A parking brake fail safety control system and method for a vehicle having an electric-axle, may enable safe parking braking on a level ground, a slope, etc. By controlling the torque from a first motor configured for a rear wheel-first electric-axle and the torque from a second motor configured for a rear wheel-second electric-axle to have the same magnitude in opposite directions and by increasing/decreasing the torque from the first motor and the torque from the second motor, depending on a change of wheel speed when a parking brake fails.

An electronically controllable brake system for a vehicle includes at least one service brake circuit with service brakes and a service brake control module. A service-brake brake pressure can be fed to the service brakes, and the service-brake control module is configured to generate a service-brake control signal as a function of a braking specification. The service-brake brake pressure can be generated as a function of the service-brake control signal and specified to the service brakes, for the implementation of the braking specification via the at least one service brake circuit, under electrical control. The brake system further includes a trailer control valve with a trailer control module. The trailer control module is configured to receive and process an electronically communicated braking specification and the trailer control valve is configured to generate and output, under the control of the trailer control module, a redundancy control pressure.

A brake system in a motor vehicle, the friction brake system of which, on the front and rear wheels, each case including vehicle wheel brakes which can be actuated via an electronic control device which includes an axle-specific braking force distributor unit by which a front axle target deceleration and a rear axle target deceleration can be determined from a friction brake system target deceleration, and which includes a wheel-specific braking force distributor unit by which front wheel target decelerations can be determined from the front axle target deceleration, and rear wheel target decelerations can be determined from the rear axle target deceleration, on the basis of which the wheel-specific braking force distributor unit generates control signals for the actuation of the vehicle wheel brakes.

A braking control device includes a stop holding controller and an uneven-ground traveling determination unit. After the vehicle makes a stop and a brake operation performed by a driver who drives the vehicle is canceled, the stop holding controller is configured to perform execution of a stop holding control that includes holding braking force of the vehicle and canceling the braking force in response to a predetermined start operation performed by the driver. The uneven-ground traveling determination unit is configured to determine whether the vehicle is traveling on an uneven ground. The stop holding controller is configured to disable the execution of the stop holding control in a case where the uneven-ground traveling determination unit determines that the vehicle is traveling on the uneven ground.

A control device includes an additional deceleration calculation unit that calculates an additional deceleration (G×add) to be applied to the vehicle based on the steering angle, a target control amount calculation unit that calculates the control amount for the vehicle behavior changing device based on the additional deceleration, a rough road level calculation unit that calculates a rough road level of a road based on a wheel speed, and a control amount correction unit that corrects the control amount based on the rough road level, the rough road level calculation unit being configured to correct the wheel speed so as to remove a change thereof caused by the cornering maneuver of the vehicle, and to calculate the rough road level by using the corrected wheel speed.

A braking control system and method of a vehicle are configured to safely stop the vehicle by determining whether a brake line fails via detecting a change in braking pressure and compensating for braking force through an engaging operation of an electric parking brake (EPB) when determining that the brake line fails in association with driver manipulation of the brake pedal. The braking control system includes: a vehicle speed detector; a wheel lock detector; a brake pedal operation detector that determines whether a brake pedal is operated; a brake line failure detector that determines whether the brake line fails when the brake pedal is operated; and a controller configured to engage the EPB when a current vehicle speed is equal to or greater than a predetermined vehicle speed, a current state is a wheel-unlock state, and the brake line fails.

An integrated electronic brake system includes a main control section configured in a first area to receive one or more of a value from a pedal sensor, a value from a cylinder pressure sensor, a value from a wheel speed sensor, or an EPB signal to perform EPB control and drive a main braking valve and a braking motor for the main braking of a vehicle, and to drive an additional braking valve for the additional braking, a sub-control section configured in a second area to receive one or more of the value from the pedal sensor, the value from the wheel speed sensor, or the EPB signal to perform the EPB control and drive the main braking valve and the braking motor through a bypass circuit, and a connection bus connecting the first area and the second area mounted in one box to transfer signals between the main control section and the sub-control section.

The invention relates to a slope brake pressure determining method and system. The method includes: a pre-braking slope estimated value is determined according to a specified cycle, where a current pre-braking slope estimated value is determined and is used as a first slope estimated value a.sub.estimate1, and a pre-braking slope estimated value of a previous cycle that is latched prior to the establishment of brake pressure is used as a second slope estimated value a.sub.estimate2; an instantaneous vehicle speed v.sub.brake prior to the establishment of the brake pressure is latched, a vehicle traveling distance l.sub.brake and time t.sub.brake are accumulated, and an in-braking slope estimated value a.sub.slop is determined based on the instantaneous vehicle speed v.sub.brake, the vehicle traveling distance l.sub.brake, and the time t.sub.brake; and pre-braking pressure p1 and in-braking pressure p2 are determined based on the second slope estimated value a.sub.estimate2 and a third slope estimated value a.sub.estimate3, respectively, initial brake pressure p3 is determined based on the pre-braking pressure p1 and the in-braking pressure p2, and final brake pressure p4 is determined based on the initial brake pressure p3. According to the invention, the brake pressure can be accurately determined.

The braking device for vehicles includes a reduction amount setting part for setting the amount by which to reduce the revolution of a pump motor during maintenance or reduction of controllable differential pressure so that the reduction amount decreases as the probability increases of needing to discharge the brake fluid by pumps, during a period from when a brake controller begins reducing the revolution until the lapse of prescribed time.

A method is for adjusting an application pressure of a vehicle brake, in particular a commercial vehicle disc brake, of a motor vehicle while the motor vehicle is in motion. The method includes the following steps: applying an initial application pressure to the vehicle brake, determining a braking effect of the vehicle brake while the initial application pressure is applied to the vehicle brake, comparing the determined braking effect with a limit braking effect, reducing the initial application pressure to a reduced application pressure if the determined braking effect exceeds the limit braking effect.