A brake system may include an actuating device, in particular a brake pedal; a first piston-cylinder unit having two pistons subjecting the brake circuits to a pressure medium via a valve device, wherein one of the pistons can be actuated by the actuation device; a second piston-cylinder unit having an electric motor drive, a transmission at least one piston to supply at least one of the brake circuits with a pressure medium via a valve device; and a motor pump unit with a valve device to supply the brake circuits with a pressure medium. The brake system may also include a hydraulic travel simulator with a pressure or working chamber which is connected to the first piston-cylinder unit.

The present invention prevents occurrence of abnormal noise and swing of a vehicle in mitigating braking force of a steered wheel while reducing a steering load at the time of stationary steering to reduce a burden of a steering device and reducing stress accumulation due to stationary steering to reduce burdens of a tire, a suspension device and the steering device. The present invention includes a stop braking force control unit 202 that individually controls braking forces of steered wheels 51 and 52 and non-steered wheels 53 and 54 at the time of deceleration of the vehicle, and a pre-detection unit 203 that detects steering in a stopped state of the vehicle in advance, in which the stop braking force control unit executes, when the steering in a stopped state of the vehicle is detected in advance by the pre-detection unit, braking force mitigation control to decrease the braking forces of the steered wheels to be lower than the braking forces at the time of normal braking.

To acquire a hydraulic pressure control unit and a straddle-type vehicle brake system capable of adding an auxiliary plunger pump while suppressing extreme enlargement of the hydraulic pressure control unit. In a base body, a combination of a first plunger pump and a first accumulator and a combination of a second plunger pump and a second accumulator for a different system of a hydraulic circuit therefrom are separately provided on both sides of a reference surface including a center axis of a motor hole. A first plunger pump hole and a second plunger pump hole are separately provided on a second surface and a third surface constituting both ends of the base body in a first direction. A first accumulator hole, a second accumulator hole, and an auxiliary plunger pump hole are provided on a fourth surface constituting an end of the base body in a second direction.

A method for adjusting brake pressures at pneumatically actuated wheel brakes of a vehicle includes receiving an external braking demand. The method further includes, in response to the received external braking demand, performing, during each of a plurality of computation cycles: (i) ascertaining control signals for pressure control valves of the pneumatically actuated wheel brakes of the vehicle, (ii) continuously ascertaining a differential slip value, wherein the differential slip value is a difference between a slip of two axles of the vehicle and is determined by measuring signals supplied by speed sensors of wheels of the vehicle, (iii) evaluating the differential slip value with respect to a predefined or adjustable setpoint differential slip value, (iv) based on the evaluation of the differential slip value, adapting the ascertained control signals, and (v) releasing the adapted control signals to the pressure control valves.

A method for controlling a vehicle brake system of a heavy duty vehicle, the brake system comprising a service brake system and an electrical machine brake system. The method includes determining a total brake torque request for braking a wheel of the vehicle, obtaining a brake torque capability of the electrical machine, determining if the total brake torque request exceeds the brake torque capability of the electrical machine, and if the total brake torque request exceeds the brake torque capability of the electrical machine but is below a threshold level, applying a baseline brake torque by the service brake system, wherein the baseline brake torque is configured to compensate for a difference between total brake torque request and brake torque capability of the electrical machine, and controlling wheel slip by the electrical machine brake system.

An electronic brake system includes: a master cylinder connected to a brake pedal; a hydraulic pressure supply device including a motor that generates a rotational force and a hydraulic piston movably accommodated in a pressure chamber, and configured to generate a hydraulic pressure by a movement of the hydraulic piston; a hydraulic control unit configured to control a flow of the hydraulic pressure transferred to a wheel cylinder from the hydraulic pressure supply device; a hydraulic block in which the master cylinder, the hydraulic pressure supply device and the hydraulic control unit are integrated; and a controller configured to control the motor and the hydraulic control unit, wherein, during an anti-lock braking system (ABS) operation, the controller is configured to generate vibration in the motor by supplying the motor with an excitation current for exciting the motor to notify a driver of the ABS operation by vibration of the brake pedal.

An antilock control method for a braking system of a vehicle has at least the following steps: upon the presence of a brake request signal, outputting a brake control signal and building up a brake pressure by a braking medium at a wheel brake of a vehicle wheel, measuring a wheel speed of the vehicle wheel to be braked, and determining a wheel slip of the vehicle wheel, upon meeting a first traction criterion or a locking tendency of the vehicle wheel, activating a wheel drive unit and applying a wheel drive torque on the vehicle wheel to increase the wheel circumferential velocity and to reduce the wheel slip until a second traction criterion is met. The brake force introduced in the wheel brake is controlled as a function of the wheel slip by releasing the brake pressure upon satisfying a first traction criterion.

A braking control device includes a “master cylinder CM capable of pressure feeding brake fluid BF in conjunction with the movement of a brake operating member BP of a vehicle”, an “electrically driven fluid unit HU”, “front wheel and rear wheel cylinders CWf, CWr that are provided on the front wheel and rear wheel WHf, WHr of the vehicle and are pressurized by either one of the master cylinder CM and the fluid unit HU”, and a “controller ECU that controls the fluid unit HU”. The controller ECU determines whether or not external leakage of a brake fluid BF has occurred in the braking control device, and when the external leakage has occurred, pressurizes the front wheel cylinder CWf by the master cylinder CM, and pressurizes the rear wheel cylinder CWr by the fluid unit HU.

The present invention comprises: a piston provided in a cylinder hole; a lid member which closes an opening on the other side of the cylinder hole; and elastic members and which are provided between the piston and the lid member. The elastic members and comprise a first elastic member provided on the piston side of the cylinder hole, and a second elastic member provided on the lid member side of the cylinder hole. The second elastic member has a base portion provided in line with the first elastic member, and a protruding portion protruding from the piston side end surface of the base portion. When the piston has moved in the axial direction to the lid member side, the protruding portion touches the piston, undergoing compressive deformation, and the base portion subsequently undergoes compressive deformation.

A vehicle-electrical-apparatus, including: a service-brake-valve-device (SBVD) having an electropneumatic service-brake-device (ESBVD), which is an electronically-brake-pressure-regulated-brake-system (EBPRBS), having an ESBVD, a first-electronic-brake-control-device (EBCD), electropneumatic-modulators (EM) and pneumatic-wheel-brake actuators (PWBA); a sensor-device; the first-EBCD controls the EMs generating pneumatic brake-control-pressures (PBCP) for the PWBAs, and the ESBVD has a service-brake-actuation-member (SBAM) and an electrical-channel containing an electrical-brake-value-transmitter, actuate-able by the SBAM, and a second-EBCD couples brake-request signals into the first-EBCD depending on the AS, and, within a pneumatic-service-brake-circuit, a pneumatic-channel in which a control-piston of the SBVD is loaded with a first-actuation-force (AF) by actuating the service-brake-actuation-member based on a driver brake-request, and the control-piston controls a double-seat valve of the SBVD to generate PBCPs for the PWBAs; generating a second AF that acts on the control-piston; brake slip/driving-dynamics-regulation are in the second-EBCD, the second-EBCD receives sensor-signals, and for braking requested, generating the second AF to perform a brake-slip and/or driving-dynamics-regulation.