Vehicle brake system having an electronically controlled booster

US5772290A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Lucas Industries public limited company · GB

Inventors

• Helmut Heibel · Moschheim, DE
• Hans-Werner Renn · Andernach, DE
• Erwin Michels · Kail, DE
• Jens-Peter Kohrt · Koblenz, DE
• Werner Dieringer · Vallendar, DE
• Kurt Mohr · Emmelshausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 5, 1996
• Grant date: Jun 30, 1998
• Expiry date: Jan 5, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T8/3275
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for controlling the brake pressure in a vehicle brake system equipped with an electronically adjustable brake booster (10), comprising an actuator (22) which transmits the actuating movement of the brake pedal to a master brake cylinder and has assigned a path limiting element (80) which limits the axial actuating movement of the actuator (22) in that it is received between abutments (90, 92), the apparatus being characterized in that a switch is actuated by the path limiting element (80) together with one of the abutments (90), said switch supplying a signal to the brake booster when the path limiting element (80) abuts the one abutment (90).