A brake control valve arrangement includes an electro-pneumatic brake control valve block having a hold valve and a vent valve, a main regulator valve and an emergency and a tare pressure regulator. The valve block has an inlet for a brake supply pressure and an outlet for a brake cylinder, wherein an inlet and a vent pneumatic opening is provided for the hold valve and vent valve. The arrangement also includes a configuration module in pneumatic connection with the brake supply pressure and providing a pneumatic path to the inlet, and a pneumatic path to the vent valve from the brake cylinder, the arrangement also including at least one choke configured to control air flow in pneumatic paths to the inlet opening and vent opening.

An electropneumatic brake control module (1) has a supply connection (2) for connecting a compressed air supply (3); a first wheel brake connection (4) and a second wheel brake connection (6); a pneumatically controlled inlet-outlet valve unit (8) for controlling a first brake pressure (PB1) at the first wheel brake connection (4) and a second brake pressure (PB2) at the second wheel brake connection (6), which is independent of the first brake pressure (PB1); and an electropneumatic pilot control unit (10) for controlling at least one main control pressure (PH) at a main valve (12) of the inlet-outlet valve unit (10). The main valve (12) of the inlet-outlet valve unit (10) is a pneumatically controllable 3/2-way valve (13) with a main valve control connection (12.4).

A valve assembly for a vehicle brake apparatus is disclosed, including a solenoid valve, a pump housing having a bore accommodating the solenoid valve at least partially, a coil for applying a magnetic force to the solenoid valve, a circuit board configured to generate a signal for controlling opening and closing of the solenoid valve, a circuit board housing for accommodating the circuit board, a bobbin at least partially disposed inside the coil, a pin coupled to the bobbin and configured to supply an electric current to the coil, and a coil case at least partially disposed radially outwardly of the coil. Here, the bobbin is coupled with a compression unit that is in external contact with one surface of the circuit board and configured to compress the bobbin and the coil case toward the pump housing.

An automatic pressure regulating valve for multiple levels of driving automation of a commercial vehicle includes an upper valve body, a lower valve body, a piston, a main valve core assembly, a switching valve, a quick-acting intake valve, and a quick-acting exhaust valve. The switching valve, the quick-acting intake valve and the quick-acting exhaust valve are all mounted at an upper end of the upper valve body. The piston is located in a chamber formed by the upper valve body and the lower valve body to divide the chamber into an upper control chamber and a lower chamber. The main valve core assembly is mounted in the lower valve body. The automatic pressure regulating valve is applicable to a commercial vehicle allowing for multiple levels of driving automation.

An automatic pressure regulating valve for an electro-pneumatic braking system of a commercial vehicle comprises an upper valve body and a lower valve body. The upper valve body includes a normally open switching valve, a quick-acting intake valve, a normally open quick-acting intake valve, a quick-acting exhaust valve, and a control chamber A. A lower valve body includes a relay valve and a working chamber B. The normally open switching valve has a manually controlled air inlet a and an electronically controlled air inlet b, and an air outlet c connected to an air inlet d of the normally open quick-acting intake valve. An air outlet e of the normally open quick-acting intake valve, an air inlet f of the quick-acting exhaust valve and an air outlet i of the quick-acting air intake valve are connected together to the control chamber A.

A pneumatic automatic pressure regulating valve for automatic driving of a commercial vehicle includes an upper valve body and a lower valve body that form a chamber of the automatic pressure regulating valve. A quick-acting intake valve assembly and a quick-acting exhaust valve assembly are mounted on the upper valve body. A main valve core assembly is mounted on the lower valve body. The quick-acting intake valve and the quick-acting exhaust valve are normally closed and both are configured to regulate an air pressure in the control chamber A such that air enters the working chamber B to increase a pressure or is vented therefrom to reduce the pressure, thereby controlling a pressure in a brake chamber. The pneumatic automatic pressure regulating valve can be widely applied to autonomous vehicles or unmanned driving. The familiarity dependency of a driver on a valve control system is reduced.

An electropneumatic valve assembly is provided for actuating a parking brake function of an electropneumatic brake system of a commercial vehicle. The assembly includes a parking brake valve unit which receives supply pressure via a supply pressure path. A pneumatically self-holding trailer valve unit is connected to the supply pressure path and has a pneumatically switchable trailer supply valve. The supply valve provides a trailer supply pressure to a trailer supply port in dependence on an electronic trailer brake signal. The parking brake valve unit has a pilot valve unit and a main valve unit and the pilot valve unit outputs a parking brake control pressure at the main valve unit. The main valve unit outputs a parking brake pressure at a spring brake port. The valve assembly has a compensation valve to maintain the parking brake control pressure outputted at the main valve unit to compensate for valve leakage.

An electropneumatic valve assembly for actuating a parking brake function of an electropneumatic brake system of a commercial vehicle has a parking brake valve unit which receives supply pressure from a supply pressure path and outputs a parking brake pressure at least at one spring brake port in dependence on an electronic parking brake signal. A pneumatically switchable safety valve connects the supply pressure path to at least a first compressed air supply and in a supply position connects the compressed air supply to the supply pressure path and in an air release position releases air from the supply pressure path. A pneumatic safety valve control port of the safety valve is connected to the at least one compressed air supply. The safety valve switches into the supply position if the supply pressure provided by the at least a first compressed air supply exceeds a threshold value.

An electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) overlay control valve can selective switch between a conventional pneumatic mode and an ECP mode. In ECP mode, the overlay control valve shunts the brake cylinder pressure of the pneumatic control valve which allows a relay valve to build or exhaust pressure in the brake cylinder in response to an electronically controlled apply/release circuit. In conventional pneumatic mode, the overlay control valve disconnects the relay valve and allows a conventional pneumatic control valve to control the pressurization and exhausting of the brake cylinder.

A control arrangement for a vehicle motion system including a braking function, comprising motion actuators with one or more brake actuators pertaining to the braking function, a first vehicle motion management controller (VMM1) and a second vehicle motion management controller (VMM2), forming a redundant assembly to control the braking function, wherein, in riding conditions, the first vehicle motion management controller controls the brake actuators with a current nominal expected braking performance, while the second vehicle motion management controller (VMM2) is in a waiting-to-operate mode, the control arrangement comprising a hot swap functionality in which the second vehicle motion management controller (VMM2) is configured to take over control of the brake actuators from the first vehicle motion management controller, with the current nominal expected braking performance, in a short time period (SWT) less than one second, preferably less than 0.5 second, preferably less than 0.3 second, and associated control method.