Patent ID: 7461905

Claim:
An integral brake for a motorbike, comprising a handbrake lever, a handbrake cylinder which can be activated using the handbrake lever, a first hydraulic brake device which acts on the front wheel, a first line which connects the handbrake cylinder to the first hydraulic brake device, a first pressure sensor which measures the activation pressure of the first hydraulic brake device, a footbrake lever, a footbrake cylinder which can be activated using the footbrake lever, a second hydraulic brake device which acts on the rear wheel, a second line which connects the footbrake cylinder to the second hydraulic brake device, a third hydraulic brake device which acts on the front wheel, a third line which connects the footbrake cylinder to the third hydraulic brake device, a second pressure sensor which measures the activation pressure of the second hydraulic brake device, a third pressure sensor which measures the activation pressure of the third hydraulic brake device, a fourth pressure sensor which measures the pressure generated by the footbrake cylinder, a pressure modulator which is assigned to the second and third lines, an electronic control unit in which the theoretical deceleration values corresponding to the pressures generated using the handbrake cylinder or using the footbrake cylinder and the optimum distribution—necessary to achieve these theoretical deceleration values—of the braking forces acting on the front wheel and rear wheel and the braking pressures which are necessary for this are stored, where the electronic control unit controls the pressure modulator in accordance with the signal supplied by the four pressure sensors in order to adjust the activation pressures of the second and third hydraulic brake devices to the programmed values.