Patent ID: 8200406

Claim:
A method for reducing brake noise in a vehicle, the method executed by a brake control system including an electronic control unit and an actuator that controls a brake assembly that applies a braking torque to a wheel of the vehicle, the method comprising: determining, with the electronic control unit, if a current velocity of the vehicle is less than a velocity threshold; determining, with the electronic control unit, if a requested braking torque is between a first torque threshold and a second torque threshold; determining, with the electronic control unit, if the current braking torque applied to the wheel by the brake is changing; if the current velocity of the vehicle is less than the velocity threshold, the requested braking torque is between the first torque threshold and the second torque threshold, and the current braking torque applied to the wheel by the brake assembly is changing: determining, with the electronic control unit, a current braking torque applied to the wheel by the brake assembly, and outputting, with the electronic control unit, a first signal to the actuator instructing the actuator to control the brake assembly to continue to apply the current braking torque to the wheel; and if the current velocity of the vehicle is less than the velocity threshold, the requested braking torque is not between the first torque threshold and the second torque threshold, and the current braking torque applied to the wheel by the brake assembly is not changing: outputting, with the electronic control unit, a second signal to the actuator instructing the actuator to control the brake assembly to apply the requested braking torque to the wheel.