Continental Teves, Ag and Company Ohg

Continental Teves Ag &co. Ohg

Klaus Dieter Pagel

Christof Maron

Thorsten Ullrich

Heinz-Anton Schneider

Jürgen Woywod

Eduard Wiens

Peter Leska

Christian Strehle

Andreas Strecker

Stefan Feick

Klaus Berger

Christian Kebbel

A method for hydraulically boosting a vehicle electric parking brake having a hydraulic service brake and an electric parking brake. Application forces electically generated by the parking brake function is superimposed on the boosting brake force generated by a hydraulic boosting brake pressure provided by the service brake to the brake actuator. When the parking brake is actuated to generate a predetermined application force, the force generated by the brake actuator is detected as the actual value, if an actual value of the measured value is smaller than a first target value a boosting brake pressure value is applied to the brake actuator, and by means of the parking brake function an adjustment function for the tension of the brake actuator to which the hydraulic boosting brake pressure is applied is carried out to achieve the predetermined application force.

Method for hydraulically boosting an electric parking brake of a vehicle

In order to impart a pleasant brake pedal feeling to the operator in the transition from a 'conventional mode' to a 'brake-by-wire' mode, it is disclosed that the travel (s) covered upon application of the brake pedal is determined and subsequently reduced by the operator, and in that upon reduction of the actuating travel (s) by a predetermined value (&#x394;s) or in the event of a detected vehicle movement or a positive result of a monitoring function of the connecting and disconnecting device running in the background, the connecting and disconnecting device is activated and the brake booster is actuated by the electronic control unit.

Method of operating a motor vehicle brake system

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Darmstadt, Germany

Klaus Dieter Pagel