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Fluid reservoir for a motor vehicle hydraulic brake system

US8813560B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

Hans-Jürgen Neumann · Sankt Wendel, DE
Peter Tandler · Rockenhausen, DE
Swen Ottmann · Frankfurt, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 28, 2011
Grant date	Aug 26, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 9, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60T17/225
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A motor vehicle hydraulic brake system fluid reservoir for use with an electronic control unit. The hydraulic brake system fluid reservoir has a housing including a reservoir interior space having at least one fluid chamber, and a device for monitoring a reservoir filling level including a switch unit, which with a contact carrier projects into a guide sleeve, which extends into a separate chamber of the reservoir interior space. A sensor element or switch element is arranged on the contact carrier and is operable by a pickup carried on the guide sleeve at a switching point, at which the switch unit generates a signal for the electronic control unit. The separate chamber is connected to the fluid chamber by way of a fluid connection. Valve means are also provided, which serves to control the fluid flow between the separate chamber and the fluid chamber.

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