The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a brake apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a reservoir configured to store a working fluid; a master cylinder connected to the reservoir; a hydraulic circuit connected to a wheel brake; a primary brake unit configured to supply a hydraulic pressure to the wheel brake through the hydraulic circuit; and a secondary brake unit configured to supply a hydraulic pressure to the wheel brake through the hydraulic circuit, wherein the hydraulic circuit comprises: a first hydraulic circuit coupled to the reservoir, the master cylinder, and the secondary brake unit; a second hydraulic circuit coupled to the reservoir and the primary brake unit; and a third hydraulic circuit coupled to the primary brake unit, the secondary brake unit, and the wheel brake.

A brake booster includes an input element actuatable by a driver, an actuator for generating a support force, an output element to which an input or support force may be applied and via which an actuating force may be applied to a piston of a brake master cylinder, and a force transmission unit having elastic properties, situated between the input element and the actuator, and the output element, and transmitting the input and/or support forces to the output element. An air gap, which in idle mode is smaller or larger than a desired air gap, is provided between the input element and the force transmission unit. A method for operating the brake booster includes generating a support force prior to a braking intent to be anticipated or immediately after detection of a braking intent, in a time span before or immediately after detection of an actuation of the input element.

According to the embodiment of the present disclosure, it provides an inspection valve installed at a flow path connecting a reservoir to a chamber of a master cylinder, comprising: a housing at which a bore is formed and having one side at which an inlet hole is formed; a plunger provided to be movable along the bore of the housing; a seat member configured to close one side of the bore and through which an outlet hole passes; and an elastic member having one side supported by the plunger and the other side supported by the seat member, wherein the plunger is provided to block the outlet hole when a hydraulic pressure flowing in through the inlet hole is greater than an elastic force of the elastic member.

Also, according to the embodiment of the present disclosure, it provides an inspection valve installed at a bypass flow path connecting a front side of a check valve to a rear side thereof at a reservoir flow path connecting a reservoir to a master cylinder, comprising: a housing at which a bore is formed and having one side at which an inlet hole communicating with the master cylinder is formed; a plunger provided to be movable along the bore of the housing; a seat member configured to close one side of the bore and through which an outlet hole communicating with the reservoir passes; and an elastic member having one side supported by the plunger and the other side supported by the seat member, wherein the check valve is provided at the reservoir flow path and enables fluid to flow in a direction from the reservoir to the master cylinder, and the plunger is provided to block the outlet hole when a hydraulic pressure flowing in through the inlet hole is greater than an elastic force of the elastic member.

A control apparatus/method for operating an electromechanical brake booster of a vehicle braking system, including: applying control to an electromechanical brake booster motor in consideration at least of a braking definition signal regarding a braking input of a driver and/or automatic speed control system of the vehicle (ACC); specifying, in consideration at least of the braking definition signal, a target motor force of the electromechanical brake booster motor or a target brake application force of the electromechanical brake booster into a brake master cylinder, downstream from the electromechanical brake booster, of the braking system; and applying control to the electromechanical brake booster motor in consideration of a force difference between the specified target motor force and an estimated/measured actual motor force of the motor, or between the specified target brake application force and an estimated/measured actual brake application force of the electromechanical brake booster into the downstream brake master cylinder.

A braking apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The present disclosure in at least one embodiment provides a braking apparatus for a vehicle, including a master cylinder configured to supply hydraulic pressure to a wheel brake by a depression of a brake pedal, a first flow path and a second flow path configured to supply the hydraulic pressure by interconnecting the master cylinder and the wheel brake, a pump unit configured to discharge the hydraulic pressure to the first flow path and the second flow path by a drive of a motor, and a pulsation dampener having one end including a damper cap and an opposite end including a support ring and configured to interconnect the first flow path and the second flow path and to mitigate a difference in hydraulic pressure between the first flow path and the second flow path.

A pedal-travel simulator of a hydraulic power vehicle brake system is connected to a brake-fluid reservoir by way of a groove between two piston seals of a power brake-pressure generator. Any air bubbles in the brake fluid get out of the pedal-travel simulator into the brake-fluid reservoir, and the piston seals are lubricated with the brake fluid.

The present disclosure comprises a reservoir cutoff valve provided on a pipe and configured to be opened in a non-energization state; a simulator cutoff valve provided on a pipe and configured to be closed in a non-energization state; an operation determination circuit configured to determine whether the brake operation member is in an operation execution state in which the brake operation member is being operated is; and a current control circuit that, when the operation determination circuit determines that the brake operation member is not in an operation execution state, supplies a first current to the reservoir cutoff valve, and when the operation determination circuit determines that the brake operation member is in an operation execution state, supplies a second current greater than the first current to the reservoir cutoff valve.

A method for operating a hydraulic brake system of a motor vehicle having a brake booster and a hydraulic brake boost wherein a brake pressure is detected and an underpressure, prevailing in an underpressure chamber of the brake booster is estimated on the basis of the detected brake pressure. The hydraulic brake boost controlled based on the estimated underpressure, with the estimated underpressure taking into account an actuation of the hydraulic brake boost.

A brake control device includes an electric pump, a pressure adjustment valve that adjusts a hydraulic pressure of a brake fluid discharged by the electric pump to an adjustment hydraulic pressure and supplies the brake fluid in a rear wheel cylinder, and a master unit provided with a servo chamber into which brake fluid at the adjustment hydraulic pressure is supplied and in which the adjustment hydraulic pressure is converted into a forward force of a master piston, and a master chamber fluidically separated from the servo chamber by the master piston and connected to the front wheel cylinder and in which a rearward force converted from the hydraulic pressure in the front wheel cylinder and is applied to the master piston. Also included is an input unit provided with an input chamber and a simulator, and a controller configured to control the electric pump and the pressure adjustment valve.

A method for operating a vehicle brake system including a brake booster and an electronic traction control device, which is used as a fallback level in a malfunction of the brake booster. The position of an accelerator pedal is ascertained when a malfunction of the brake booster is detected, and under the precondition that the accelerator pedal is released, a predefined initial pressure is built up in a pressure chamber of a master brake cylinder of the vehicle brake system with the aid of the traction control device so that a deceleration of the vehicle is induced. A control unit which is designed to carry out the method, and a vehicle having a vehicle brake system and a control unit, are also described.