RESIDUAL BRAKING TORQUE INDICATION DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A device for detecting the residual braking torque in a vehicle equipped with disk brakes, the device comprising:
- at least one piezoceramic sensor integrated into the friction material support of a brake assembly, andan electrical circuit connecting the piezoceramic sensor to at least one electronic control unit, the electronic control unit configured to receive signals detected by said piezoceramic sensor directly from said brake assembly friction material,wherein the electronic control unit comprises at least one residual braking torque indicator, the residual braking torque indicator configured to interact via at least one communication interface, to at least one on board computer of the vehicle.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
Various residual braking torque indication devices, systems, and methods are described. The devices, systems, and methods can include a sensorized brake pad. An output signal of the sensorized brake pad can be processed to provide an indication of a residual braking torque. The residual braking torque indicator can be calibrated to reference data to provide an actual measurement of the residual braking torque.
-
Citations
23 Claims
-
1. A device for detecting the residual braking torque in a vehicle equipped with disk brakes, the device comprising:
-
at least one piezoceramic sensor integrated into the friction material support of a brake assembly, and an electrical circuit connecting the piezoceramic sensor to at least one electronic control unit, the electronic control unit configured to receive signals detected by said piezoceramic sensor directly from said brake assembly friction material, wherein the electronic control unit comprises at least one residual braking torque indicator, the residual braking torque indicator configured to interact via at least one communication interface, to at least one on board computer of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
-
-
16. A method for the calibration of the residual braking torque in a vehicle equipped with disk brakes via a calibration reference dynamometer bench, wherein at least one of the disk brakes comprises a brake pad with an embedded sensor, the sensor configured to sense pressures applied to the brake pad and to transmit pad signals indicative of the pressures, the signals being received by an electronic control unit that is configured to determine a residual braking torque indicator, wherein the method comprises:
-
acquiring background noise contained within the pad signals and the dynamometer bench; setting a residual braking torque value by means of manually adjusting said dynamometer bench; mutually acquiring residual braking torque data from said dynamometer bench and from the residual braking torque indicator; determining experimental data, wherein determining the experimental data comprises repeating the manual adjustment and the acquiring residual braking torque data for a plurality of values of said residual braking torque values on said bench; creating an analytical calibration curve based on the experimental calibration data, and identifying an analytical expression from the calibration curve for converting the residual braking torque indicator values to the actual residual braking torque values.
-
-
17. A system for determining residual torque on the wheel of a motorized vehicle, the system comprising:
-
a sensorized brake pad comprising; a support element; a friction material attached to the support element; a force sensor positioned between the support element and the friction material, the force sensor configured to transmit signals corresponding to a force of the wheel; and a computing system comprising a processor and a non-transitory storage, the computing system configured to; receive the signals from the sensorized brake pad; determine, using the signals from the sensorized brake pad, a residual torque indicator; adjust, using a calibration curve, the residual torque indicator; and determine, based on the adjusted residual torque indicator, the residual torque on the wheel. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
-
-
22. A method of determining residual torque on a wheel of a vehicle, the method comprising:
-
outputting, with a sensorized brake pad, signals indicative of a force on the wheel; receiving the signals with an electronic control unit; determining, with a processor of the electronic control unit, a residual torque indicator based on the signals; modifying, with the processor, the residual torque indicator based on a calibration curve; determining, with the processor, the residual torque on the wheel based on the modified residual torque indicator; and activating an alarm in response to the residual torque on the wheel exceeding a threshold. - View Dependent Claims (23)
-
Specification