Robert Boschgmbh

Otmar Bussmann

Matthias Kistner

Bertram Foitzik

Urs Bauer

Robert Kaster

Frank Kaestner

Tim-Philipp Jesse

Rolf Ellwein

Helmut Suelzle

Andreas Grimm

Peter Ziegler

Thomas Bruex

Carsten Thierer

Herbert Vollert

Dirk Foerch

Jens Wagner

Klaus Heyer

Dirk Mahnkopf

Simon Hansmann

Rolf-Hermann Mergenthaler

Ralf Kinder

Andreas Schlichenmaier

Christian Meister

Rafael Gonzalez Romero

Stefan Seitz

Christian Michael Praetorius

Kevin Wodrich

Jose-Maria Rodelgo Lucas

Thomas Eichhorn

Jens Schaetzle

Sabrina Dittrich

Zied Terchella

Erwin Reinke

In order to detect air in a brake master cylinder within a hydraulic power brake system, a brake master cylinder pressure on actuation of the brake master cylinder is compared with a comparison pressure which prevails in the brake master cylinder when it is air-free. For bleeding, brake fluid is conveyed with a power brake pressure generator through the in this case non-actuated brake master cylinder into a pressureless brake fluid reservoir, where air escapes from the brake fluid.

Detecting air in a brake master cylinder and bleeding the brake master cylinder of a hydraulic power brake system

For testing the functional capability of a hydraulic power vehicle braking system, a power brake pressure generator is switched on. The power brake pressure generator displaces brake fluid through the non-actuated master brake cylinder into a brake fluid reservoir, which is why no brake pressure is built up. A brake pressure build-up allows a 'hidden defect' to be inferred, which has no impact during normal operation and is therefore not noticed.

Method for testing the functional capability of a hydraulic vehicle braking system

A method for determining an electrical resistance of an electrical supply lead of an electrical system. The system is connected to a first and a second electrically conductive supply lead, which are electrically conductively connected on the current-source side. The system is configured to electrically connect an electrical load of the system selectably to the first or to the second supply lead. The method includes: configuring an electrical connection between the first supply lead and the load; configuring an electrical interruption between the second supply lead and electrical loads of the system; impressing a current in the first supply lead; determining a first voltage at the input of the first supply lead; determining a second voltage at the input of the second supply lead; determining a first resistance value of the first supply lead using the first and the second voltage and the impressed current.

Method for determining the electrical resistance of an electric supply line

To prevent the loss of any brake fluid from a hydraulic vehicle braking system after a detected leakage, a testing or a retesting of a leak tightness of the vehicle braking system is carried out only after release, for example, after a repair of the vehicle braking system.

Method for testing the leak tightness of a hydraulic vehicle braking system

A master brake cylinder for a brake system of a vehicle having a master brake cylinder housing, a primary piston component, a secondary piston component, a primary spring device which is preloaded with a first preload force between the primary piston component and the secondary piston component, and a secondary spring device, which is preloaded with a second preload force between the secondary piston component and a wall component (of the master brake cylinder housing, with the second preload force of the secondary spring device being greater than the first preload force of the primary spring device. A brake device for a vehicle, a brake system for a vehicle, and a production method for a mater brake cylinder for a brake system of a vehicle are also described.

Master brake cylinder for a brake system of a vehicle, brake device and brake system having such a master brake cylinder, and method for producing a master brake cylinder

A method is described for operating an electrical system, in particular, of a motor vehicle, which includes at least one electrical consumer, at least one energy source for electrical energy, and at least one control unit, the consumer being test activated by the control unit for the purpose of initializing a start of the system and a voltage level of an electrical voltage in the system being monitored and compared to a predefinable minimum value, and the activation being interrupted if the voltage level falls below the minimum value, and the consumer being subsequently test reactivated. It is provided that the number of the interruptions is counted and the consumer is deactivated at least for a predefinable period of time upon reaching a predefinable maximum number.

Method, control unit, and electrical network

A method for operating a regenerative braking system of a vehicle by activating at least one motor employable in generator mode taking into consideration a first information with regard to a requested setpoint total braking torque and a second information with regard to an available generator braking torque which is maximally executable by the at least one motor employable in generator mode, if the setpoint total braking torque exceeds a threshold value and/or a piece of warning information regarding a transition to a backup level that is potentially imminent or has occurred of the regenerative braking system, even if the setpoint total braking torque is less than or equal to the maximally executable available generator braking torque, sufficient brake fluid is transferred via at least one hydraulic actuator to a wheel brake cylinder of the regenerative braking system that an air gap of the particular wheel brake cylinder is closed.

Method for operating a regenerative braking system of a vehicle and control unit for a regenerative braking system of a vehicle

A control device for at least one electric parking brake of a vehicle brake system of a vehicle having a control instrument, to determine a setpoint variable regarding a setpoint braking torque to be generated with the parking brake and to output a control signal, the control instrument being configured to ascertain/detect, based on at least one provided signal, whether a brake booster is in at least one functionally limited or incapacitated state, and, if indicated, to determine the setpoint variable by considering at least one defined parameter regarding a requested total braking torque and to control the electric parking brake so that a corresponding actual braking torque is exertable with the parking brake. Also described is an electric parking brake for a vehicle brake system and to a vehicle brake system, and a method for operating a vehicle brake system having a brake booster and an electric parking brake.

