Method of determining a wear-dependent braking force distribution
First Claim
1. A method of determining a wear-dependent braking force distribution between braked wheels of a vehicle, comprising the steps of determining wear values of brake linings at a beginning of each journey, supplying signals representing the wear values to a computer, determining the wear-dependent braking force distribution in the computer device at the beginning of each journey such that a setting signal representing a lower braking force is supplied to vehicle brakes exhibiting a wear which is too large relative to other vehicle brakes and retaining the wear-dependent braking force distribution during each journey, storing previously measured individual wear values in a memory of the computer, and controlling braking operations during each journey to obtain the wear-dependent braking force distribution.
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Abstract
A method of wear-dependent braking force distribution prevents adhesion problems without being limited to lowest brake pressures as is the case with conventional methods. Wear control is dispensed with only in the case of operationally very rare braking actions, for example, those above 0.3 g or a learned adhesion threshold. These rare braking actions are limited, in practice, to genuinely critical braking situations. Otherwise, the control interventions are carried out with to produce balanced wear only in the long term; an attempt is made to achieve wear at the same rate rather than simply balanced wear.
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- 1. A method of determining a wear-dependent braking force distribution between braked wheels of a vehicle, comprising the steps of determining wear values of brake linings at a beginning of each journey, supplying signals representing the wear values to a computer, determining the wear-dependent braking force distribution in the computer device at the beginning of each journey such that a setting signal representing a lower braking force is supplied to vehicle brakes exhibiting a wear which is too large relative to other vehicle brakes and retaining the wear-dependent braking force distribution during each journey, storing previously measured individual wear values in a memory of the computer, and controlling braking operations during each journey to obtain the wear-dependent braking force distribution.
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