Parking brake apparatus and method therefor
OwnerChristopher H Hutchins, Daniel P Zulainventors
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Abstract
A parking brake apparatus for a vehicle includes a parking brake controller controlling a parking brake system and arranged to obtain one or more input signals indicative of one or more actions from one or more vehicle systems other than the parking braking system. The parking brake controller is also arranged to provide one or more control signals to be applied to components of the parking brake system to apply parking brakes based upon an adaptive time delay to prevent a vehicle rollaway when the one or more input signals are indicative of the one or more actions meeting respective one or more predetermined conditions.
Claims3
A parking brake apparatus for a vehicle having components of a parking brake system, the parking brake apparatus comprising:
- a parking brake controller arranged to (i) obtain one or more input signals indicative of one or more actions from one or more vehicle systems other than the parking braking system, and (ii) provide one or more control signals to be applied to components of the parking brake system to apply parking brakes based upon an adaptive time delay to prevent a vehicle rollaway when the one or more input signals are indicative of the one or more actions meeting respective one or more predetermined conditions, wherein the one or more input signals indicative of one or more actions from one or more vehicle systems other than the parking braking system comprise (i) a first signal indicative of a hill start assist system being present on the vehicle, (ii) a second signal indicative of the hill start assist system being activated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.