Patent ID: 7419229

Claim:
A vehicle brake control apparatus, comprising: a controller configured to control an actual braking force of a vehicle to achieve a command braking force, the controller being configured, to determine a driver's demand braking force corresponding to a driver's braking operation of the vehicle; to calculate a target braking force independent of the driver's braking operation, to control the actual braking force of the vehicle in a brake control mode in a predetermined vehicle running state; to calculate a time rate of change of the target braking force; to calculate a time rate of change of the demand braking force; and to calculate the command braking force in the control mode in accordance with the time rate of change of the demand braking force and the time rate of change of the target braking force; wherein the controller is configured: to calculate the command braking force so that the command braking force remains greater than or equal to the target braking force in the brake control mode in the predetermined vehicle running state, and to increase the command braking force at an increase rate determined by the time rate of change of the demand braking force if the demand braking force is in an increasing state, and the increase rate determined by the time rate of change of the demand braking force is greater than an increase rate determined by the time rate of change of the target braking force.