated in at least one fall-back operating mode in which only operation by the vehicle driver is possible. The brake system has inter alia an electrohydraulic pressure generating device (5) which outputs a brake system pressure, and a pressure modulation unit which has one inlet valve (6a-6d) and one outlet valve (7a-7d) per wheel brake (8, 9, 10, 11) for setting wheel-specific brake pressures derived from the brake system pressure, wherein the inlet and outlet valves (6a-6d, 7a-7d) output or transmit the brake system pressure when in the non-actuated state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OAG
    Inventors: Johann Jungbecker, Steffen Linkenbach, Stefan A. Drumm, Lothar Schiel, Ronald Bayer, Marco Besier
  • Publication number: 20120049617
    Abstract: A brake control apparatus includes a braking force generating section and a control unit. The braking force generating section generates braking forces at wheels of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi FURUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20120013173
    Abstract: A braking system may include a brake booster, the piston-cylinder system of which is driven by an electric motor, wherein at least one working chamber of the piston-cylinder system is connected by hydraulic lines to at least two wheel brakes, a wheel brake being allocated a 2/2-way switching valve in each case and the hydraulic connection lines between the wheel brakes and the piston-cylinder system being closable, optionally separately or jointly, by means of the 2/2-way switching valves, so that a pressure can be adjusted in the wheel brakes one after the other in terms of a multiplex method and/or simultaneously, the electric motor and switching valves being activated by a control device, and in that the hydraulic connection line from the working chamber of the piston-cylinder system to the respective magnetic valve has a flow resistance RLi and each switching valve together with the hydraulic line to the wheel cylinder, has a flow resistances RVi wherein the flow resistance RLi and RVi are small such that
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: IPGATE AG
    Inventors: Heinz Leiber, Anton V. Zanten, Christian Koglsperger
  • Publication number: 20110031804
    Abstract: A braking system includes: a first connecting line (L18) that connects an upstream side of a 11-system valve (25b) and a 12-system valve (25c) within a first system (25) to any one of a position between a 21-system valve (26b) and a left front wheel cylinder (27c) or a position between a 22-system valve (26c) and a right rear wheel cylinder (27d); a second connecting line (L28) that connects an upstream side of the 21-system valve (26b) and 22-system valve (26c) within the second system (26) to any one of a position between the 12-system valve (25c) and a left rear wheel cylinder (27b) or a position between the 11-system valve (25b) and a right front wheel cylinder (27a); a first changeover valve (25d) that is provided in the first connecting line (L18); and a second changeover valve (26d) that is provided in the second connecting line (L28).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Michihito Shimada, Kazuya Maki
  • Publication number: 20100283315
    Abstract: In a vehicle braking apparatus, a pressure control valve is controlled according to a brake operation amount of a brake pedal to thereby regulate hydraulic pressure and supply it to wheel cylinders. By controlling the pressure control valve by using hydraulic pressure output from a master cylinder as pilot pressure, the hydraulic pressure can be regulated and supplied to the wheel cylinders. A master cut valve capable of opening and closing a first hydraulic pipe that supplies the hydraulic pressure from the master cylinder to the wheel cylinders is provided. An external pressure supply pipe that supplies the pilot pressure to the pressure control valve is connected to the first hydraulic pipe on a side of the master cut valve closer to the wheel cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroshi Isono
  • Patent number: 7775606
    Abstract: A motor vehicle brake power proportioning device has a brake control force proportioned by a balance-beam-type device at a variable ratio onto different brake cylinders, particularly to the master brake cylinders of the front and rear axle of the motor vehicle. The balance-beam-type device is configured so that a lever arm adjustment, that is continuously a function of the brake control force, can be achieved for a constant course of the proportioning of the brake control force onto the brake cylinders. For achieving the lever arm adjustment as a function of the brake control force, at least one section of the balance-beam-type device is continuously deformable as a function of the brake control force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Garbe
  • Publication number: 20100109427
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic vehicle brake system with slip control. The invention proposes that wheel brakes at wheels of a front axle are of self-amplifying design in order to provide boosting of the brake force. An otherwise conventional vacuum brake force booster can be dispensed with. The invention further relates to a method for operating a hydraulic vehicle brake system, according to which, at high lining friction values, brake fluid is conducted, in a manner controlled by a valve, into a hydraulic reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Inventor: Dietmar Baumann
  • Patent number: 7651174
    Abstract: The device comprises a leaktight housing which is hydraulically connected between braking elements of the front and rear wheel(s). The housing comprises a body and fittings which enable the hydraulic fluid to flow into the braking elements of the rear wheels until an adjustable set pressure is obtained, after which the pressure is reduced in the braking elements of the rear wheel(s) in a manner which is proportional to the pressure increase in the braking elements of the front wheel(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: SA Beringer
    Inventor: Gilbert Beringer
