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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2013
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Daniel Sigfus Maitlen, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A trailer brake control method that includes determining, based on information from a vehicle speed sensor, a current vehicle speed of a vehicle; and regardless of the current vehicle speed, determining, using a processing unit, a minimum trailer brake control value (MTBCV) based on the equation MTBCV=R1−Cth root(the current vehicle speed)/R2, wherein the minimum trailer brake control value corresponds to a minimum braking force at the current vehicle speed, R1 is a real number less than 1.0, C is an integer greater than 2, and R2 is a real number greater than 1.0. The method also includes determining, using the processing unit, a trailer brake command signal based on the minimum trailer brake control value; and operating brakes of a trailer connected to the vehicle at or above the minimum braking force by transmitting the trailer brake command signal from the vehicle to a trailer.