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Automotive vehicle brake system

US4932727A · kind A · utility

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33Claims
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Filing dateApr 12, 1989
Grant dateJun 12, 1990
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Expiry dateApr 12, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB60T13/565
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

In an anti-lock automotive vehicle brake system comprising a vacuum brake power booster, a considerable reduction of manufacturing and assembling costs is obtained while the system's reliability in operation is simultaneously augmented by the incorporation into this brake system of a second movable wall arranged within the vacuum brake power booster to which a controllable pressure differential may be applied. The wall isolates two pneumatic working chambers and, in the case of slip control, is movable in a direction opposite to the actuating direction of the master brake cylinder by two compensating cylinders which are connected with the master brake cylinder pressure chambers. A hydraulic chamber which is normally in communication with an unpressurized pressure-fluid supply reservoir is sealed from the reservoir by a retention valve during slip control to hydraulically prevent brake petal induced pressure from being applied to the master cylinder.

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