A brake system for a forklift truck includes a double brake mechanism, having a mechanical brake mechanism further including a foot brake pedestal, a foot pedal, a brake pump having a push rod, a rotation shaft connected to the foot brake pedestal, with the foot pedal being connected to the rotation shaft by a link, a connecting seat on the rotation shaft, wherein the connecting seat is connected to an end of the push rod of the brake pump, a compression spring and a spring sleeve are slidably mounted relative to the rotation shaft and configured to compress the compression spring upon rotation of the rotation shaft, and having an electrical brake mechanism further including a micro switch that receives a signal from a foot pedal movement sensor, wherein the micro switch sends a switch signal to a controller that controls a drive motor of the forklift truck.

A brake device includes: a battery connected to a power supply line; a fluid pressure unit driven by power from the supply line and applies fluid pressure to a brake; an alternator that receives power from a vehicle engine and generates power at a voltage higher than a charged voltage of the battery; a capacitor that stores the power generated by the alternator; and a DC/DC converter that converts the voltage of the capacitor to a predetermined value and supplies the converted voltage to the supply line. When the vehicle will potentially collide with a forward obstacle, an output of the DC/DC converter is set at a target higher than an output voltage in a normal state before brake actuation, or if output of the DC/DC converter cannot be set at the target voltage, the alternator is driven to connect a generation voltage of the alternator to the supply line.

A method for operating an electromechanical vehicle brake system is provided. The method includes determining that an activation condition has been met, selecting a pre-charge pressure based at least in part on the activation condition, building up at least an initial portion of the pre-charge pressure in the brake system, and applying at least the initial portion of the pre-charge pressure to at least one wheel brake.

A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, adjusting the feel of a brake pedal based on a comparison between a predetermined level of resistance to an input braking force and a measured input braking force.

The invention relates to a method, wherein an electrically operated actuator of a vehicle brake system is controlled in accordance with a braking demand of a vehicle control system, such as occurs in electronic stability control. According to the invention, a supply voltage of the vehicle electrical system applied to the electrically operated actuator is increased if at least one specified condition is met. Thus, the pressure build-up by a hydraulic pump can e.g. be accelerated during emergency braking.

A method for operating an electromechanical vehicle brake system is provided. The method comprises determining that an activation condition has been met, building an initial portion of the pre-charge pressure in the brake system, applying the initial portion of the pre-charge pressure to at least one wheel brake, building a secondary portion of the pre-charge pressure in the brake system, and adjusting the secondary portion of the pre-charge pressure to an expected braking pressure. Adjusting the secondary portion of the pre-charge pressure may include reducing the secondary portion of the pre-charge pressure.

A method is provided for operating an electromechanical vehicle brake system having an ESP module and at least two brake circuits, each brake circuit comprising high and low pressure switching valves, a low pressure storage device, and two wheel brakes. The method comprises, in advance of a possible breaking procedure and based on a trigger factor, filling the low pressure storage device with an amount of brake fluid at a first pre-pressure. Subsequently, an ESP pump is used to fill the vehicle brake system, including the low pressure storage device, with an adjustable amount of final pre-pressure. All valves are closed when the final pre-pressure is achieved. The method further comprises, during a braking procedure, opening respective inlet valves of the wheel brakes and supplying at least a part of the final pre-pressure to at least one wheel brake of the vehicle brake system.

A brake control device includes a deciding unit for deciding a requested deceleration that is requested by the driver, based on the brake pedal operation amount that is acquired, and a braking processing unit for deciding a braking amount of braking to be executed by a brake device, based on the requested deceleration that is decided, and deciding to execute reducing control in which a deceleration is reduced as compared to the requested deceleration immediately before stopping a vehicle. The braking processing unit is configured to execute increasing control in which a deceleration is increased as compared to the requested deceleration before executing the reducing control, and decides whether to execute the increasing control based on the detection result of the in-vehicle sensor.

The braking control device includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a vehicle is in a stopped state; a setting unit configured to set a vehicle stop maintenance braking force necessary for maintaining the stopped state of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to execute, when the determination unit determines that the vehicle is in the stopped state and an actual braking force applied in the stopped state of the vehicle is greater than the vehicle stop maintenance braking force set by the setting unit, vehicle stop maintenance control for decreasing the actual braking force toward the vehicle stop maintenance braking force regardless of a required braking force required by at least one of a driver of the vehicle and another device.

A system for controlling a braking system of a vehicle includes monitoring a manually applied braking value based on a displacement of a brake pedal mechanically coupled to brake calipers; determining that an additional braking value is needed to provide a needed total braking value; in response to determining that the additional braking value is needed, applying a controller braking value as the additional braking value by actuating an actuator to physically move the brake pedal away from a foot of a driver; decaying the manually applied braking value while the controller braking value is applied; detecting, using vehicle sensors coupled to a controller, that application of the total needed braking value results in an updated vehicle trajectory that satisfies predetermined braking threshold criteria; and incrementally decreasing the controller braking value and incrementally increasing the manually applied braking value such that the brake pedal incrementally returns to the driver's foot.