Brake system for a motor vehicle

Details Brake system for a motor vehicle Brake system for a motor vehicle

1995-06-20

1996-07-02

Butler, Douglas C.

Fluid-pressure and analogous brake systems

Multiple fluid-receiving devices

Multiple motors

188 16, 188151A, 188354, 303 601, 303 15, 303 20, B60T 1120, B60T 1368, B60T 1722, B62D 1108

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ABSTRACT:
A brake system for a motor vehicle selectively brakes single or multiple wheels. The brake system includes a hydraulic master cylinder which is actuated by a brake pedal and which is connected by an electrically controlled valve arrangement to hydraulically operated brakes on both sides of the vehicle. The brake system also includes an electric switching device for controlling the valve arrangement in order to selectively connect the master cylinder with the brakes of both sides of the vehicle or with a brake on one side of the vehicle The electrical switching device includes a manually operated, spring centered rocker switch which can be switched from a central position into two deflected positions.

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Patent Abstracts of Japan, vol. 012, No. 061, 24 Feb. 1988.

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