Control device for at least one electric parking brake of a brake system of a vehicle and method for operating a brake system of a vehicle having a brake booster and an electric parking brake

A control apparatus for hydraulic components of a braking system of a vehicle, having a control application device that is designed to establish by application of control to the hydraulic components, in consideration of the braking request, at least one brake pressure in at least one wheel brake cylinder in such a way that the braking request is satisfiable; and to execute an antilock braking function at the at least one wheel brake cylinder, the control application device additionally being designed to ascertain whether at least one furnished actual value with regard to a displacement travel (s) of a brake actuation element of the vehicle out of its initial position, and/or with regard to a simulator volume shifted out of a brake master cylinder of the vehicle into a linked simulator, lies within at least one predefined extreme value range.

Control apparatus for hydraulic components of a braking system of a vehicle, and method for executing an antilock braking function at at least one wheel brake cylinder of a vehicle

A hydraulic power unit for a braking system of a vehicle, including a first sub-brake circuit or brake circuit and a second sub-brake circuit or brake circuit, a first supply line branching into a first line section having a first circuit separating valve situated therein, and a second line section having a first electrically controllable reservoir separating valve and/or first check valve situated therein, and a second supply line branching into a third line section having a second circuit separating valve situated therein and a fourth line section having a second electrically controllable reservoir separating valve and/or second check valve situated therein.

Hydraulic power unit and braking system for a vehicle

A power brake system having electronic slip regulation, and a method for controlling a power brake system having electronic slip regulation. A return line is equipped with a pressure medium storage unit for storing pressure medium with a pressure that is greater than an ambient atmospheric pressure, and is equipped with a blocking device that is controllable and that is situated between the pressure medium storage device and the reservoir. In addition, there is a pressure medium connection between the pressure medium storage unit and the plunger working space. A controlling of a power brake system takes place using the blocking device in such a way that the return line is blocked relative to the reservoir as soon as a plunger piston, driven by a drive unit, has traveled a definable path in the forward direction.

Power brake system having electronic slip regulation, and method for controlling a power brake system having electronic slip regulation

A braking system for a vehicle includes: a brake input element for an actuation to input a brake pressure signal by a driver; a brake master cylinder coupled to the brake input element and supplied with hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic fluid reservoir fluidically connected to the brake master cylinder; and a first brake circuit. The first brake circuit has: a switchover valve with controllable through flow rate for the hydraulic fluid; a pressure regulating valve with controllable through flow rate for the hydraulic fluid; a hydraulic pump for optionally building up an elevated hydraulic fluid pressure in the first brake circuit; at least one first wheel brake cylinder exerting a braking torque on a first vehicle wheel coupled to the wheel brake cylinder; and a first fluid line from the hydraulic fluid reservoir being fluidically connected to the pressure regulating valve and to the hydraulic pump.

Braking system for a vehicle and method for operating the braking system

An electromechanical braking device for a braking system including a master brake cylinder including an electric motor, an adjustable output rod, and a gear, the electric motor being connected to the output rod at least via the gear so that a power transmission path is present via which a motor output is at least partially transmittable to the output rod so that the output rod is adjustable, the electromechanical braking device including at least one elastic component situated within the power transmission path which is configured so that the at least one elastic component is not compressible below a control point of the electromechanical braking device, but during the occurrence of pressure peaks in the master brake cylinder which are above the control point of the electromechanical braking device, the at least one elastic component is compressible. Also described is a braking system for a vehicle.

Electromechanical braking device for a braking system and braking system for a vehicle

A brake control device is provided for a vehicle having an activation device, with the aid of which, at least under consideration of at least one brake demand signal provided by an on-board sensor and/or control device, at least one first control signal may be output to at least one electric drive motor of the vehicle, with which the at least one electric drive motor is controllable into a motor mode, in which a generator braking torque which is unequal to zero may be exerted on at least one wheel of the vehicle by the at least one electric drive motor, the at least one electric drive motor being controllable with the aid of the at least one first control signal into at least one overload operating mode as the motor mode, in which the generator braking torque which is unequal to zero may be exerted on the at least one wheel. A method is also provided for operating at least one electric drive motor for a vehicle.

Brake control device for a vehicle and method for operating at least one electric drive motor for a vehicle

A control system for an electric motor usable as a generator of a vehicle includes: a first control device and a second control device each configured to define, in consideration of at least one furnished first specification signal with regard to a driver-requested or autonomously requested braking input, at least one target braking torque variable with regard to at least one generator braking torque to be exerted by way of the at least one electric motor on at least one wheel of the vehicle and/or on at least one axle of the vehicle, and to output to the at least one electric motor, and/or to at least one electronic control system of the at least one electric motor, at least one output signal corresponding to the at least one target braking torque variable.

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Otmar Bussmann