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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2011
Johann Jungbecker, Badenheim, DE;
Steffen Linkenbach, Eschborn, DE;
Stefan A. Drumm, Saulheim, DE;
Marco Besier, Bad Schwalbach, DE;
Josko Kurbasa, Waldsolms, DE;
Jochen Führer, Darmstadt, DE;
Johann Jungbecker, Badenheim, DE;
Steffen Linkenbach, Eschborn, DE;
Stefan A. Drumm, Saulheim, DE;
Marco Besier, Bad Schwalbach, DE;
Josko Kurbasa, Waldsolms, DE;
Jochen Führer, Darmstadt, DE;
CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG, Frankfurt, DE;
Abstract
A method for monitoring a brake system for motor vehicles. The system can be actuated both by a vehicle driver and independently of the vehicle driver in what is known as a brake-by-wire mode. The hydraulic actuation device can be actuated by means of a brake pedal and has a main brake cylinder to which wheel brakes are connected, at least two brake circuits, a simulation device, which comprises at least one elastic element and gives the vehicle driver a comfortable pedal feeling, an electrically controllable pressure-providing device, which is formed by a cylinder/piston assembly, the piston of which can be actuated by an electromagnetic actuator, wherein the first measurement variable (P) characterizing a position of the piston is detected. The detected measurement value of the first and second measurement variable (S, P) are compared to a predetermined characteristic map of the first and second measurement variables in order to monitor a functional status of the brake system.