Patent ID: 7000998

Claim:
A brake control apparatus comprising: a master cylinder to produce a brake fluid pressure in response to a driver's braking operation; a brake actuating section connected with the master cylinder, to receive the brake fluid pressure from the master cylinder and to produce a braking force to brake a vehicle; a vehicle sensor to sense a vehicle condition; and a hill hold control section to initiate a hill hold control to hold the vehicle in a stopped state by the braking force produced by the brake actuating section even after an end of the driver's braking operation, at a hill hold start timing determined in accordance with a hill hold control start adjustment parameter determined from the vehicle condition sensed by the vehicle sensor when the vehicle is in the stopped state, wherein the hill hold control start adjustment parameter is a parameter indicative of a road gradient of a road on which the vehicle is stopped, and wherein the hill hold control section is configured to control the hill hold start timing in accordance with the hill hold control start adjustment parameter to advance the hill hold start timing in accordance with the road gradient.