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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022
Filed:
May. 28, 2020
Continental Teves Ag & CO Ohg, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Harald Biller, Eschborn, DE;
CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, INC., Auburn Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a brake system for motor vehicles, comprising a master brake cylinder actuable by a brake pedal, an electrically controllable pressure provision device, a pressure medium reservoir tank, from which the master brake cylinder and the pressure provision device are supplied with pressure medium, and at least two hydraulically actuable wheel brakes and at least one electrically actuable inlet valve per wheel brake, wherein the wheel brakes are actuable either by the master brake cylinder or by the pressure provision device, the pressure medium reservoir tank is monitored by a device for determining a level of the pressure medium, wherein the wheel brakes are divided into at least one first wheel brake group and one second wheel brake group, and wherein the inlet valves of the first wheel brake group are closed when the determined level falls below a first limit value (s).