Patent ID: 8042887

Claim:
A brake control apparatus for controlling a plurality of brakes of a vehicle having a plurality of wheels, the apparatus comprising: a stopped-state detecting portion which detects, based on a speed of at least one of the wheels detected by at least one wheel-speed sensor, a stopped state of the vehicle; an operation-force limiting portion which limits, based on a detection of the stopped state of the vehicle by the stopped-state detecting portion, an operation force of at least one of the brakes, such that an upper limit of the operation force is an intermediate level of an operation-force range used when the stopped state is not detected; a sensor ignoring portion which ignores said at least one wheel-speed sensor, when an electric voltage supplied from a power source to said at least one wheel-speed sensor is not higher than a reference value; a limitation canceling portion which cancels a limitation of the operation force by the operation-force limiting portion, when the sensor ignoring portion ignores said at least one wheel-speed sensor; and a rapid-change restraining portion which restrains a rapid change of the operation force caused by a cancellation of the limitation of the operation force by the limitation canceling portion.