Patent ID: 7156472

Claim:
A brake control apparatus comprising: a brake pressure controlling unit including normally-open-type electromagnetic valves for preventing a fluid pressure transmitted from a master cylinder to wheel brakes when the valves close; and a control unit executing an anti-lock brake control resolving a lock tendency of the wheels by controlling the operation of the brake pressure controlling unit according to a result of judgment of the lock tendency of wheels, and simultaneously executing a brake force distribution control distributing front and rear brake forces by controlling the normally-open-type electromagnetic valves in correspondence with rear wheels to close in such a manner that the normally-open-type electromagnetic valves are opened when the brake force distribution control is finished; wherein the control unit finishes the brake force distribution control as a vehicle stops and after a frontward force applied to the vehicle is released and prior to a stop of the vehicle, wherein the control unit finishes the brake force distribution control after a predetermined time elapsed from when a wheel speed is reduced to be equal to or smaller than a predetermined wheel speed just before the vehicle stops, and wherein the predetermined time is 300 msec and the predetermined wheel speed is 2 km/h.