Hydraulic control device and brake device using same

• US 6,089,359 A
• Filed: 11/13/1998
• Issued: 07/18/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Akebono Brake Industry Company Limited (Akebono Brake Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Akebono Brake Industry Company Limited (Akebono Brake Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Graham, Matthew C.
• Application Number:
  US09/190,270
• Time in Patent Office: 613 Days
• Field of Search: 188/72.6, 188/162, 188/156, 188/158, 188/106 F, 303/3, 303/15, 303/20, 303/115.2
• US Class Current: 188/162
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 13/741 acting on an ultimate actuator
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/042 by electrical means, e.g. using travel or force sensors
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2066/003 Position, angle or speed
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2121/24 using motors
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2125/10 Plural pistons interacting by fluid pressure, e.g. hydraulic force amplifiers using different sized pistons
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2125/26 Cranks
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2125/48 with parallel stationary axes, e.g. spur gears
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 65/18 adapted for drawing members together , e.g. for disc brakes

Abstract

A brake device includes a main piston slidably mounted within a caliper body of the brake device, a cylinder body provided inside an inner periphery of the piston, a sealed fluid chamber which is formed by the cylinder body and an inner peripheral surface of the main piston, and is filled with a fluid, a shaft rotatably mounted on the cylinder body, pressure control pistons which are driven by the shaft to move into and out of the fluid chamber, a linear movement conversion mechanism provided between the shaft and each of the pressure control pistons so as to convert a rotation of the shaft into a linear movement of the pressure control piston, a motor for rotating the shaft, a speed changer provided between the shaft and the motor so as to transmit the number of revolutions of the motor to the shaft in a manner to reduce the number of revolutions, and an electronic control unit (ECU) for controlling the motor.

Claims

1. A brake device comprising:

a main piston slidably mounted within a caliper body of said brake device;

a cylinder body provided inside an inner periphery of said piston;

a sealed fluid chamber which is formed by said cylinder body and an inner peripheral surface of said main piston, and is filled with a fluid;

a shaft rotatably mounted on said cylinder body;

pressure control pistons driven by said shaft to move into and out of said fluid chamber;

a linear movement conversion mechanism provided between said shaft and each of said pressure control pistons so as to convert a rotation of said shaft into a linear movement of said pressure control pistons;

a motor for rotating said shaft;

a speed changer provided between said shaft and said motor so as to transmit the number of revolutions of said motor to said shaft in a manner to reduce said number of revolutions; and

an electronic control unit (ECU) for controlling said motor.

2. A brake device according to claim 1, wherein said linear movement conversion mechanism comprises links each provided between said shaft and the associated pressure control piston, and said shaft has stoppers for limiting the angle of rotation of said shaft in normal and reverse directions, and maximum and minimum fluid pressures, developing within said fluid chamber, are determined by said stoppers.

3. A brake device according to claim 1 or claim 2, wherein said pressure control pistons, said shaft, said linear movement conversion mechanism and said speed changer are received within said body in a compact manner.