Patent ID: 7857400

Claim:
A decentralized electrical braking system, comprising: at least four sensors for sensing an actuation of a brake actuating device; at least four wheel-braking modules, each wheel-braking module being assigned to a corresponding vehicle wheel and acquiring sensor data and controlling braking of the corresponding vehicle wheel; at least one first communication device connecting all four wheel-braking modules to one another for exchange of data; an electrical connecting device for connecting each sensor to at least one wheel-braking module; and at least one of a second communication device and a third communication device for facilitating at least one of receiving and exchanging data between at least two wheel-braking modules associated with opposite lateral sides of the vehicle, wherein the first, second and third communication devices are discrete and are not directly connected to each other, wherein the second communication device connects only a front wheel-braking module of a first lateral side of the vehicle to only a rear wheel-braking module of a second lateral side of the vehicle, and the third communication device connects only a front wheel-braking module of the second lateral side of the vehicle to only a rear wheel-braking module of the first lateral side of the vehicle.