Continental Teves, Ag and Company Ohg

Wolfgang Kling

Robert Schmidt

Ivica Batistic

Georg Roll

J&uuml;rgen Woywod

Andreas Kohl

Dirk Waldbauer

Rüdiger Puff

A method for increasing the maneuverability and driving stability of an automotive vehicle during cornering, the rotational behavior or the wheel slip of the individual vehicle wheels is monitored, and the distribution of the brake force to the curve-outward wheels compared to the brake force conducted to the curve-inward wheels is varied in dependence on the wheel rotational behavior and on the slip of the wheels. When cornering is detected, a total deceleration of the vehicle that corresponds to the driver's request is determined, and a vehicle deceleration that corresponds to the driver's request is achieved by increasing the brake force at the curve-outward wheels and decreasing or maintaining the brake force at the curve-inward wheels.

Method for increasing the maneuverability or driving stability of a vehicle during cornering

The invention consists in the determination of road conditions during unbraked or partially braked ride of a vehicle through a time derivative of characteristics which are detected on at least one wheel of the vehicle and whose averages are created.

Determination of road conditions in a non-braking or partially braking vehicle

Disclosed is a method for identifying a critical braking operation of a two-track vehicle during cornering, which features the steps of detecting the running behaviour of a left-hand side wheel and of a right-hand side wheel, of comparing the running behaviour and/or of evaluating the time variation of at least one left-hand side wheel or right-hand side wheel, and of identifying a critical braking operation on the basis of the result of the comparison and/or of the result of the evaluation. As a reaction, there may ensue the reduction of the braking pressure of a wheel on the inside of the corner in response to identification. A device for identifying a critical braking operation of a two-track vehicle during cornering includes a detecting device ( ) for detecting the running behaviour of a left-hand side wheel and of a right-hand side wheel ( ), a first comparing device ( ) for comparing the running behaviour and/or an evaluating device ( ) for evaluating the time variation of at least one left-hand side wheel or one right-hand side wheel, and an identifying device ( ) for identifying a critical braking operation on the basis of the output of the comparing device and/or of the output of the evaluating device. Moreover, a modifying device ( ) can be provided for reducing the braking pressure of a wheel on the inside of the corner in response to identification.

Method and device for detecting unstable braking and controlling braking pressure

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Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany

Wolfgang Kling