Anti-locking system for a two-wheel road vehicle with hydraulic dual circuit braking installation

• US 4,626,042 A
• Filed: 01/26/1984
• Issued: 12/02/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG (Mercedes-Benz Group AG)
• Inventors: Burckhardt, Manfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Stoner, Jr., Bruce H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Oberley, Alvin
• Application Number:
  US06/574,083
• Time in Patent Office: 1,041 Days
• Field of Search: 303/95, 303/96, 303/97, 303/98, 303/99, 303/105, 303/106, 303/107, 303/108, 303/109, 303/110, 303/111, 303/119, 303/6 A, 303/6 C, 188/181 A, 188/181 C, 364/426, 383/DIG. 4
• US Class Current: 303/186
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1706 for single-track vehicles, e.g. motorcycles
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/268 using the valves of an ABS, ASR or ESP system
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/3225 Systems specially adapted for single-track vehicles, e.g. motorcycles B60T8/3235 takes precedence

Abstract

An anti-locking system is provided for a two-wheel road vehicle which is equipped with electro-hydraulic braking pressure control equipment, which generates the driving signals necessary for appropriate driving or braking pressure control valves by processing wheel rotational speed sensor output signals. In order to obtain both good braking effect and good driving stability when the control equipment responds, the brake slip λ_F of the front wheel is controlled to a value which is always less than the rear wheel brake slip λ_R. The control responds if, on the one hand, critical values of the wheel deceleration are exceeded and/or, on the other hand, if the brake slip λ_F on the front wheel exceeds a threshold value still considered as permissible. As part of the anti-locking system, the braking installation is so designed that for both manual actuation and pedal actuation both wheel brake circuits respond with the installed braking force distribution. This is so arranged that for adhesion coefficients of more than 0.3 between the track and the wheel, the rear wheel would lock before the front wheel should the control equipment not operate.

Claims

1. An anti-locking system for a two-wheel road vehicle having a hydraulic dual circuit braking installation, a front wheel brake and a rear wheel brake, with a wheel rotational speed sensor means provided individually for the front and rear vehicle wheels, means for generating deceleration signals respectively therefor and with braking pressure control means, the braking pressure control means having braking pressure control valves for controlling the front wheel brake and rear wheel brake, the braking pressure control valves having at least a pressure maintaining position and a pressure reduction position,

first comparator means receiving said front wheel deceleration signal b_F and comprising

first means transmitting a signal when front wheel deceleration b_F exceeds a threshold value b_F1 for driving the pressure control valve means into the pressure maintaining position and second means transmitting a signal when front wheel deceleration b_F exceeds a second threshold value b_F2 which is greater than the threshold value b_F1 for driving the pressure control valve means into the pressure reduction position,

second comparator means receiving said rear wheel deceleration signal b_R and comprising

third means transmitting a signal when rear wheel deceleration b_R is greater than a threshold value b_R1 for driving the pressure control valve means into the pressure maintenance position, and fourth means transmitting a signal when rear wheel deceleration b_R is greater than a second threshold value b_R2 which is greater than threshold value b_R1 for driving the pressure control valve means into the pressure reduction position,

a processing means receiving front wheel rotation speed signals and rear wheel rotation speed signals for generating a front brake slip signal λ

_F and a rear wheel brake slip signal λ

_R, said signals λ

_F and λ

_R being referenced to a reference velocity v_r,

third comparator means receiving said front and rear brake slip signals λ

_F and λ

_R and comprising

fifth means transmitting a signal when front brake slip λ

_F is greater than or equal to a value which is less than the rear wheel brake slip λ

_R by an amount D₁ for driving the pressure control valve means into the pressure maintaining position,

sixth means generating a signal when front wheel brake slip λ

_F differs from the rear wheel brake slip λ

_R only by an amount d which is smaller than D₁ for driving the braking pressure control valves into the pressure reduction position,

seventh means transmitting a signal when front wheel braking slip λ

_F equals or exceeds a first threshold value λ

_F1 for driving the braking pressure control valves into the pressure maintaining position, and

3. An anti-locking system according to claim 1, wherein for said fifth means, said amount D₁ by which the brake slip λ

_F of the front wheel is to be less than λ

_R of the rear wheel is at least 3% and preferably 5%+1% of the brake slipλ

_R.

4. An anti-locking system according to claim 1, wherein

a prescribed limiting value L of the brake slipλ

_F at which said braking pressure control means responds corresponds to a value at which the maximum force transmission between road and wheel exits at a maximum of a μ

-slip curve.

5. An anti-locking system according to claim 1, wherein

the braking pressure control means further effects on installed braking force distribution of the braking installation at braking values which are larger than a prescribed limiting deceleration which is less than a maximum decleration obtainable with high adhesion coefficients between the road and the vehicle wheels, and usable braking force at the rear wheel is greater than usable braking force at the front wheel.

6. An anti-locking system according to claim 4, wherein the prescribed limiting deceleration corresponds to a braking effort which is attainable at adhesion coefficients of 0.3+0.05.

7. An anti-locking system according to claim 1 wherein said braking installation comprises a brake pedal and a hand lever and as part of the braking installation, the system further comprises

a tandem main cylinder with a first output pressure space allocated to a front wheel brake circuit snd a second output pressure space allocated to a rear wheel brake circuit, and a main piston of the tandem main cylinder is displaceable both by the actuation of said pedal and by the actuation of said hand lever, in the direction of a pressure increase of the two brake circuits respectively.

8. An anti-locking system according to claim 6, further comprising

a floating secondary piston within the tandem main cylinder,

said second output pressure space being limited in the axial direction by the main piston and said floating secondary piston of the tandem main cylinder being allocated to the rear wheel brake circuit and

said first output pressure space being limited by the floating secondary piston and an end wall of a housing of said tandem main cylinder allocated to the front wheel brake circuit.

9. An anti-locking system according to claim 6, wherein

the main piston of the tandem main cylinder is itself designed as a floating piston means,

a pressure rod supported on the floating piston means the rod displaceable by means of the brake pedal, and the floating piston means limits, on one side, a control pressure space of the tandem main cylinder which can be subjected to the output pressure of a control cylinder actuatable by the hand lever.

10. An anti-locking system according to claim 6, wherein

a basic position of the braking pressure control valves is a pressure-increasing position, and

wherein the rotational sensors each comprise electronic means for sensing peripheral velocity of a wheel, the anti-locking system further comprising

a front wheel brake cylinder for said front wheel brake,

a rear wheel brake cylinder for said rear wheel brake, and

means for transmitting brake fluid from said front wheel brake cylinder and said rear wheel brake cylinder into said tandem main cylinder when said braking pressure control valves are in said pressure reduction position.

2. eigth means transmitting a signal when front wheel brake slip λ

_F is greater than a second threshold value λ

_F2 which is greater than the threshold value λ

_F1 for driving the pressure control valve means into the pressure reduction position.