Electronically controllable brake actuating system

US6942304B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

• Ronald Bayer · Refrath, DE
• Bernhard Schmittner · Aschaffenburg, DE
• Christian Albrich von Albrichsfeld · Darmstadt, DE
• Ulrich Neumann · Roßdorf, DE
• Andreas Klein · Bonn, DE
• Johann Jungbecker · Badenheim, DE
• Robert Mutschler · Mundelsheim, DE
• Stefan Fritz · Langen (Hessen), DE
• Manfred Rüffer · Pocking, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 4, 1999
• Grant date: Sep 13, 2005
• Expiry date: Feb 4, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T8/4086
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention discloses an electronically controllable brake actuating system for automotive vehicles, including an unpressurized pressure fluid supply reservoir, a pressure source actuatable by an electronic control unit, the pressure of which can be applied to wheel brakes of the vehicle, further including a device for detecting the driver's wish for deceleration as well as valve assemblies inserted upstream of the wheel brakes and connecting the wheel brakes alternatively to the pressure source or the pressure fluid supply reservoir. In order to increase the operational or functional reliability of a system of this type, the present invention discloses the provision of means for detecting gases or air disposed in the system.