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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2000

Filed:

Oct. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:

Dirk Zittlau, Stockelsberg, DE;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
303150 ; 188 721 ; 188158 ; 188162 ; 303166 ;
Abstract

Electrical, continuously acting wheel brake actuators are individually controlled. The following calculation and control procedures are carried out in a control unit: the wheel slip and the wheel acceleration are calculated for each wheel; if the wheel slip or the wheel acceleration exceed a predefined first threshold value, then the respective actual value of the brake pressure is stored; the quotient of the stored actual value and a pressure value which is characteristic of the vehicle is formed for the respective wheel, and the coefficient of friction .mu. is thus estimated; and an ABS brake-pressure closed-loop control operation is carried out at the individual wheels using the value.


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