Method for regulating a predetermined modifiable brake pressure

• US 7,140,699 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2003
• Issued: 11/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Neu, Andreas, Scheller, Tobias, Gronau, Ralph, Reviol, Ralf
• Primary Examiner(s): Schwartz, Christopher P.
• Application Number:
  US10/502,687
• Publication Number:
  US 20050082905A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,384 Days
• Field of Search: 3031131-1135, 3031161-116, 3031191-1192, 303/155, 303/156, 303/3, 303/15, 303/20
• US Class Current: 303/113.4
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/36 including a pilot valve responding to an electromagnetic force
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/442 the booster being a fluid return pump, e.g. in combination with a brake pedal force booster
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/4872 pump-back systems

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for regulating a predetermined modifiable brake pressure in the wheel brakes of a brake system, wherein input quantities determining the brake pressure in the individual wheel brakes are evaluated and correcting variables of hydraulic valves are defined in a control and/or data processing system. To obviate the need for additional pressure sensors which register the pressure in the wheel brakes, it is arranged for by the invention that a characteristic curve is stored in the control or data processing system, said curve correlating the valve characteristics of the hydraulic valve with a pressure difference of the hydraulic valve, and the correcting variable of the hydraulic valve is defined according to the characteristic curve.

Claims

1. Method for regulating a predetermined modifiable brake pressure in the wheel brakes of a brake system which includes an actuating device and at least one hydraulic valve, the method comprising:

monitoring a pressure associated with the actuating device;

determining a nominal pressure for the wheel brakes based on the monitored actuating device pressure;

providing a characteristic curve that correlates a valve current of the hydraulic valve with a pressure difference between the nominal pressure for the wheel brakes and the monitored actuating device pressure;

determining the pressure difference between the nominal pressure for the wheel brakes and the monitored actuating device pressure; and

comparing the determined pressure difference to the characteristic curve and determining a correcting variable of the hydraulic valve according to the characteritstic curve

wherein the nominal pressure is determined according to the function P_nomnial=P_{point of max. boosting}+factor K ×

P_TMC−

P_{point of max. boosting}) with P_nomnial=nominal pressure, P_{point of max. boosting}=pressure at the point of maximum boosting of an associated brake booster and P_TMC=pressure of the actuating device.

2. Method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein at least two strategies are provided for regulating the brake pressure, the valve current following the course of the characteristic curve according to the first strategy, while the second strategy arranges for jump functions at the maximum actuating current or the actuating current represented by the characteristic curve.

3. Method as claimed in claim 2,

wherein the maximum actuating current of the separating valve is limited according to the function I_max=f(P_max, P_TMC, P_PLV).

4. Method as claimed in claim 3,

wherein the separating valve is opened when the pressure in the hydraulic unit and the wheel brakes or a differential pressure produced from the pressure in front of and behind the separating valve exceeds a predefined value (P_PLV).

5. Method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the maximum actuating current of the separating valve is limited according to the function I_max=min(P_max, P_TMC, P_pLv).

6. Method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the correcting variable is an electric valve current used to control the hydraulic valve in analog manner.

7. Device for implementing the method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the variable brake pressure generated by actuation of a pump is controlled in such a way that a desired hydraulic boosting is achieved in each brake circuit.

8. Method as claimed in claim 1 wherein P_{point of max. boosting} is a predetermined value and nomial pressure values are stored for look up based on the monitored actuating device pressure.