Patent ID: 9566961
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: B60T

Claim:
1. A method for operating a braking apparatus carried out by an electronic control unit, the method comprising the steps of: applying braking force to a brake application element by way of a hydraulic pressure generator; applying braking force to the brake application element by way of an electromechanical force generator acting on an actuating element of the brake application element, wherein the braking force applied at the brake application element is composed of the braking force applied by the hydraulic pressure generator and brake force applied by the electromechanical force generator; and determining, in the electronic control unit, that the brake force applied by the electromechanical force generator alone is at least as high as the brake force applied solely by the hydraulic pressure generator; and transferring the application of brake force from the hydraulic pressure generator to the electromechanical force generator as soon as the determination is made that the brake force applied by the electromechanical force generator alone is at least as high as the brake force applied solely by the hydraulic pressure generator.