  • Publication number: 20080136249
    Abstract: A breaking hydraulic circuit for linear pressure reduction of a front/rear wheel breaking liquid pressure in a vehicle includes a liquid pressure return line formed between wheel cylinders and a master cylinder, and a two-system liquid pressure control circuit separately passing liquid pressures to be discharged from the wheel cylinders and then unifies the liquid pressures. The breaking hydraulic circuit has normal open type solenoid valves and normal close type solenoid valves. In the breaking hydraulic circuit, linear control of a front/rear wheel breaking liquid pressure is realized at a time of implementation of ABS (Antilock Brake System) or TCS (Traction Control System), and a difference in pressure intensification gradient according to a difference in generation time between the front and rear wheels is eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Applicant: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Won PARK, Soung Jun PARK
  • Patent number: 7201455
    Abstract: A road vehicle hydraulic brake system, having a master brake cylinder for generating a master cylinder pressure based on the braking intent of a driver of the vehicle, having a hydraulic unit connected between the master brake cylinder and at least one wheel brake cylinder of at least one wheel, and a method of control thereof are described. The hydraulic unit, with which a brake pressure boost is achievable by generating in the at least one wheel brake cylinder a wheel cylinder pressure greater than the master cylinder pressure, has a system of actuatable valves and at least one hydraulic pump. A differential pressure valve between the master brake cylinder and the hydraulic unit opens or closes the hydraulic connection between the master brake cylinder and the hydraulic unit at a predetermined pressure difference between the master cylinder pressure and the wheel cylinder pressure, to increase the wheel cylinder pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: Robert Bosch, GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Quirant, Guenther Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7093911
    Abstract: A hydraulic braking system including first and second braking circuits. The first and second braking circuits each include a wheel brake, a pressurized fluid source, and a hydraulic conduit connecting the wheel brake to the fluid source. Each of the hydraulic conduits includes a control valve that operates to selectively prevent fluid flow from the pressurized fluid source to the wheel brake. A connecting conduit connects the first and second braking circuits. A floating piston is disposed within the connecting conduit and is adapted to be displaced by the pressurized fluid provided by the pressurized fluid source in the first braking circuit when the control valve of the first braking circuit is closed. The displacement of the piston generates an additional volume of pressurized fluid in the hydraulic conduit of the second braking circuit that effectively augments the pressurized fluid provided by the second pressurized fluid source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Kelsey-Hayes Company
    Inventors: Patrick H. Hool, Gamil M. Rizk
  • Patent number: 6733090
    Abstract: In a hydraulic vehicle braking systems operable via hydraulic external energy from a pump or, in the event the pump malfunctions, via hydraulic energy made available using a master brake cylinder via muscle-powered energy, provision is made for safe braking via muscle-powered energy such that at least one cylinder-piston configuration isolates at least two wheel brakes from the hydraulic pressure medium that is able to be pumped by the pump. The hydraulic vehicle-braking system incorporates wheel brakes of one axle that is isolated from a hydraulic pump in terms of pressure medium by a cylinder-piston configuration, which wheel brakes are supplied with pressure medium by one master cylinder chamber of a master brake cylinder. The other master brake cylinder chamber is allocated to the two other wheel brakes of the other vehicle axle, so that given bubble-free pressure medium downstream from the pump, the wheel brakes of both vehicle axles make a contribution to vehicle deceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Willem-Remco Pasterkamp, Werner Quirant
  • Patent number: 6309029
    Abstract: A braking device for a vehicle having an operational hydraulic brake system, and an electronically controlled brake system. The hydraulic brake system and the electronically controlled brake system act independently on a brake caliper of a hydraulic brake. The electronically controlled brake system independently controls the hydraulic actuator for applying a hydraulic pressure to the brake caliper with no interference between the brake systems, which increases the degree of freedom of electronic control of the brakes. A braking device is also applied in a vehicle having an ABS control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2001
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Wakabayashi, Kazuhiko Tani
  • Patent number: 6213566
    Abstract: An apparatus is described wherein for a device for controlling the flow of fluid. A housing having an inlet for receiving the fluid, an outlet for discharging the fluid, and a bore connecting the inlet to the outlet is provided. A piston is disposed in the bore and has a through bore for permitting the flow of the fluid through the piston. A valve member is disposed in the bore of the piston and adapted to engage an internal surface of the piston to block fluid flow through the piston and therefore through the housing, the piston responding to an increase in pressure at the outlet as a result of the fluid flow for moving in a direction toward the valve member until the valve member engages the piston surface to restrict fluid flow. A stop member is disposed in the housing and extends into the bore of the piston for stopping movement of the piston after it engages the valve member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Hilite Industries Automotive, LLP
    Inventor: Juan Diaz