US Patent Issued to ZF Active Safety on July 15 for "Method for operating a force-sensor-less electromechanical service brake of a vehicle and a brake system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,483, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZF Active Safety GmbH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Method for operating a force-sensor-less electromechanical service brake of a vehicle and a brake system" was invented by Andreas Marx (Hartenfels, Germany) and Fabian Querbach (Lonnig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for operating a force-sensor-less electromechanical service brake in a brake system of a vehicle, a current value of a braking contact point and a current profile of a force-displacement characteristic of the electromechanical service brake are determined as a function of the total rotation angle of a shaft of an electr...