Patent ID: 6135578
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: B60T

Abstract:
A method for carrying out an automatic braking operation for a motor-vehicle brake system with a manually operable brake-actuating device, the position of which determines the brake pressure during non-automatic normal braking, a control for the automatic braking operation and an anti-lock system (ABS) which detects when a lock-up limit of a wheel is reached, thereupon controls the brake pressure for the wheel and triggers the control for the automatic braking operation, comprising the steps ofactuating an automatic braking operation upon reaching a trigger criterion based at least on a condition that one or more wheels has reached a lock-up limit to control the brake pressure of at least one wheel not subjected to ABS control so as to increase the brake pressure independently of the manually operable brake-activating device, andduring the automatic braking operation, synchronously acting upon the at least one wheel not subjected to ABS control and the mechanical brake-actuating device such that the increased brake pressure for the at least one wheel not subjected to ABS control corresponds to the brake-pressure value represented by the respective instantaneous position of the mechanical brake-actuating device.