Brake system for automotive vehicles with pneumatic brake power booster

US5961189A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

• Harald Lutteke · Rosbach, DE
• Peter Bohm · Friedrichsdorf, DE
• Peter Drott · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Hans-Jörg Feigel · Rosbach, DE
• Manfred Kahrs · Wiesbaden, DE
• Peter Rieth · Eltville am Rhein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 11, 1996
• Grant date: Oct 5, 1999
• Expiry date: Nov 11, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S303/03
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A brake system for automotive vehicles has a pneumatic brake power booster with two chambers one of the chambers being adapted to be acted upon by a low pressure and the other one by a higher pressure, and at least one of the chambers being adapted to be connected to a pneumatic pump. A device is provided to activate and deactivate the pump in response to the pressure that prevails in the chamber of the brake power booster associated with the pump.