Abstract:
This device, which is intended for vehicles equipped with a brake system comprising a pneumatic brake booster (1) and a master cylinder (2), enables the braked vehicle to be held back on an upslope. It comprises an inclinometric valve (12) which under certain conditions prevents the booster (1) from returning to its position of rest.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a brake regulator interposable between a hydraulic pressure source and a motor-vehicle brake circuit, of the type comprising a housing equipped with a bore, a simple or differential piston sliding in the bore and delimiting there a first (18) and a second (20) pressure chamber capable of being connected to the pressure source and to the brake circuit respectively, the chambers (18, 20) communicating with one another by means of a passage made in the piston, a valve mounted in the passage and stretched elastically to bear sealingly against a seat formed on the piston, and a return boring interposed between a movable element, the position of which varies as a function of the load of the vehicle, and the piston, so as to stress the latter toward the bottom of the second chamber (20), in a rest position in which the valve is set apart from its seat by a stop (30). The bottom (15) of the second chamber (20) assumes a reentrant shape, the piston (16) comprises a tab (44) projecting opposite the substantially lowest part (13) of the bottom (15), and the stop (30) mounted movably relative to the bottom (15) rests on the bop of a preformed washer (40) forming a lever when the tab (44) bears on it.
Abstract:
The circuit controlls a fluidically controlled brake regulator (7) in dependence on the load of a vehicle having at least two wheels each provided with a suspension member (1, 2). Each suspension member (1, 2) cooperates with a fluidic pressure sensor (11, 12) to control the regulator (7) in dependence on the load carried by only one of the wheels, namely the wheel carrying the lighter load.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a brake subassembly for a vehicle having an engine compartment and a passenger cell separated by a bulkhead (46), the subassembly comprising: a pneumatic boost servomotor controlled by way of a pedal (28) and intended to be fixed to the bulkhead (46), the servomotor comprising, coaxially, a front shell (14), having a cylindrical wall, and a rear cover (16) and having, on the inside, two chambers (18, 20) separated in leaktight fashion by a piston (22) provided with a diaphragm (26) ensuring leaktightness between the two chambers, a master cylinder (10) fixed to the front shell (14) and at least one brake pedal (28). According to the invention, the shell (14) and the cover (16) are each provided with a radial peripheral rim, the rim (52) of the cover bearing directly on that (50) of the shell, which bears on the bulkhead (460 on the passenger-cell side; the cover (16) has a circular centering tongue (56), which projects into the servomotor and the inner end of which comes to compress radially the peripheral end of the diaphragm (26) on the cylindrical wall of the shell (14), and a plurality of mutually parallel ribs (36) which project from its exterior wall and certain of which (34) constitute support pieces (34) for the pivot (32) of the pedal (28).
Abstract:
The instantaneous load sensor of a motor vehicle is incorporated in a suspension assembly of the vehicle, and comprises a suspension element (1) fastened via an elastic mechanism (3) to a rod (5) carried by a yoke (7). The rod (5) is a blind hollow tube, in which a slot (12) has been made substantially in the axis of the suspension element (1) and opposite the latter, so as to allow the elastic mechanism (3) to penetrate into the tube (5), a sensor (10) of the pressure prevailing in the tube hermetically closing the open end of the tube.
Abstract:
A brake booster apparatus having a housing with oppositely disposed first and second walls. A first connector is disposed in the first wall and a second connector is disposed in the second wall. An elongate hollow member is deformationally engaged to each of the first and second connectors. The various embodiments of the invention include embodiments wherein the hollow member is deformed to engage the hollow member and connectors and embodiments wherein the first and second connectors are deformed to engage the hollow member and connectors. The deformational engagement mechanically attaches and sealingly engages the hollow member with each of the first and second connectors. The hollow member defines a passage through the apparatus from the first wall to the second wall of the housing. A method of manufacturing a brake booster is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A boosted braking device having a master cylinder and a pneumatic booster wherein the force for actuating the master cylinder is derived from a combination of an input force and a boost force of the booster. A main hydraulic piston of the master cylinder has a holler cylinder for receiving the input force. A secondary hydraulic piston located within the holler cylinder of the main hydraulic piston receives a hydraulic reaction force to impart an increasing braking force corresponding to an input force applied over an entire travel of a brake pedal.
Abstract:
This three-way pneumatic solenoid valve comprises: a first inlet (1) connected to a first pressure source (A); a second inlet (2) connected to a second pressure source (D); an outlet (3) connected to a chamber at controlled pressure (C); a hollow body (4) into which t here emerges each of the paths so as to be set in communication therein in a selective fashion with at least one other path; and an electromagnet (5) secured to the body and including a core plunger (5a) capable of actuating means suitable for establishing the selective communication.The latter essentially comprise a stationary valve (6) and a movable valve (7) housed in the hollow body, the stationary valve being capable of being open when the movable valve is closed and vice-versa, and these valves being defined by a shaft (60), a tubular and movable stopper member (67), and a sealed surface (70) actuated by the electromagnet.This solenoid valve makes it possible to control the pressure in the chamber (C) as a function of the pressures of the first and second sources, in proportion to a control current signal from the electromagnet.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a double brake booster for a motor vehicle, provided with a valve enabling the boost ratio to be varied as a function of the load of the vehicle. In addition to two pistons (64, 66) articulated to an arm (72), this valve comprises a pusher (80) driven by a third piston (68), to a first face of which is applied a first force representative of the load of the vehicle and to a second face of which is applied a second force of elastic nature, in opposition to the first, this third piston adopting, under the effect of the first and second forces, an equilibrium position which determines that of a variable bearing point for the lever which constitutes the arm (72). Moreover, the arm, the pusher and the three pistons are mounted in the same body, the arm and the pusher being housed in a single cavity (74) which is defined in this body and subjected to a low pressure, and toward which the second faces of the three pistons are turned.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a pneumatic brake-booster comprising, in series, a control rod (10) substantially fixed to a plunger (12) by a pivot mechanism (14), a reaction disk (16) and a push rod (18), the control rod (10) actuating a three-way valve with two seats (24, 26), s specific space being provided at rest between the reaction disk (16) and the plunger (12). According to the invention, one of the two seats of the valve consists of the end of a sleeve (30) coaxial with the plunger (12), a prestressed compressible mechanism (32) tending to shift the sleeve (30) and plunger (12) axially away from one another, the sleeve (30) coming axially up against one end of a piece (36) fixed to the control rod (10) after the relative positions have been set.