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| 20080290725 | Hydraulic Braking System For A Land Craft - A hydraulic brake system for a land vehicle, having a master cylinder, which is actuable by the driver by means of a pedal directly or via a brake booster disposed downstream of the pedal, for generating brake pressure in two brake circuits, each of which comprises two wheel brakes, wherein a hydraulic connection between the master cylinder and the wheel brakes is to be established or blocked by valve arrangements in dependence upon trigger signals from an electronic control unit in order to implement normal braking operations brought about directly by the driver or braking operations influenced by the electronic control unit in dependence upon measured variables, which are supplied to the electronic control unit and reflect the vehicle behaviour and/or the driver request, in that the brake pressure characteristic in the wheel brakes is varied by activating the valve arrangements associated therewith, wherein the electronic control unit is devised and programmed in such a way that, in order to set a brake pressure characteristic required for a specific vehicle behaviour, it supplies trigger signals, by means of which the setting of a respective brake pressure characteristic in the two brake circuits in predefined pressure stages (delta-p) is staggered in terms of time by a substantially predefined time stage (delta-t). | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090222185 | Method and system for controlling states of travel of a land craft - Method and system for controlling driving conditions of a land vehicle, with which, if understeering and oversteering driving conditions exist at the same time, measures for generating braking forces and/or driving forces which counteract the understeering driving condition, and measures for controlling braking forces and/or driving forces which counteract the oversteering driving condition are carried out at the same time. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090273231 | METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR STOPPING A MOTOR VEHICLE WITHOUT JOLTING - A method of stopping a motor vehicle without jolting is described, which is characterized in that a sum of the hydraulic fluid pressures generated by a foot-force-actuable brake system and acting upon the braking devices of the motor vehicle during the stopping operation is reduced in a driver-independent manner by 30% to 70% in dependence upon a variable that is related to the vehicle velocity. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090299597 | Pressure-controlled hydraulic brake system for a land craft - Hydraulic brake system for a land vehicle comprising a control unit ECU that is devised such that it supplies control signals ECU for controlling automatic braking operations of the brake system, a master cylinder, which has an output side, for generating brake pressure under the control of a driver, a first brake circuit I comprising a first controllable pump, which has an output side, for generating brake pressure in the first brake circuit I under the control of the control unit ECU, and a first valve arrangement having an input side, which is fluidically connected to the output side of the master cylinder, and an output side, which is fluidically connected to the output side of the first pump, wherein the first valve arrangement has an open operating state, in which the input side and the output side of the first valve arrangement are fluidically connected, and a closed operating state, in which the fluid connection between the input side and the output side of the first valve arrangement is interrupted, and method of controlling such a brake system, in which brake system and method during an automatic braking operation the first valve arrangement is opened and closed in such a way that a predetermined pressure is adjusted at the output side of the first valve arrangement. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090306870 | Antilock Brake System For A Land Craft - Hydraulic brake system and method for controlling a hydraulic brake system for a land craft, in which a quantity of hydraulic fluid delivered to wheel brakes during pressure build-up phases in antilock braking mode is limited so that substantially no hydraulic fluid thereof can flow to a master cylinder. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090306871 | Compensation of reduced braking effect of a hydraulic brake system for a land craft - The invention relates to a hydraulic brake system and a method for controlling a hydraulic brake system for a land vehicle having a predetermined holding capacity for hydraulic fluid and at least one wheel brake. The invention is characterized by detecting if a current holding capacity of the brake system has increased in relation to the predetermined holding capacity and, if so, by feeding hydraulic fluid to the at least one wheel brake in a controlled manner and an amount corresponding at least to the increase in capacity. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090319118 | Electronic Stabilty Program for a Land Vehicle - The invention concerns an electronic vehicle dynamics regulation system for a land vehicle, which system is set up for steering and braking intervention, and with which a sensor arrangement is associated, which sensor arrangement, for a steering intervention device and for a braking system which builds up braking forces independently of or in addition to the driver, captures the yaw angular velocity and/or the transverse acceleration and feeds them to the steering intervention device and braking system. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100033009 | Method and Device for Tightening a Hydraulic Parking Brake - A method and a device for tightening a hydraulic parking brake are disclosed. In the method, a tightening force is generated in a first step by creating a hydraulic pressure in a parking brake circuit. To this end, a pressure generating unit driven by an electric motor is used. In a subsequent step, at least one motor-related parameter which permits a conclusion about the hydraulic pressure prevailing in the parking brake circuit is detected. Subsequently, an activation of a tightening force assistance device takes place depending on the detected motor-related parameter and without the necessity of providing a pressure sensor. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100045098 | Devices and methods for hydraulic brake systems for land craft - Device and method for a hydraulic brake system of a land vehicle in order to block a brake circuit of the brake system with regard to a supply of brake pressure generated by a driver, to establish a hydraulic connection between the output side of a wheel brake and the input side of a controllable pump and to generate a predetermined brake pressure at the input side of the wheel brake by means of the pump. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20110037310 | Technology for the Electronic Brake Force Distribution in a Vehicle Brake System Equipped with a Hydraulic Brake Servo - The invention relates to a technology for effecting electronic brake force distribution in a vehicle brake system, which is equipped with a hydraulic brake boosting, comprising detecting a state requiring an electronic brake boosting and a limiting of the brake pressure generation of the hydraulic brake boosting according to the electronic brake boosting. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110042171 | Procedure for Actuating a Hydraulic Parking Brake - A procedure for actuating a parking brake is described, the parking brake comprising a brake piston which is received in a hydraulic chamber and is displaceable within the hydraulic chamber by means of a hydraulic actuator on the one hand and a mechanical actuator on the other. During operation of the parking brake the mechanical actuator is activated in a first step in order to displace the brake piston in the hydraulic chamber in such a way that a volume of a hydraulic fluid contained in the hydraulic chamber is increased. At a subsequent time the hydraulic actuator is activated in order to build up or increase a clamping force of the parking brake. The hydraulically generated or increased clamping force is then maintained by means of the mechanical actuator. | 02-24-2011 |
