Patent ID: 9056601
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: B60T

Abstract:
1. A brake apparatus comprising: a regenerative brake device applying a regenerative braking force to a wheel of a vehicle by generating electric power from rotation of the wheel according to a depressed position of a brake pedal; a hydraulic pressure generating device supplying a hydraulic fluid to a wheel cylinder when the brake pedal is depressed to at least a predetermined brake pedal position; and a pump mechanism delivering the hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic pressure generating device to the wheel cylinder by a pump; wherein the pump mechanism has already supplied the hydraulic fluid to the wheel cylinder when the brake pedal is depressed beyond a maximum regenerative braking pedal depressed position at which the regenerative brake device generates a maximum regenerative braking force, and wherein, in the hydraulic pressure generating device, the predetermined brake pedal position is set to a position where the brake pedal is depressed beyond the maximum regenerative braking pedal depressed position.