Patent ID: 8540323

Claim:
An electronically controlled braking device of a towing vehicle-trailer combination, comprising: a generating arrangement to generate at least one brake request signal; an electronic towing vehicle brake control unit associated with the towing vehicle for generating brake pressure setpoint value signals for at least one electro-pneumatic pressure control module of the towing vehicle as a function of the brake request signal; a data link between the towing vehicle and the trailer; at least one electro-pneumatic pressure control module associated with the trailer for controlling a trailer brake pressure; and a braking value sensor to generate the at least one brake request signal as a function of a driver command; wherein the data link is for direct communication between the towing vehicle brake control unit and the at least one electro-pneumatic pressure control module of the trailer, and wherein the towing vehicle brake control unit and the data link are for directly inputting control signals into the at least one electro-pneumatic pressure control module of the trailer for generating the trailer brake pressure at least as a function of the brake request signal, so that no electronic trailer vehicle brake control unit is needed since the control signals are directly input from the electronic towing vehicle brake control unit into the at least one pressure control module of the trailer.