Braking system for vehicle provided with ABS or an anti-skid protection system

• US 6,945,611 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2001
• Issued: 09/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme FüR Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH (Estate of Heinz Hermann Thiele)
• Original Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme FüR Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH (Estate of Heinz Hermann Thiele)
• Inventors: Schmid, Ralf, Mayer, Reinhold
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, XUAN LAN T
• Application Number:
  US10/296,913
• Publication Number:
  US 20040041465A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,574 Days
• Field of Search: 303/122.06, 303/170, 303/171, 303/172, 303/173, 303/167, 303/20, 303/DIG.9, 303/138
• US Class Current: 303/122.06
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2250/04 Vehicle reference speed; Vehicle body speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/172 Determining control parameters used in the regulation, e.g. by calculations involving measured or detected parameters B60T8/17551 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 303/09 Plural processors

Abstract

The general principle underlying the invention is a braking system that is provided with an arithmetic unit with at least two independent channels for determining the reference speeds approximated to the actual vehicle speed. The at least two determined reference speeds are used only for regulating a part of the brakes installed in the vehicle.

Claims

1. A braking system for vehicles equipped with an ABS system or an antiskid protection system, comprising:

rotational wheel speed sensors for sensing rotational wheel speed and providing rotational wheel speed signals;

an arithmetic unit which has at least two channels for the separate calculation of at least a first and a second reference speed approximating the actual vehicle speed from the rotational wheel speed signals and for generating control signals for antilock valves based on the reference speeds (V_ref1, V_ref2), a first portion of the antilock valves for a first group of wheels being assigned to a first channel, and a second portion of the antilock valves for a second group of wheels being assigned to a second channel;

at least first and second rotational wheel speed sensors for wheels of the first and second groups, respectively being assigned only to the first channel for the first reference speed calculation;

at least third and fourth rotational wheel speed sensors for wheels of the first and second groups respectively being assigned only to the second channel for the second reference speed calculations;

the first and third rotational wheel speed sensors being assigned to the first channel for generating control signals for the first portion of the antilock valves for the first group of wheels; and

the second and fourth rotational wheel speed sensors being assigned to the second channel for generating control signals for the second portion of the antilock valves for the second group of wheels.

2. The braking system according to claim 1, wherein at least one rotational wheel speed sensor of a front axle and of a rear axle is assigned to each of the channels.

3. The braking system according to claim 2, wherein the arithmetic unit includes a control device for a plausibility check of the rotational wheel speed signals supplied by the rotational wheel speed sensors.

4. The braking system according to claim 1, wherein the arithmetic unit includes a control device for a plausibility check of the rotational wheel speed signals supplied by the rotational wheel speed sensors.