Robert Boschgmbh

Werner Kopper

Herbert Schramm

Dieter Worner

Rudiger Frank

Hubert Moller

Werner Schiele

A drive slip control system for a motor vehicle which brakes a driven wheel when that wheel begins to slip and which reduces engine torque when both driven wheels begin to slip on the pavement. The action of the drive slip control system is inhibited when the engine speed falls below a preset speed, such as the engine idle speed.

Drive slip control system

A drive slip regulating system is described, in which the speeds of the drive wheels are compared with one another and as a function of the deviation .DELTA. v a set-point brake pressure is calculated, with which the excessively spinning wheel is to be braked. In the pulsed furnishing of the brake pressure, the valve opening times are calculated, taking the pressure buildup function into account, in such a way that the actual brake pressure corresponds to the set-point brake pressure.

Drive slip regulating system

A versatile system for preventing spinning of driving wheels, especially for commercial road vehicles, is provided by a braking control system in which a logic system responds not only to positive slip (overdriving) of each driven wheel, but also to negative slip (overbraking) thereof and, likewise, not only to over-acceleration, but also to excessive deceleration of the driven wheels. The cycle of control is started by an over-acceleration signal and terminates by the timing-out of a control phase in which hydraulic brake pressure is reduced. Within a control cycle, brake pressure builds up for a driven wheel in response to the simultaneous occurrence of any one of the following four pairs of conditions at that wheel: (a) presence of over-acceleration and of negative slip; (b) presence of over-acceleration and of positive slip; (c) presence of over-acceleration and absence of negative slip, and (d) presence of over-deceleration and of positive slip. For purposes of braking, but not for purposes of reducing engine torque, when over-acceleration occurs at a first driving wheel at one side of the vehicle, a pseudo-positive-slip signal is generated for the driving wheel on the other side, but that pseudo-signal is suppressed if at the first driving wheel there appears a slip signal or an overdeceleration signal.

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Brighton, MI, United States of America

Werner Kopper