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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2002
William R. Fleming, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Norman K. Arnold, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC, Warrenville, IL (US);
Abstract
A park-brake monitoring-system monitors the operating state of a park-brake system of a vehicle. The park-brake monitoring-system comprises operating-state sensors that produce and communicate sensed operating-state signals in manners dependent upon the operating state of the park-brake system to other components of the vehicle. The configuration and interaction with the park-brake system and the park-brake monitoring system of the operating-state sensors is refined such that the sensed operating-state signals produced thereby include signal types that are implicative of the park-brake system having a fully-set operating state, signal types that are implicative of the park-brake system having a fully-released operating state, signal types implicative of the park-brake system having a not-fully-released operating state, and signal types implicative of the park-brake system having a not-fully-set operating state.