Two-wheeled motor vehicle brake control method and brake control system

• US 8,185,286 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2006
• Issued: 05/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bosch Corporation (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Original Assignee: Bosch Corporation (Robert Bosch GmbH)
• Inventors: Ogawa, Takahiro, Westerfeld, Helge, Kanno, Manabu, Ono, Shunsaku
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): HUYNH, LUAT T
• Application Number:
  US12/162,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055066A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,295 Days
• Field of Search: 701/70, 180/65.1, 180/227, 188/1.12, 188/5, 188/277, 280/11.231, 280/250, 280/304
• US Class Current: 701/70
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2240/06 Wheel load; Wheel lift
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1706 for single-track vehicles, e.g. motorcycles
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1766 Proportioning of brake forces according to vehicle axle loads, e.g. front to rear of vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/261 specially adapted for use in motorcycles
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/3225 Systems specially adapted for single-track vehicles, e.g. motorcycles B60T8/3235 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/5006 Pressure reapplication by pulsing of valves B60T8/5012, B60T8/5018, B60T8/505, B60T8/5056 take precedence

Abstract

To reliably prevent re-lifting of a rear wheel immediately after landing of the rear wheel.

When it is determined that output of a detection signal corresponding to detection of lifting of a rear wheel has ended (S102), brake pressure—and specifically a pressure increase gradient of a wheel cylinder pressure of a front wheel—is reduced, and the pressure increase gradient that has been reduced is maintained until it is determined that vehicle body deceleration has fallen below a predetermined value K1 (S108, S110), whereby re-lifting of the rear wheel caused by an increase in brake pressure at a high pressure increase gradient after landing of the rear wheel can be reliably prevented.

Claims

1. A two-wheeled motor vehicle brake control method for a two-wheeled motor vehicle having an electronic control unit, said method comprising:

using the electronic control unit to execute a program for detecting rear wheel lifting,

reducing a pressure increase gradient of a wheel cylinder pressure of a front wheel when rear wheel lifting is no longer being detected,

wherein reducing a pressure increase gradient does not start until after rear wheel lifting is no longer being detected and after landing of the rear wheel.

2. The two-wheeled motor vehicle brake control method of claim 1, wherein the pressure increase gradient that has been reduced is maintained until it is determined that vehicle body deceleration has fallen below a predetermined value.

3. A two-wheeled motor vehicle brake control system configured to be capable of transmitting oil pressure arising in a front brake master cylinder in response to operation of a first brake operator to a front wheel cylinder via an oil pressure system, capable of transmitting oil pressure arising in a rear brake master cylinder in response to operation of a second brake operator to a rear wheel cylinder via an oil pressure system, and capable of discharging brake fluid of the front wheel cylinder to a front reservoir as desired,

wherein the brake control system is configured to determine whether or not output of a detection signal that is generated by detection of lifting of a rear wheel has ended and, when it is determined that output of the detection signal has ended, reduce a pressure increase gradient of a wheel cylinder pressure of a front wheel,

wherein the brake control system is configured such that reducing a pressure increase gradient does not start until after rear wheel lifting is no longer being detected and after landing of the rear wheel.

4. The two-wheeled motor vehicle brake control system of claim 3, wherein the brake control system is configured to determine whether or not vehicle body deceleration has fallen below a predetermined value after reduction of the pressure increase gradient has been performed and maintain the pressure increase gradient that has been reduced until it is determined that vehicle body deceleration has fallen below the predetermined value.