Patent ID: 9714014
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: B60T,F16D

Claim:
1. An electric brake apparatus comprising: an electric actuator configured to actuate a brake mechanism according to an actuation request signal; and an actuator controller configured to control an operation of the electric actuator with use of a power source mounted at a vehicle to perform control of a holding of braking and a release of braking by the brake mechanism, wherein, when a system recovers following interruption with a control state of an uncompleted control of the holding of braking or the release of braking by the brake mechanism after system down occurs and thus the electric actuator is stopped in a middle of the control of the holding of braking or the release of braking by the brake mechanism, the actuator controller is configured to maintain a state in which the electric actuator was stopped during the system down, until a new actuation request signal according to a signal from a parking brake switch after recovery of the system and/or according to a logic of determining whether to hold or release the braking by the brake mechanism is issued, and is further configured to control operation of the electric actuator according to a content of the new actuation request signal when the new actuation request signal is issued.