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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019
Filed:
May. 24, 2017
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Thaddeus Hill, Livonia, MI (US);
Joe Alexander Bousamra, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Lawrence Robert Rhein, China, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 8/17 (2006.01); B60T 8/176 (2006.01); B60T 8/172 (2006.01); B60T 7/20 (2006.01); B60T 8/32 (2006.01); B60T 7/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 8/1708 (2013.01); B60T 7/042 (2013.01); B60T 7/20 (2013.01); B60T 8/172 (2013.01); B60T 8/176 (2013.01); B60T 8/321 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle brake system includes a brake control device, a vehicle acceleration sensor, and a trailer brake controller. The trailer brake controller outputs an initial trailer brake torque demand based on an input received from the brake control device and adjusts the initial trailer brake torque demand to converge a signal from the vehicle acceleration sensor to an expected negative acceleration value correlated with the input from the brake control device.