Abstract:
In a tow vehicle-trailer braking system, a linkage arrangement for transmitting the output signal from a sensor to a control valve in response to an input force to operate a brake applying servomotor in the trailer. The output signal can be modified by an operator through a hand control to account for changes in weight in the trailer. In addition, when an anti-sway apparatus senses a centrifugal force adverse to the direction of travel, an actuation signal will be developed which will alleviate any harmonic movement in the trailer by momentarily applying the wheel brakes in the trailer.
Abstract:
A system of selectively controlling a plurality of proportioning valves through means of a computer control signal. The control signal is derived by dividing a first signal representative of the available fluid pressure output from a master cylinder by a second signal representative of the rate of change in speed of a vehicle. A plunger valve responsive to the control signal is moved to allow fluid to flow in a selected flow path. The fluid will activate the rear wheel brakes with a force proportional to the front wheel brakes to provide optimum braking during deceleration.
Abstract:
A servomotor for pressurizing wheel brakes of a braking system in response to an electrical operational signal. The electrical operational signal is created by a series of resistors which proportionally regulate the transmission of operational current to a solenoid. The solenoid will correspondingly exert an operational force through a push rod on a valve to develop the pressurization which will bring a desired rate of deceleration braking to the wheel brakes.
Abstract:
An adaptive braking system for an automotive vehicle is disclosed which includes a speed reacquisition feature which precludes termination of a brake pressure decay cycle until the controlled wheel attains a predetermined percentage of the angular velocity at which the wheel was rotating at the time that the decay cycle was initiated. The adaptive braking system includes the usual comparator which compares wheel acceleration to a predetermined reference level and generates a signal initiating a decay cycle when the wheel decelerates in excess of the reference level. The output signal of the comparator also enables a speed memory circuit which memorizes a predetermined percentage of the wheel speed. A comparator compares the instantaneous wheel speed during the decay cycle with the memorized value, and generates a signal which may maintain the decay cycle even though the wheel reaccelerates past an acceleration reference level which would normally terminate the decay cycle.
Abstract:
An adaptive braking system in which the speed of each wheel on an axle is independently sensed but the braking pressure of both axle wheels is controlled during adaptive braking by a single brake pressure modulator. Performance information from the wheel having the higher speed is used to determine when brake pressure should be reduced. Performance information from the wheel having the lower speed is used to determine when the brake pressure should be subsequently increased. If the ratio of the speed of the low speed wheel with respect to the speed of the high speed wheel drops below a predetermined level, the wheel having the higher speed controls adaptive braking.