Continental Teves, Ag and Company Ohg

Ingolf Buchholz

Thorsten Neu

Alexander Schubert

Harald König

Stephan Krebs

Michael Vogt

Thomas Rössler

A pneumatic brake booster for motor vehicles, comprises a booster housing, the interior of which is separated into a working chamber and a low-pressure chamber by an axially movable wall that can be supplied with a pneumatic differential pressure; a control housing; and a control valve which controls a differential pressure between the working chamber and the low-pressure chamber. The control valve controls an airflow between the working chamber and the low-pressure chamber or a surrounding atmosphere. The control valve has a plate valve and a valve piston, a seal region of which can be sealingly placed on the plate valve and which can be moved in a stroke direction R. A fine and low-noise metering of the brake force is achieved by providing a throttle point between the valve piston and the plate valve for throttling the airflow dependent on the stroke.

Pneumatic brake booster

A brake actuating unit for actuating a motor vehicle braking system of the 'brake-by-wire' type having a brake booster. In order to provide a brake actuating unit for actuating a motor vehicle braking system of the 'brake-by-wire' type, which on the one hand fulfills the statutory requirements care and which on the other hand is inexpensive to produce, it is proposed according to aspects of the invention, that the brake booster be provided as a travel-controlled brake booster, so that when not in the &#x201c;brake-by-wire&#x201d; operating mode the brake pedal is decoupled from feedback forces of the brake actuating unit, and the return force is simulated by the pedal travel simulator even when not in the &#x201c;brake-by-wire&#x201d; operating mode.

Brake actuating unit for actuating a motor vehicle braking system of the 'brake-by-wire' type, and method for operating a motor vehicle braking system by means of such a brake actuating unit

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Butzbach/Griedel, Germany

Ingolf Buchholz