Fluid-pressure and analogous brake systems inventions 02/08

20080048491 - Brake control system: A brake control system includes a plurality of fluid channels communicating from a hydraulic pressure source to a reservoir for controlling brake hydraulic pressures supplied to respective brake calipers by a plurality of hydraulic pressure control valves arranged in the respective fluid channels, wherein valve drive circuits for controlling the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080048492 - Actuator for controlling brake fluid pressure: An actuator installed in a vehicle controls brake fluid pressures applied respectively to a first wheel cylinder for a front wheel and a second wheel cylinder for a rear wheel. The actuator includes a first pump for the front wheel, a second pump for the rear wheel, and a motor... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080048493 - Braking assembly for a land vehicle: A brake unit for a hydraulic, single-circuit or multi-circuit braking system of a land vehicle, with fluid on-off valves to be operated electrically, an electronic closed-loop/open-loop control circuit to provide control signals for the fluid on-off valves by which the hydraulic pressure in the brake circuits is modulated, a unit... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080042488 - Hydraulic braking power unit: A hydraulic pump unit that includes a pump and an internal reservoir that is mountable as a unit to a towed vehicle. The hydraulic pump unit can be assembled in a plurality of configurations such that an inlet to the pump is located at a relatively low point within the... Agent: Don W. Bulson (parker Hannifin) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080042489 - Driver feedback to improve vehicle performance: A system for a hybrid vehicle driver by an operator, comprising of an energy storage device, a regenerative braking system coupled to the energy storage device, a dissipative braking system coupled to the vehicle, a brake lever, a haptic operator interface, and a control system for operating one or both... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20080036291 - Braking pressure control unit for vehicle braking system: In braking pressure control unit for a vehicle braking system, a space is formed, which is neighboring to electric brushless motors and arranged at ends of electromagnetic valves in a direction of a motor shaft of the electric motor. A printed circuit board for a motor driving circuit and a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080036292 - Braking pressure control unit for vehicle braking system: In a braking pressure control unit for a vehicle braking system, an electric motor is arranged at one side of a hydraulic pressure control block, while electromagnetic valves and an electronic control unit are arranged at the other side of thereof. A connector portion to be connected with an external... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080036294 - Brake control apparatus: A brake control apparatus for controlling brakes of a vehicle having wheels, the apparatus including 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... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080036293 - Control apparatus of motor for anti-skid control: A control apparatus of a motor for anti-skid control includes calculating device for calculating a vehicle body deceleration corresponding value that is a value corresponding to a vehicle body deceleration of the vehicle during an anti-skid control is executed, controlling device for: determining a target speed of a motor and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080036295 - Brake hydraulic pressure control unit for vehicle: A brake hydraulic pressure control unit includes motors mounted on one end of a hydraulic block so as to be aligned along a vertical direction. Each motor drives one of two sets of pumps. Solenoid valves and an electronic control unit are provided at the other end of the hydraulic... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080036296 - Closed-loop control for trailer sway mitigation: A method, and a system using the method, of controlling a towing vehicle that is connected to a vehicle trailer. The method includes sensing a set of vehicle targets and a set of vehicle conditions in response to the set of vehicle targets. The method also includes determining a plurality... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080030068 - Electrically controlled brake system: An electrically controlled brake system 10 for a tractor is provided that is equipped with an anti-jackknifing brake that can be actuated by means of a manual operating element and that acts only on the brakes of a trailer coupled to the tractor. The operating element is an electrical element... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20080030069 - Aircraft electrical brake control system architecture: An electric brake system architecture for an aircraft with two or more electrical braking subsystems including brake system controls configured to communicate pilot pedal commands to electric brake actuator controllers that apply or release brakes in wheel groups. The system allows independent brake activation of wheel groups through a plurality... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (boeing)

20080030070 - Control valve: A configurable control valve for use with air brake systems is provided. This control valve includes: a first or top body portion, a second or bottom body portion, and a connector for attaching the first body portion to the second body portion. The first body portion may include an actuator... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080030071 - Compressed air treatment device that is designed to be installed in an industrial vehicle: A compressed air treatment device is designed to be installed in an industrial vehicle consisting of a motor vehicle that can pull a trailer. The device comprises a set of electropneumatic components that are controlled by an electronic command/control unit which is interfaced with a computer communication bus and with... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080030072 - Method and apparatus for positioning a reservoir-mounted component: An improved configuration for a vehicle system having a brake system component mounted to an air reservoir and an apparatus for positioning or leveling the brake system component relative to a reference point. The apparatus may include a first end portion having one or more contact points for engaging the... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080030073 - The determination of runway landing conditions: The invention discloses differing embodiments of methods, aircraft, and apparatus for determining the landing conditions of a runway. In one embodiment, braking data may be collected from an aircraft which has landed on the runway; a braking performance measurement of the aircraft may be calculated based on the braking data;... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP And The Boeing Company

20080030074 - Automatic reacting for all sorts of devices: Automatic reacting is to react automatically or in a better manner to replace manual operation by thermostat, video camera, radar, all kinds of sensors including reacting proximate sensor, touch sensor, speedometer, motor, switch, timer and/or any other equivalents for making useful devices.... Agent: Henri Duong