Patent ID: 8875848

Claim:
A method of displacing and storing brake fluid for a hydraulic brake system of a vehicle, the brake system having at least one hydraulic accumulator, at least one controllable brake booster and at least one brake circuit, comprising: automatically actuating the brake booster to displace the brake fluid into the hydraulic accumulator and store the brake fluid in the hydraulic accumulator; and selectively emptying, by the hydraulic accumulator, at least a portion of the stored brake fluid into the brake circuit as a function of the operating state of the brake system; wherein the brake circuit includes at least one wheel brake having a gap between a brake pad and a brake disk, and at least a portion of the stored brake fluid is emptied by the hydraulic accumulator into the brake circuit to reduce the gap between the brake pad and the brake disk; wherein the gap is reduced until a characteristic increase in a variable representing a load of the brake booster is detected.