Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Advics Co., Ltd.

Other

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Seiichi Kojima

Takayuki Yamamoto

Hiroaki Aizawa

Naoki Sawada

Kenji Tozu

Akitaka Nishio

Takayuki Itoh

Hiromu Kuromitsu

Norio Yamazaki

Kiyohito Takeuchi

Tatsuya Yano

Yoshiyuki Yasui

Michiharu Nishii

Akihito Kusano

Masanobu Fukami

Tadashi Terazawa

Satoru Niwa

Hiroshi Toda

Jun Mihara

Hidenobu Kajita

Hirohisa Tanaka

Yoshiki Noda

Yoshiharu Nishizawa

This apparatus is applied to a vehicle brake apparatus provided with a hydraulic booster operated by utilizing an accumulator hydraulic pressure that is adjusted to a predetermined high pressure (not less than a lower limit value) by a drive control of a hydraulic pump. This apparatus executes an automatic pressurization control by controlling plural solenoid valves with the use of the accumulator hydraulic pressure. The increasing slope of the brake hydraulic pressure during the automatic pressurization control is determined on the basis of the vehicle motion state. The increasing slope is restricted to be not more than a predetermined restriction value, in the case where the accumulator hydraulic pressure at the time of starting the automatic pressurization control is less than 'a reference hydraulic pressure that is greater than a minimum value of the accumulator hydraulic pressure necessary for assisting the brake operation by the hydraulic booster and smaller than the lower limit value'.

Vehicle motion control apparatus

A brake apparatus capable of applying a regulator pressure regulated by a regulator valve device to an assisting chamber, to obtain a smooth brake feeling, even when a brake pedal is operated by a vehicle driver, during an automatic braking operation. A first control valve is disposed in a power pressure passage for controlling hydraulic pressure in the assisting chamber to be increased. A changeover valve device is disposed in a regulator pressure passage for selecting either one of a communicating state and a shutting-off state of the passage. A second control valve is connected to the regulator pressure passage between the changeover valve device and the assisting chamber, and controls the hydraulic pressure in the assisting chamber to be decreased.

Brake apparatus for a vehicle

A brake control apparatus for controlling at least three brake devices provided for braking respective at least three wheels of an automotive vehicle which includes two wheels located on respective left and right sides of the vehicle, wherein an emergency brake control portion is provided for controlling at least two normal brake devices when at least one of the at least three brake devices is defective, such that a difference between a total left-side braking force to be generated by at least one normal brake device located on the left side of the vehicle and a total right-side braking force to be generated by the other normal brake device or devices located on the right side is made larger when operations of all of the normal brake devices in a detected running condition of the vehicle are not likely to deteriorate the vehicle running stability, than when the operations of all of the normal brake devices in the detected running condition are likely to deteriorate the vehicle running stability.

Vehicle brake control apparatus for controlling normal wheel brakes upon detection of defective wheel brake or brakes

An electric control system for an automotive vehicle, including a peripheral control device for electrically controlling an actuator device, a central control device connected to the peripheral control device, and an input device, wherein the central control device and the peripheral control device cooperate with each other to control the actuator device on the basis of an output of the input device. The input device is connected to both of the central control device and the peripheral control device.

Vehicle electric control system with input device connected to central and peripheral control devices for controlling actuator

The present invention is directed to a hydraulic braking system for an automotive vehicle, wherein a first passage is provided for communicating a master cylinder with first and second wheel cylinders. First and second pressure control devices are disposed in the first passage to control the hydraulic pressure of the brake fluid in the first and second wheel cylinders, respectively. A second passage is provided for communicating the master cylinder with an inlet of an auxiliary pressure source, which introduces the brake fluid from the wheel cylinders, and discharges the pressurized brake fluid to the wheel cylinders through the pressure control devices. A valve device is disposed in the first passage and connected to the second passage to selectively place one of a first operating position for communicating the master cylinder with the pressure control devices and blocking the communication between the master cylinder and the inlet of the auxiliary pressure source, and a second operating position for communicating the master cylinder with the inlet of the auxiliary pressure source and blocking the communication between the master cylinder and the pressure control devices. At least an auxiliary passage is provided for communicating the master cylinder with at least one of the wheel cylinders. And, at least a switching valve is disposed in the auxiliary passage to open and close the auxiliary passage.

Hydraulic braking system for an automotive vehicle

A wheel brake pressure controlling system includes a brake pressure operating circuit for selectively supplying to a wheel brake a primary pressure generated by a vacuum booster in response to the depression of a brake pedal and a secondary pressure generated by a hydraulic pressure pump which is driven by an electric motor, a microcomputer for estimating a turning of vehicle, determining if a turning of the vehicle is in a over- or under-steer region, and for determining a wheel brake, the pressure of which is to be intensified if the turning of the vehicle lies in the over- or under-steer region, and an output controller for supplying the secondary pressure to the wheel brake which has been thus determined, through the brake pressure operating circuit. The microcomputer determines if the turning of a vehicle occurs in a reference region located outside the over- or under-steer region, and whenever the turning of the vehicle occurs in the reference region, drives the second source of pressure for generating the secondary pressure, determines a wheel brake which is to be intensified, and automatically intensifies the wheel brake.

Wheel brake pressure controlling system in which vehicle operating

In a hydraulic brake system for a vehicle, the brake fluid in a first wheel brake and the brake fluid in a second wheel brake which are hydraulically connected to a pressure generating chamber of a master cylinder are individually caused to flow into a low back pressure reservoir with the aid of an electromagnetic change-over valve and first and second electromagnetic cut-off valves; and with a pump driven by an electric motor, the brake fluid flowing in the low back pressure reservoir in the above-described manner is caused to flow through a first check valve and a first orifice to the first wheel brake, and through a second check valve and a second orifice to the second wheel brake. With the pump operated, the first and second electromagnetic cut-off valves are individually operated, so that the first and second wheel brakes are individually decreased or reincreased in hydraulic pressure. For traction control, electromagnetic change-over valves provided in bypass passages are operated. Thus, with the system, anti-lock control and traction control can be achieved, and, even when the valves added for traction control become out of order, brake fluid can be supplied to or drawn from the wheel brakes as required.

Hydraulic brake system for vehicle

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Niwa-gun, Japan

Seiichi Kojima