Patent ID: 8366211

Claim:
An electric parking brake control apparatus, comprising: an electric parking brake actuator that pulls cables connected to respective parking brake units of wheels; a brake actuator that controls braking pressures applied to the wheels by service brakes; a pressure-increase control unit that controls the brake actuator such that when a tension of the cables falls below a predetermined first target tension after the electric parking brake actuator pulls the cables to the first target tension, the pressure increase control unit increases the braking pressures applied to the wheels by service brakes to a predetermined value; and a tension-increase control unit that sets a second target tension greater than the first target tension and controls the electric parking brake actuator to pull the cables until the tension of the cables reaches the second target tension, wherein the cables are pulled to maintain the second target tension after the tension of the cables falls below the first target tension and after the braking pressures applied to the wheels by service brakes are increased to the predetermined value by the pressure-increase control unit.