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Anti-locking brake control system
Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
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Filing: 1987-03-25
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Granted: 1990-05-29
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Expires: 2007-03-25
Abstract
Abstract An anti-locking brake system is described in which pressure drops produced in the event of rapidly succeeding wheel retardations and wheel accelerations are restrained. This is achieved by a summing circuit having a sum to which a numerical value is added; the sum is reduced according to a given function. The sum value present in each case is a measure of how the pressure reduction is to be restrained, for example, by raising thresholds.
Inventors
- 👤 Volker Braschel
- 👤 Dieter Seitz
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 19:09
CPC Classifications
B; B60; B60T; B60T8/00; B60T8/32; B60T8/34; B60T8/50; B60T8/5006; B60T8/17; B60T8/173; B60T8/58; B60T2210/00; B60T2210/10; B60T2210/14
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 14
Claim 1
Independent Claim
144 words
An anti-locking brake control system of the type comprising wheel velocity pickups, an evaluation circuit, and brake pressure control valves, said pickups providing signals to said evaluation circuit which determines therefrom the wheel retardation, wheel slippage, and wheel acceleration, said evaluation circuit providing signals to the brake pressure control valves to relieve pressure when an instability threshold based on at least one of wheel retardation and wheel slippage is reached, said evaluation circuit comprising a summing circuit which provides a sum indicative of said instability threshold at which braking pressure is relieved, means for reducing the sum in accordance with a given function, means for increasing said sum by a numerical value whenever a wheel acceleration of a given magnitude occurs after an instability threshold is reached, the instability threshold at any time being determined by the magnitude of the sum at that time.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
144 words
An anti-locking brake control system of the type comprising wheel velocity pickups, an evaluation circuit, and brake pressure control valves, said pickups providing signals to said evaluation circuit which determines therefrom the wheel retardation, wheel slippage, and wheel acceleration, said evaluation circuit providing signals to the brake pressure control valves to relieve pressure when an instability threshold based on at least one of wheel retardation and wheel slippage is reached, said evaluation circuit comprising a summing circuit which provides a sum indicative of said instability threshold at which braking pressure is relieved, means for reducing the sum in accordance with a given function, means for increasing said sum by a numerical value whenever a wheel acceleration of a given magnitude occurs after an instability threshold is reached, the instability threshold at any time being determined by the magnitude of the sum at that time.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
34 words
The anti-locking brake control system according to claim 1 wherein the summing circuit is a down counter whose count is increased by said numerical values and which counts down in accordance with said function.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
15 words
The anti-locking brake control system according to claim 1 wherein said numerical values are constant.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
14 words
Anti-locking brake control system according to claim 1 wherein said numerical values are variable.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
24 words
Anti-locking brake control system as in claim 4 wherein said evaluation circuit determines the vehicle deceleration, said numerical value depending on said vehicle deceleration.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
14 words
Anti-locking brake control system according to claim 1 wherein said sum is reduced linearly.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
21 words
Anti-locking brake control system according to claim 6, wherein in given situations the linear reduction is interrupted by steady holding phases.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
27 words
Anti-locking brake control system as in claim 7 wherein the linear reduction is interrupted by steady holding pulses, when a plurality of wheels reach a given slippage.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
21 words
Anti-locking brake control system according to claim 1 wherein said sum value is increased by accelerations of a plurality of wheels.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
33 words
Anti-locking brake control system as in claim 1 wherein said summing circuit determines the sum indicative of an instability threshold based upon a weighted signal of the wheel retardation and the wheel slippage.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
30 words
Anti-locking brake control system as in claim 1 wherein said summing circuit determines the sum indicative of an instability threshold based upon either the wheel retardation or the wheel slippage.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
67 words
Anti-locking brake control system as in claim 1 wherein the evaluation circuit comprises a retardation threshold circuit which determines the amount of wheel retardation which will result in the brake pressure being relieved, and a slippage threshold circuit which determines the amount of wheel slippage which will result in the brake pressure being relieved, the threshold being determined depending upon the sum provided by the summing circuit.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
36 words
Anti-locking brake control system as in claim 12 wherein the evaluation circuit further comprises a comparator which receives signals corresponding to the wheel velocity and vehicle velocity, said comparator being connected to said slippage threshold circuit.
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