Control arrangement for a trailer vehicle

• US 8,660,745 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2009
• Issued: 02/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wabco GmbH (Wabco Holdings Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Wabco GmbH (Wabco Holdings Incorporated)
• Inventors: Risse, Rainer, Ronnenberg, Udo, Stender, Axel
• Primary Examiner(s): Zanelli, Michael J
• Application Number:
  US13/127,125
• Publication Number:
  US 20110257840A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,669 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60D 1/64 Couplings or joints therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/305 Indicating devices for towed vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 11/00 Arrangement of monitoring devices for devices provided for in groups B60Q1/00 - B60Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 13/662 characterised by specified functions of the control system components
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 17/22 Devices for monitoring or checking brake systems; Signal devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/20 specially for trailers, e.g. in case of uncoupling of or overrunning by trailer inertia-actuated overrun brakes B60T13/08
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 8/1708 for lorries or tractor-trailer combinations

Abstract

A control arrangement for a trailer vehicle comprises a brake system, a lighting system, a control device for controlling the lighting system, and a data transfer system for transferring data between the control device and the brake system. The control device and the brake system are arranged such that information about the status of the lighting system is transferred to the brake system by means of the control device, and/or information about the brake system is transferred to the control device for changing the status of the lighting system.

Claims

1. A control arrangement for a trailer vehicle, the control arrangement comprising a trailer brake system, a trailer light system, a control device for controlling the light system, and a data transmission system for transmitting data between the control device and the brake system, wherein the control device and the brake system are configured such that at least one of information about the status of the light system is transmitted to the brake system by means of the control device and information in the brake system is transmitted to the control device to change the status of the light system.

2. The control arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the brake system includes a brake modulator, and the data transmission system is configured to transmit data between the control device and the brake modulator.

3. The control arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control device includes a central control unit.

4. The control arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data transmission system comprises at least one of a data bus and at least one individual wiring system.

5. The control arrangement as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a first connection for connecting the control device to a truck.

6. The control arrangement as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a second connection for connecting the brake system to a truck.

7. The control arrangement as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a sensor system controllable by the control device.

8. The control arrangement as claimed in claim 7, wherein the control device and the brake system are configured such that information in the sensor system is transmittable to the brake system by the control device.

9. The control arrangement as claimed in claim 7, wherein at least one of the light system and the sensor system is connected to the control device via at least one of a bus and at least one individual wiring system.

10. The control arrangement as claimed in claim 7, wherein the sensor system comprises at least one of a distance sensor, a door switching contact and a temperature sensor.

11. The control arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the light system comprises at least one of a brake light, a reversing light, a turn signal, a warning light, a clearance lamp and a side marker light.

12. The control arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the brake system is an electronic brake system.

13. A trailer vehicle, comprising a control arrangement as claimed in claim 1.