Continental Automotive Gmbh

Christian Baier-Welt

Theo Baukholt

Hendrik Powileit

Damiano Molfetta

In a method for applying a parking brake of a vehicle depending on the roadway conditions, at least one electromechanical braking system has a parking brake and an operational brake function. An operational brake force is produced on each wheel to slow the vehicle down to a standstill. A parking brake force is generated on at least two wheels of the vehicle. The parking brake forces have an amount that corresponds to the total of the previous parking brake forces applied to all of the wheels and subsequently the stopping of the vehicle is tesste. When the vehicle is maintained in the stop position, the amount of the parking brake force on the at least two wheels is reduced and simultaneously, the service brake forces that are reduced by a certain amount corresponding to the parking brake forces are built up at least on the other wheels.

Method and arrangement for applying a parking brake of a vehicle depending on the roadway conditions

A disk brake, in particular for a motor vehicle, is provided. The disk includes a rotatable brake disk, a brake caliper covering the brake disk, an actuator for applying an actuation force and a friction lining applicable to the brake disk by means of the actuation force, and a device for measuring the actual braking force. In order to obtain the more reliable and accurate actual braking force measurement, the device for measuring the actual braking force uses the elastic enlargement of the brake caliper in the form of a measuring parameter and comprises an element having a first end secured to the brake caliper and a second free end, wherein a gap is formed in the extension direction between the brake caliper and the element. The device for measuring the actual braking force produces a signal according to the actual measure gap width.

Disk brake provided with an improved device for measuring the normal applied force

A brake, in particular for motor vehicles, has a friction member () which can be pressed an actuator () against or released from the friction face of an element () which is to be braked. The brake is equipped with a particularly simple and reliable readjustment device () and with an emergency release device (), wherein the readjustment device has a spindle () which drives an adjustable element () which is connected thereto, and the emergency release device () has two cam disks () which are rotatable relative to one another, one () of which cam disks is rotationally fixedly connected to the spindle ().

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Ober-Ramstadt, Germany

Christian Baier-Welt