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US 8,840,196 B2Granted
Brake system for a motor vehicle
AssigneeContinental Teves AG & Co. oHG
InventorsMichael Hitzel, Michael Jung, Bernhard Hauke, Ronald Kley, Stefan A. Schmitt
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Abstract
A brake system for a motor vehicle which simplifies the hydraulic design and avoids a vacuum prevailing over a relatively long period of time. The first hydraulic unit has a suction volume, which is connected to the suction side of the pump and which, in the event of a change in the pressure on the suction side of the pump, provides a pressure and volume equalization by means of the brake fluid stored in the suction volume, with an elastic element.
Claims10
A brake system for a motor vehicle comprising:
- a brake pressure-generating means, with or without power-assistance, with a non-pressurized storage reservoir, wherein the brake pressure-generating means is connected to a human-machine interface, which by way of a brake fluid serves for generating hydraulic brake pressure for brake devices;
- a first hydraulic unit for connecting the brake pressure-generating means to the brake devices of a first axle, which is equipped with an electric motor, and for transmitting the hydraulic brake pressure through the brake fluid, wherein the first hydraulic unit is electro-hydraulically controllable and operable independently of the brake pressure generated by the brake pressure-generating means;
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- a second hydraulic unit for connecting the brake pressure-generating means to the brake devices of a second axle, and for transmitting the hydraulic pressure through the brake fluid;
- a pump with a high-pressure side and a suction side,
- wherein the first hydraulic unit comprises a suction volume, which is connected to the suction side of the pump and which, in an event of a change in the pressure on the suction side of the pump and by way of the brake fluid stored in the suction volume, together with an elastic element, creates a first compensation for a negative pressure resulting from the change in the pressure on the suction side of the pump,
- wherein the suction volume is uninterruptedly connected to the storage reservoir by way of a communicating connecting line, wherein a subsequent compensation created by the storage reservoir occurs over a time period longer than the first compensation created by the suction volume and the elastic element;
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- wherein a brake fluid reservoir is provided as the suction volume, and the brake fluid reservoir comprises the elastic element.
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