Method for adjusting brake pressures of a motor vehicle, brake system for carrying out the method and motor vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10688978-B2
Application number	US-201615745715-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 22, 2016
Priority date	Sep 21, 2015
Publication date	Jun 23, 2020
Grant date	Jun 23, 2020

Abstract

A method for adjusting brake pressures on pneumatically operated wheel brakes of a motor vehicle includes setting, in a normal braking mode, a brake pressure depending on a driver brake request determined by the driver of the motor vehicle and a control unit, during reception of an external brake request which is independent of the driver brake request, in a pressure control mode, sets a resulting brake pressure at the respective wheel brakes taking into account the external brake request and the driver brake request. The method further includes terminating, after revocation of the external brake request, the pressure control mode depending on a comparison of a value representing the driver brake request and entered into the control unit with a predefined threshold value.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for adjusting brake pressures on pneumatically operated wheel brakes of a motor vehicle, the method comprising:
setting, in a normal braking mode, a brake pressure depending on a driver brake request determined by the driver of the motor vehicle and a control unit, during reception of an external brake request which is independent of the driver brake request, in a pressure control mode, sets a resulting brake pressure at the respective wheel brakes taking into account the external brake request and the driver brake request,
terminating, after revocation of the external brake request, the pressure control mode depending on a comparison of a value representing the driver brake request and entered into the control unit with a predefined threshold value.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pressure control mode is terminated after the value representing the driver brake request exceeds the predefined threshold value.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the threshold value is predefined in a same dimension as the value representing the driver brake request, wherein the value representing the driver brake request is stored on revocation of the external brake request as a stored value of the driver brake request, and the threshold value is determined from the stored value of the driver brake request.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the threshold value is formed by linking the stored value of the driver brake request with a tolerance value.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein a continual update of the threshold value with a current value representing the driver brake request, wherein the updated threshold value forms the basis for the following comparison with a then applicable value of the driver brake request.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein increases in the driver brake request are not taken into account by the update.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising determining a desired deceleration as a value representing the driver brake request.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pressure control mode is terminated depending on a comparison of a current speed of the motor vehicle and a predefined switching speed value.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pressure control mode is terminated after expiry of a predefined duration since revocation of the external brake request.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the control unit, in the presence of a blocking tendency of certain wheels, controls or regulates the brake pressure of the respective wheel brakes of the wheels in pressure control mode.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the control unit controls the brake pressure at the wheel brakes via a respective pressure control valve, and connects brake circuits of the pressure control valves to a pressure medium store via operation of a respective actuation valve per brake circuit.

12. A brake system of a motor vehicle, the brake system comprising:
a brake cylinder and a pressure control valve configured to be controlled by a control unit, and
a service brake valve configured to be operated by a driver of the motor vehicle, and
a brake signal emitter,
wherein brake pressures in the brake cylinders is configured to be set, in a normal braking mode, depending on an actuation of the service brake valve by the driver and a driver brake request determined via the brake signal emitter,
wherein the brake pressure in the brake cylinder is configured to be set, in a pressure control mode, by the control unit via the respective pressure control valve,
wherein the control unit is configured to receive a brake request which is independent of the driver brake request and to switch into a pressure control mode provided for this case,
wherein a threshold value for termination of the pressure control mode is predefined for the control unit, and the control unit is configured to perform comparisons of a value representing the driver brake request with the threshold value.

13. The brake system as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the control unit, in the presence of a blocking tendency of a wheel of the motor vehicle to which the brake cylinder corresponds, controls or regulates the brake pressure of a wheel brakes of the wheel in the pressure control mode.

14. The brake system as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the pressure control valves is arranged in one or more brake circuits which can each be connected to a pressure medium store via an actuation valve, wherein the actuation valve is connected electrically to the control unit and is switchable.

15. The brake system as claimed in claim 14 , wherein the pressure control valve corresponds to a wheel of an axle of the motor vehicles and another pressure control valve corresponds to another wheels of the axle of the motor vehicle, wherein the pressure control valve and the another pressure control valve are connected to a pressure medium store via a common brake circuit with an actuation valve.

16. A motor vehicle with a brake system as claimed in claim 12 .

Assignees

• Wabco Gmbh

Inventors

• Eckert Horst

Classifications

• B60T13/662 Primary

  characterised by specified functions of the control system components · CPC title

• B60T8/3255

  Systems in which the braking action is dependent on brake pedal data · CPC title

• B60T13/683

  in pneumatic systems or parts thereof (in vacuum systems B60T13/72) · CPC title

• B60T7/12

  for automatic initiation; for initiation not subject to will of driver or passenger {(limiting speed of vehicles other than rail vehicles B60K31/00)} · CPC title

• B60Y2400/81

  Braking systems · CPC title