Hydraulic brake system with skid control

US5803556A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• ITT Automotive Europe GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Weis · Cochem, DE
• Klaus-Diether Fischer · Lorsch, DE
• Peter Volz · Darmstadt, DE
• Dalibor Zaviska · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Paul Linhoff · Eppstein, DE
• Ralf Kaiser · Erbenheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 20, 1996
• Grant date: Sep 8, 1998
• Expiry date: Nov 20, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T137/88062
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A hydraulic brake system with skid control is provided with digitally switchable inlet and outlet valves. An inlet valve includes a variable flow area valve control that is actuated as a function of differential pressures in order to reduce the valve noise.