Volvo Car Corporation

Jiangliu Su

Yongxing Jin

A brake pedal simulator including a simulator cylinder; a simulator piston within the simulator cylinder, a simulation chamber being defined between the simulator piston and a first end of the simulator cylinder; and an elastically deformable component and an adjusting component, the elastically deformable component being arranged between the simulator piston and the adjusting component and placed in a pre-deformed state by them, and the adjusting component being movable to change the amount of elastic deformation of the elastically deformable component so that it can assume a plurality of pre-deformed states and maintain the elastically deformable component in each of the plurality of pre-deformed states. A brake pedal feel selection module includes the brake pedal simulator and a vehicle brake system includes the brake pedal feel selection module.

Brake pedal simulator, brake pedal feel selection module and vehicle braking system

A method and a system for monitoring wear of a braking frictional pad of a vehicle including a hydraulic brake device acting on a wheel thereof, the hydraulic brake device having a brake disc rotatable with the wheel and a braking frictional pad configured to be non-rotatable relative to the wheel and be linearly movable parallel to a rotational axis of the wheel, the system including: a record module configured to record a time required by the hydraulic brake device for establishing a brake hydraulic pressure when the vehicle is parked; and an electrical control unit in data communication with the record module and configured to compare the time required for establishing the brake hydraulic pressure with a time required by the same hydraulic brake device for establishing the brake hydraulic pressure and recorded when the braking frictional pad is brand new, so as to determine the wear state of the braking frictional pad.

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Shanghai, China

Jiangliu Su