Abstract:
The stabilizer of the present invention has a divided torsion bar, the parts of which can be controllably coupled together or separated from one another by a clutch arrangement. The clutch arrangement is switched to the operative condition when a relatively large transverse acceleration of the vehicle occurs or is anticipated. In this arrangement, the value of the transverse acceleration to be expected is preferably determined from the particular steering angle or the particular rate at which the steering angle changes as well as the particular driving speed by means of a computer controlling the clutch arrangement.
Abstract:
An antilocking system for a road vehicle with static brake circuits operates on the principle of pressure modulation when brake pressure changes demanded by the control system remain small by changing the volume of a pressure modulator modulation chamber, which can be connected and disconnected to the wheel brake via an inlet valve. If larger brake pressure changes are necessary, the antilocking system operates on the pump-back principle, according to which brake fluid is pumped back via an outlet non-return valve from the modulation chamber into an output pressure space of the brake unit of the brake installation and before a further brake pressure reduction takes place in response to a renewed increase in volume of the modulation chamber. To permit switching from the pressure modulation to pump-back operation, the inlet valve is designed as a spool valve mechanically controlled by a hydraulically driven step piston, which forms the movable boundary of the modulation chamber. The spool valve takes up its shut off position when the piston reaches an end position associated with the maximum volume of the modulation chamber and only resumes its position connecting the wheel brakes with the modulation chamber after the step piston has executed a minimum stroke specified by the arrangement of stops on the piston and the spool and thus cause a reduction in the volume of the modulation chamber.
Abstract:
A system for controlling at least one variable influencing the drive torque of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, with an electronic throttle control, an electronic ignition timing control and a control device which becomes active when there is a tendency to spin of at least one driven wheel. The instantaneous engine speed is stored and the drive torque reduced to a certain value, assigned to the engine speed, and subsequently increased again, at a rate of rise dependent on the engine speed, when the tendency of spin of the driven wheel subsides. Consequently, major excess torque are avoided and greater traction and lateral control force is achieved.
Abstract:
The proposed vehicle brake system includes a brake fluid pressure device embodied as a brake booster, front wheel brakes rear wheel brakes and an anti-skid apparatus having valves for maintaining, reducing and increasing brake pressure. One of the brake pressure maintenance valves is associated with the rear wheel brakes and is further developed into a valve combination, which additionally includes a brake pressure regulating valve. The valve combination includes only one valve seat and one valve element, which serves both for keeping braking pressure constant in the anti-skid situation and to limit the rear wheel braking pressures during braking. The valve element is controlled on one side by a control piston acted upon by brake pressure and on the other by an electromagnet.
Abstract:
An electromagnet directional valve assembly including a common base element with valve seats between fluid connections in sockets, valves each including a valve body and magnetic tube of valve actuator fluidically sealed to the sockets, a plurality of magnetic jackets separate from the valve actuator and joined in groups, and a cover plate joined to the base element for clamping the valves and jackets therebetween.
Abstract:
An arrangement for the switching of devices in motor vehicles, particularly for the changing of switching thresholds in driving or braking control systems or for the limiting of the steering angle of rear axle steering systems, as a function of snow chains that are in place on at least one wheel or the wheels of one axle that are detected by at least one sensor having an amplifier, an evaluating circuit and a threshold value switch that are connected behind it.
Abstract:
A propulsion control system for preventing an undesirable spinning of the vehicle wheels to be controlled, particularly of motor vehicles equipped with a multi-axle drive. The reference speed required for the slip threshold formation is formed from the speed of the uncontrolled driving wheels by an integration with a time constant derived from the longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle, by which a falsification of the reference speed signal is kept within limits in the case of a spinning of the uncontrolled wheels.
Abstract:
A propulsion control system for motor vehicles in the range of the cornering limit speed, having a memory in which the momentary steering angle value is stored when a certain steering angle change is not followed by a change of the lateral acceleration, having threshold value comparators in which the actual steering angle is compared with threshold values that depend on the stored steering angle value, and having logic for transmitting and stop transmitting a signal to a control element for the power reduction of the vehicle engine when the actual steering angle exceeds one threshold value and then falls below the other threshold value. The steering angle may also be replaced by the driving speed or by a combination of both quantities.
Abstract:
A method and an apparatus for controlling characteristic curves in a vehicle brake system having a hydraulic brake booster. At least one supplementary piston is incorporated in the output pressure lines forming preferably closed brake circuits of the brake booster, the supplementary piston being triggered in a regulated manner both for controlling or varying the characteristic curve for anti-skid braking pressure modulation. Optionally, in order to attain predetermined characteristic curve courses, modified travel magnitudes of the brake pedal actuation or of the booster piston are compared with the actual pressure in the brake circuits. The triggering is effected via the magnetic valves.
Abstract:
A wheel anti-blocking control system (ABS), in which, subsequent to a brake pressure drop, the first brake pressure rise pulse .DELTA.P.sub.2 is controlled, in dependence on the preceding brake pressure drop (.DELTA.P.sub.1) and on a quotient defined by the relationship: ##EQU1## in which +.omega..sub.m and -.omega..sub.m are representative of maximum angular acceleration/deceleration of the respective wheel being controlled and .alpha. is a factor somewhat less than unity, and which may vary in dependence on the direction of movement of the vehicle, for example whether the vehicle is moving in a straight path or is moving along a curve. If moving along a curve, so that angular acceleration is involved, the factor .alpha. is reduced.