Abstract:
A method and system for automatic braking is described. A service brake which can be operated electrically with a compressed air pressure and a parking brake which can be operated electrically are provided. When the vehicle stops due to the service brake being applied, the service brake is released and the parking brake is applied as a function of a release criterion. The release criterion includes the parking brake not being applicable manually because of a defect, and the operation of a control element for application of the parking brake.
Abstract:
The snowboarding wrist protection device described contains a grip having a generally cylindrical body around which a snowboarder's hand clenches to make a fist. The forward edge of the grip may contain ridges and the back edge of the grip may be convex to aid the snowboarder in holding the protection device. Additionally, the top and bottom portions of the grip may extend outwardly from the hand held portion of the grip to further aid secure holding of the device. In the event of a fall, the snowboarder's hand remains clenched around the protection device. As such, the hands and fingers are precluded from being outstretched and are therefore not subject to reverse extension injury.
Abstract:
A device for the automatic control of vehicular brake systems on hills, in order to allow the vehicle to remain stopped on a hill even after the brake pedal of the vehicle has been released. The device automatically releases the brakes when the driving torque produced by the engine against the wheel braking elements is equal to, or greater than, the opposite braking torque resulting from the slope of the hill. An electromechanical control valve is mounted to the brake system of the vehicle, in order to allow or block the release of the braking fluid pressure applied to the wheel braking elements upon the activation of the valve by a control unit, which receives information about the applied driving torque from a load sensor mounted to the braking elements of at least one wheel of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A total slip control system for a vehicle effects both the traction control and the anti-skid control. The traction control is effected by control of the engine output torque and application of brake to the driving wheel. The traction control is completely interrupted and the anti-skid control is initiated when the anti-skid control initiating condition is satisfied during the traction control in a high vehicle speed range lower than a predetermined value and the traction control by application of brake is interrupted with the traction control by control of the engine output torque continued and the anti-skid control is initiated when the anti-skid control initiating condition is satisfied during the traction control in a low vehicle speed range lower than the predetermined value.
Abstract:
In a combined booster and hydraulic master cylinder assembly the reservoir connection is adapted to serve as an inlet for high pressure fluid and by way of which the assembly can be operated independently of the pedal. High pressure fluid is supplied to the connection under the control of auxiliary control valve responsive to signals for a sensor. The sensor may be arranged to enable the assembly to be used in a variety of modes, for example for traction control, as a `hill holder`, and for remote control of the speed of the vehicle.
Abstract:
A hydraulic brake system with a master cylinder actuatable by a brake pedal (44) by the intermediary of a power booster (1) and with valve means interposed between the master cylinder (3) and the wheel brakes (18, 19, 20, 21) connected thereto. Pressure fluid can be removed from the brake circuits (13, 14) and replenished subsequently out of an auxiliary-pressure source (4, 52, 53). An auxiliary piston (38, 64) is located between the force-output member (2) of the power booster (1), on the one hand, and the piston (31, 36) of the master cylinder (3), on the other hand, for the purpose of generating a controlled pressure, at the end of which auxiliary piston close to the master cylinder piston (31, 36) a duct (49) is provided which is closable by a valve ball (41) that cooperates with the portion of the master cylinder piston (31) close to the auxiliary piston (38). Both the auxiliary piston (38) and the pedal-side portion of the master cylinder piston (31, 36) plunge into a piston chamber (50) which communicates via a first pressure-fluid conduit (54, 56) with an auxiliary pressure source (4). The duct (49) contained in the auxiliary piston (38) is by way of a second pressure-fluid conduit (47, 46, 56, 58) in communication with pressure-fluid supply reservoir (5) so that, after pressure build-up has been effected, the pressure fluid prevailing in the piston chamber (50) is permitted to discharge into a pressure-fluid supply reservoir (5).
Abstract:
A vehicle hill holder such as a wheel chock is disclosed comprising a pair of blocks which have opposable ends, one block having a pair of springs pivotally secured to opposite sides thereof that swing in a direction towards the second block. The free ends of the springs are removable insertable into a lever mounted on the second block, the fulcrum of the lever being in a plane above the base of the blocks and above the end of the first block where the springs are pivotally secured. The lever is depressed in an arc towards the base of the second block and thereby stretches the spring forcing the blocks towards one another to secure a wheel positioned between the blocks. The chocks are separated by raising the lever to release spring tension followed by removing the springs from the lever after which the blocks may be pulled apart from one another.
Abstract:
A non-skid brake control system for vehicles, particularly towed vehicles having electrically, pneumatically and/or hydraulically operated brakes controlled from the towing vehicle. A pair of braked wheels of the towed vehicle, one on each side of the vehicle, each have a speed sensing switch to sense the rate of rotation of the associated braked trailer wheel so as to provide anti-skid modulation to the associated brake when differential braking occurs between these braked wheels. The system automatically disables the anti-skid modulation when the vehicle speed is below an adjustable predetermined speed to thereby provide full braking effort under static, hill-holding or low speed conditions. Wheel speed sensing switch constructions are employed which utilize reed switches magnetically actuated by a permanent magnet carried on a centrifugally actuated flyweight mechanism. The anti-skid system may be further modulated by a vehicle speed sensing switch to prevent dual wheel lock-up above a given vehicle speed.
Abstract:
An adaptive fluid pressure braking system responsive to wheel deceleration and acceleration for cyclicly decreasing and increasing braking effort at optimum levels to prevent wheel lock-up and provide maximum deceleration. The system includes band control means responsive to a pair of pre-selected wheel acceleration levels whereby, instead of taking corrective action as soon as sensed, whenever wheel acceleration during a preceding cycle is less than the lower level or greater than the upper level, a signal is generated whereby corrective action is taken during the next cycle. Where maximum wheel acceleration falls between the pre-selected levels no corrective action signal is generated for the next cycle. The corrective action may comprise a greater rate of decrease in braking pressure during the next cycle or a lesser rate of decrease in pressure.
Abstract:
Electric motor consisting of a stator, a cylindrical rotor and a brake. Both the stator and the rotor are provided with windings and are in functional relation one to another. The rotor may turn inside the stator being separated from it by a small airgap. The rotor consists of two concentric parts, that is, a central conical core, without winding and an outer crown, including the rotor winding, and having an inner hollow of the same conicity as the central core, the central core entering and filling the inner hollow. One of the two rotor parts is fixed and the other one is free for a small axial shifting with respect to the first one, the other part being also fixedly attached to the brake movable part. When the motor is not connected to the supply, it is braked, a small inner airgap delta '' being thus formed between the two rotor parts. When the motor is connected to the supply, the two rotor parts are brought into contact, the brake is unlocked, and the motor operates as a normal motor.