Lucas Industries Public Limited Company

Robert Boschgmbh

Dieter Seitz

Volker Braschel

Jochen Schafer

A method of controlling the brake pressure in an anti-lock brake system of a dual-track vehicle wherein pressure raising pulse trains are applied to the brakes of the rear wheels of the vehicle provides for modified 'select-low' control of a kind with which the brake of the one wheel which first is instable on the rear axle is fed with a pressure raising pulse train having a smaller mark-to-space ratio or pulse duty factor than the pressure raising pulse train applied to the brake of the other, the stable wheel of the rear axle.

Method for controlling the brake pressure in an anti-lock brake system

A method of controlling the brake pressure in an anti-lock vehicle brake system provides for short distances to stop to be reached even with greatly differing mass moments of inertia by calculating the pressure reduction period of a control cycle currently under way as the product of a first factor and a second factor. The first factor depends on the pressure reduction period in the preceding control cycle, and the second factor depends on the maximum re-acceleration of the wheel in the preceding control cycle.

Method of controlling the brake pressure in an anti-lock vehicle brake

Automatic anti-skid brake control system

In a method of controlling the brake pressure in the rear wheel brakes of a double-track vehicle, wherein the rotational speeds at least of the rear wheels are measured and the brake pressure is lowered, kept constant, or raised, depending on the unstable or stable states arising at the individual rear wheels, the pressure in the brake of a stable rear wheel being approximated at least temporarily to the pressure in the brake of an unstable rear wheel, it is provided that, upon initiating a pressure decrease in the brake of an unstable rear wheel, the pressure in the brake of the stable rear wheel is kept constant for a predetermined period of time (.DELTA.t) and then decreased until the pressure in the brake of the unstable wheel is either kept constant or increased. This guarantees shorter stopping distances and at the same time provides a smaller difference in the braking torques at the rear axle, at good stability of the motor vehicle.

Method of controlling the brake pressure in the rear wheel brakes of a

For measuring the rotational speed of a wheel in an antilocking protected vehicle brake system a rotational speed sensor is provided in which in accordance with the rotational speed of the wheel signals are electromagnetically induced which have an amplitude and frequency which increase regularly with the rotational speed. When due to error sources the amplitude of the induced signal does not increase with the frequency of the signal a rotational speed measured value is determined by means of the measured amplitude, i.e. not on the basis of the measured frequency. To avoid erroneous measuring signals it may likewise be provided that when the amplitude of the signal does not increase with its frequency the last measured value of the frequency of the induced signal at which the amplitude still increased with the frequency is used to determine the speed of rotation.

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Dieter Seitz