Master brake cylinder for a hydraulic vehicle brake system
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsStefan Kaserer, Andreas Weh, Matthias Mayr
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Abstract
A hydraulic block of a slip regulation system of a hydraulic external force vehicle brake system that has a master brake cylinder bore and forms a master brake cylinder. In order to prevent a hard impact of a master brake cylinder piston on an end stop when the master brake cylinder is released, in particular when there is a sudden release, for example when the driver's foot slips off the brake pedal, the present invention provides a hydraulic return flow damper that is integrated in the master brake cylinder piston.
Claims9
A master brake cylinder for a hydraulic vehicle brake system, comprising:
- a master brake cylinder bore, in which a first master brake cylinder piston is axially displaceable;
- a hydraulic return flow damper that dampens a return movement of the first master brake cylinder piston in a direction of an unactuated position in the master brake cylinder bore, wherein the return flow damper has a return flow damper cylinder and a return flow damper piston that divides the return flow damper cylinder into two chambers;
- wherein one of the return flow damper cylinder or the return flow damper piston is connected to the first master brake cylinder piston, and wherein another one of the return flow damper piston or the return flow damper cylinder is connected to the master brake cylinder or to a further master brake cylinder piston, so that a displacement of the first master brake cylinder piston in the master brake cylinder displaces the return flow damper piston in the return flow damper cylinder, so that volumes of the two chambers in the return flow damper cylinder change in opposite directions, and
- wherein the return flow damper includes a first check valve through which brake fluid can flow from one of the two chambers, whose volume becomes smaller when there is a displacement of the first master brake cylinder piston in the master brake cylinder in a direction of actuation, into another of the two chambers, and wherein one of the two chambers has a spring-loaded second check valve through which brake fluid can flow from the one chamber into the master brake cylinder and that acts as a throttle in a direction of flow.
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