Device for supplying pressure to an actuation unit of a motor vehicle brake system and method for controlling said device

US8376475B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

• Manfred Rüffer · Pocking, DE
• Georg Fachinger · Limburg, DE
• Holger Wahl · Wallrabenstein, DE
• Albrich von Albrichsfeld · Darmstadt, DE
• Uwe Karl · Wiesbaden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 17, 2010
• Grant date: Feb 19, 2013
• Expiry date: Apr 12, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T2270/414
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for supplying pressure to an actuation unit of a vehicle brake system, in particular to a vehicle brake system of the ‘brake-by-wire’ type, including a pneumatic motor-and-pump assembly with a pump and a motor driving the pump, wherein the motor-and-pump assembly is controlled by an electronic control unit depending on a pressure level or pressure difference in a pneumatic brake booster of the actuation unit, with the pressure level in a chamber or a difference in pressure between two chambers of the brake booster being detected by a sensor. In order to maintain the availability of the service brake function as high as possible and to obtain a maximum possible redundancy, the control unit, used to control the motor-and-pump assembly includes a logic module and a power module, which are arranged separately of each other.