Method of improving the control behavior of a braking system

• US 6,109,704 A
• Filed: 05/19/1998
• Issued: 08/29/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (ITT, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. (ITT, Inc.)
• Inventors: Batistic, Ivica
• Primary Examiner(s): Schwartz, Christopher P.
• Application Number:
  US09/043,817
• Time in Patent Office: 833 Days
• Field of Search: 303/194, 303/195, 303/196, 303/DIG. 5, 303/154, 303/156, 303/167, 303/177, 303/185
• US Class Current: 303/194
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2210/14 Rough roads, bad roads, gravel roads
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/173 Eliminating or reducing the effect of unwanted signals, e.g. due to vibrations or electrical noise
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/175 Brake regulation specially adapted to prevent excessive wheel spin during vehicle acceleration, e.g. for traction control safety devices for propulsion unit control responsive to, or preventing, skidding of wheels B60K28/16
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/17616 Microprocessor-based systems

Abstract

A method of improving the control behavior of a controlled brake system, wherein the rotational behavior of the individual vehicle wheels is measured and evaluated for determining control quantities, and wherein slip threshold values for the commencement of the control are predetermined, includes that the slip threshold of a wheel is increased for a predefined time interval as a function of the acceleration after preceding instability in order to suppress the effects of road surface irregularities. This increase may be carried out in two steps as a function of the exceeded acceleration limit values.

Claims

1. A method of improving the control behavior of an electronically controlled brake system, wherein the rotational behavior of individual vehicle wheels is measured and evaluated for determining a vehicle reference speed, wheel slip, wheel deceleration and acceleration, and, if required, other control quantities,

wheel slip threshold values being predefined for the commencement of a control,

the wheel slip threshold being increased for a predetermined time interval as a function of the wheel acceleration after preceding instability of the respective wheel,

the wheel slip threshold rise being effected when predetermined limit values of wheel acceleration are exceeded

wherein several acceleration limit values of a different magnitude are predefined, and wherein the wheel slip threshold is stepwise increased as a function of the excess of the acceleration limit values.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein two acceleration limit values are predetermined, and wherein the slip threshold is increased by a predetermined, relatively low value in a first step when a first, low acceleration limit value is exceeded, and by a predetermined, comparatively higher value in a second step when a second, higher acceleration limit value is exceeded.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the predetermined time interval for the increase of the slip threshold is in the order between 50 and 200 msec.

4. A method of improving the control behavior of an electronically controlled brake system, wherein the rotational behavior of individual vehicle wheels is measured and evaluated for determining a vehicle reference speed, wheel slip, wheel deceleration and acceleration, and, if required, other control quantities,

wheel slip threshold values being predefined for the commencement of a control,

the wheel slip threshold being increased for a predetermined time interval as a function of the wheel acceleration after preceding instability of the respective wheel,

the wheel slip threshold rise being effected when predetermined limit values of wheel acceleration are exceeded,

wherein the slip threshold, which was increased due to an excess of the predetermined acceleration limit value, is reset as soon as the acceleration of the wheel falls below a predetermined resetting threshold upon expiry of the predetermined time interval.

5. A method as claimed in claim 4,

wherein the level of the resetting threshold depends on the value to which the slip threshold was raised.

6. A method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the predetermined time interval for the increase of the slip threshold is in the order between 50 and 200 ms.