Brake system for a vehicle
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorAndreas Birkheim
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Abstract
A brake system for a vehicle includes a main brake cylinder which has a first chamber which is hydraulically connected to at least one wheel brake cylinder for braking a wheel of the vehicle; an activating device for the driver to mechanically act on a piston of the main brake cylinder in order to pressurize hydraulic fluid in the first chamber of the main brake cylinder; and a pressure generating device which is hydraulically connected to the first chamber of the main brake cylinder, and which for activating the wheel brake cylinder supplies the wheel brake cylinder with hydraulic fluid through the first chamber of the main brake cylinder.
Claims10
A brake system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a main brake cylinder having a first chamber hydraulically connected to at least one wheel brake cylinder for braking a wheel of the vehicle;
- an activating device adapted to be acted on by a driver of the vehicle, wherein in response to being acted on by the driver, the activating device acts on a piston of the main brake cylinder in order to pressurize hydraulic fluid in the first chamber of the main brake cylinder;
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- a pressure generating device hydraulically connected to the first chamber of the main brake cylinder, wherein the pressure generating device supplies the wheel brake cylinder with hydraulic fluid through the first chamber of the main brake cylinder to activate the wheel brake cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.