Patent ID: 6582030
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: B60T

Abstract:
An electro-hydraulic braking system which operates normally in a brake-by-wire mode wherein hydraulic pressure is applied to braking devices at the vehicle wheels in proportion to the driver's braking demand as sensed electronically at a brake pedal, and which, if the brake-by-wire mode should fail, operates in a push-through mode wherein hydraulic pressure is applied to the braking devices at the vehicle wheels by way of a master cylinder coupled mechanically to the brake pedal, the system also including an electric parking braking means for enabling the braking devices to be acts for parking braking purposes, but which is also arranged to be actuated to supplement push-through braking in the event of failure of the brake-by-wire mode, the system being such that electro-hydraulic braking at the rear axle of the vehicle is allowed only when a control unit of the electro-hydraulic braking system has confirmation that the electric parking braking means is in a satisfactory operational state.