Patent ID: 9085288
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: B60T

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a brake assistance system in a vehicle, the method comprising: determining whether a braking operation is an emergency braking situation, including sensing a braking pressure being applied to a brake pedal: determining a braking pressure gradient of the braking pressure; evaluating at least one factor relating to a driving situation, the one factor being the likelihood of a collision, based on information obtained from at least one of a camera-, infrared-, or a radar-based sensor system, or the ambient temperature, employing a temperature sensor system, to determine whether that factor indicates an emergency braking situation; upon evaluating the driving situation factor as indicating an emergency braking situation, adjusting a braking pressure threshold value, including multiplying the braking pressure threshold value by a first factor derived from a ratio of a brake lining coefficient of friction at a determined external temperature to a brake lining coefficient of friction at a specifiable first reference temperature, the resulting braking pressure threshold value being a value between 10 bar and 30 bar; and reducing a braking pressure gradient threshold value, including multiplying the braking pressure gradient threshold value by a second factor derived from a ratio of a brake fluid viscosity value at the determined external temperature to brake fluid viscosity value at a specifiable second reference temperature, the resulting braking pressure gradient threshold value being a value between one third and half of the braking pressure gradient threshold value identifying the braking operation as an emergency braking situation if both the braking pressure and the braking pressure gradient exceed the adjusted braking pressure threshold value and the adjusted braking pressure gradient threshold value; and upon an identification of the braking operation as an emergency braking situation, activating an emergency braking cycle.