Nissan Motor Company Limited

Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Masayuki Yoshimoto

Masami Abe

Hideaki Ishii

Kazumoto Sano

Hiroshi Shigeta

Ryoichi Yagi

Ryozo Ikeuchi

Naoki Shirakawa

Ryo Sekiya

In an electric motor-driven booster, a sharp change of reaction force to an operation of a brake pedal is reduced to improve the brake pedal operation feeling. Operation of the brake pedal causes an input rod () and an input piston () to advance, and an electric motor () is driven according to the movement of the input piston to propel a primary piston () through a ball-screw mechanism, thereby generating a desired brake hydraulic pressure in a master cylinder. At this time, the input piston receives the hydraulic pressure in the master cylinder to feed back a part of reaction force during braking to the brake pedal. When the brake pedal is further depressed after the output of the electric motor has reached a maximum output and the primary pistonhas stopped, a lock nut abuts against a movable spring retainer and compresses a reaction force spring.

Electric motor-driven booster

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Kanagawa, Japan

Masayuki Yoshimoto