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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2013
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Peter Tomczak, Boppard, DE;
Reiner Schmid, Bergisch Gladbach, DE;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for operating a brake device, in particular of a motor vehicle, wherein the brake device comprises a service brake and a mechanical parking brake, wherein the parking brake can be actuated by means of a mechanical actuating element, comprising at least the steps of establishing that the actuating element has been moved from an idle position into a position of use, simultaneously controlling a pressure-increasing element, so that a hydraulic pressure is generated, which hydraulic pressure acts on a brake element that is common with the holding element, blocking the common brake element of the service brake and the parking brake with a mechanical block of the mechanical parking brake.