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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1993
Kenneth S Towers, Royal Oak, MI (US);
Daniel J Patient, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
AlliedSignal Inc., Southfield, MI (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment the invention comprises a system (50; 200) for controlling service brake and parking functions of at least one wheel of a vehicle comprising: an electric motor (64) drivingly connected to a hydraulic pump (66) for pressurizing hydraulic fluid; the output of the pump communicated to at least one service brake (58a,b), comprising a first hydraulic cylinder (62a,b), an electronics circuit for controlling the speed of the motor (64) to regulate hydraulic pressure in the first hydraulic cylinder in response to operator braking activity (56, 64, 62), the motor and pump providing the primary means of service brake activation. The output of the pump is also communicated to a parking brake mechanism (30; 150), comprising a second hydraulic cylinder (34; 160), the parking brake mechanism having an activated mode of operation corresponding when the second hydraulic cylinder is unpressurized and a deactivated mode of operation corresponding when the second hydraulic cylinder is pressurized, and pressure control valves for controlling flow to and from the various hydraulic cylinders. A second variant of the system is disclosed in which only service brakes are electro-hydraulically controlled.