1. A brush seal assembly comprising:
a first annular plate including a recess, said recess including at least three faces, and further including a projection extending in an axial direction;
a second annular plate including a substantially flat face region located on a radially outer portion of the second plate, the first plate further including at least one retaining element for engaging the second plate to hold the plates together such that the recess of the first plate faces the flat face region of the second plate and forms a radially outer chamber opening into a radially inner annular slot defined by and between the plates; and
an annular brush seal having bristles and a root portion, said root portion positioned in the recess at one side and engaged by the flat face region on an opposing side;
wherein the projection directly contacts the bristles, locally squeezing the bristles against the flat face region on the second plate to hold the bristles.
2. The brush seal of claim 1, wherein the root portion is asymmetric.
3. The brush seal of claim 1, wherein the at least one retaining element comprises a plurality of extensions, said extensions engaging the second plate.
4. The brush seal of claim 3, wherein the second plate further comprises an inclined shoulder for engaging the extension.
5. The brush seal of claim 1, wherein a portion of the substantially flat face both engages the root portion and is part of the periphery of the second annular plate.
6. The brush seal assembly of claim 1, wherein the portion of the second plate forming the radially outer chamber consists of the flat face region.
7. The brush seal assembly of claim 1, wherein the radially outer chamber includes a perimeter consisting of the three faces of the recess, the flat face region of the second plate, and a portion of the annular slot opening into the radially outer chamber.
8. The assembly of claim 1, wherein two of the at least three faces of the first annular plate are parallel and face one another; and
wherein the annular slot includes parallel and radially extending walls facing one another.
9. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the recess if formed by the entirety of the at least three faces.
10. The assembly of claim 1, wherein one of the at least three faces of the recess at least partially forms a surface of the projection extending in an axial direction.
11. A brush seal assembly comprising:
a pair of annular plates defining an annular slot with generally parallel sides and a radially outer chamber between said plates, one of said plates including at least one extension engaging the other of said plates to form the assembly; and
an annular brush seal including bristles that extend through the annular slot, and further including a root portion contained within the radially outer chamber,
wherein only one of the plates contains a recess including three faces for forming the chamber, and wherein the chamber is formed at a periphery of the plate without the recess; and
wherein the plate with the recess further includes a projection extending in an axial direction, directly contacting the bristles, and locally squeezing the bristles against a flat region on the second plate to hold the bristles.
12. The assembly of claim 11, wherein the other of the plates has a peripheral face opposing the recess.
13. The brush seal of claim 11, wherein the first plate includes the extension.
14. The brush seal of claim 13, wherein the second plate further comprises an inclined shoulder for engaging the extension.
15. The brush seal of claim 11, wherein the plate with the extension engaging the other plate further includes at least one second extension.
16. The brush seal assembly of claim 12, wherein the radially outer chamber includes a perimeter consisting of the three faces of the recess, the peripheral face of the other plate, and a portion of the annular slot opening into the radially outer chamber.
17. A brush seal assembly comprising:
a first L-shaped annular plate with two legs, said plate including a recess with at least three faces and further including a projection extending in an axial direction;
a second L-shaped annular plate including at least one substantially flat face region extending to a radially outer portion of the second plate; and
an annular brush seal having bristles and a root portion, said root portion positioned in the recess at one side and engaged by the flat face on an opposing side;
wherein one leg of the first plate engages the second plate to hold the plates together such that the recess of the first plate faces the flat face region of the second plate and forms a radially outer chamber opening into an annular slot defined by and between the plates; and
wherein the projection directly contacts the bristles and locally squeezes the bristles against the flat face region on the second L-shaped plate to hold the bristles.
18. The brush seal assembly of claim 17, wherein the radially outer chamber includes a perimeter consisting of three faces of the recess, the substantially flat face region of the second plate, and a portion of the annular slot opening into the radially outer chamber.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A brake control apparatus for a vehicle having brake means for applying braking forces to wheels using respective brake friction members, the brake control apparatus comprising:
brake control means for individually controlling displacements of the brake friction members;
storing means for storing drive data required for controlling the displacements;
a vehicle-driving-state detector for detecting a physical value that indicates a driving state of the vehicle; and
a vehicle controller for controlling the driving state of the vehicle using the brake control means for each wheel on the basis of the detected physical value,
wherein the vehicle controller acquires control data as a result of controlling the driving state of the vehicle with the brake means, corrects the drive data stored in the storing means using the acquired control data, and updates the drive data stored in the storing means.
2. A brake control apparatus for a vehicle having brake means for applying braking forces to wheels using respective brake friction members, the brake control apparatus comprising:
brake control means for individually controlling displacements of the brake friction members;
storing means for storing drive data required for controlling the displacements;
a vehicle-driving-state detector for detecting a physical value that indicates a driving state of the vehicle; and
a vehicle controller for controlling the driving state of the vehicle using the brake control means for each wheel on the basis of the detected physical value,
wherein the vehicle controller acquires control data as a result of causing the brake means to perform a predetermined operation while the vehicle is stationary, corrects the drive data stored in the storing means using the acquired control data, and updates the drive data stored in the storing means.
3. A brake control apparatus for a vehicle having brake means for applying braking forces to wheels using respective brake friction members, the brake control apparatus comprising:
brake control means for individually controlling displacements of the brake friction members;
storing means for storing drive data required for controlling the displacements;
a vehicle-driving-state detector for detecting a physical value that indicates a driving state of the vehicle; and
a vehicle controller for controlling the driving state of the vehicle using the brake control means for each wheel on the basis of the detected physical value,
wherein the vehicle controller acquires control data as a result of controlling the driving state of the vehicle with the brake means and also acquires control data as a result of causing the brake means to perform a predetermined operation while the vehicle is stationary, and
wherein the vehicle controller corrects the drive data stored in the storing means using the acquired control data, and updates the drive data stored in the storing means.
4. The brake control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle controller acquires the control data on the basis of a pressing force applied to each wheel after vehicle-stabilizing control, the vehicle-stabilizing control being performed when a yaw angular velocity is equal to or more than a predetermined value during brake control performed in response to a brake command.
5. The brake control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the vehicle controller receives a correction command signal for correcting the drive data, performs a pressing-force increasingdecreasing operation of increasing and decreasing a pressing force applied to each wheel after confirming that the vehicle is stationary, and then acquires the control data based on a motor current obtained as a result of the pressing-force increasingdecreasing operation.
6. The brake control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the drive data is corrected and updated at the time when legally required inspections of the vehicle is performed.
7. The brake control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle controller receives a travel distance of the vehicle from a travel-distance detector and issues a warning that the drive data is to be corrected and updated when the total travel distance reaches a predetermined value.
8. The brake control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the drive data includes characteristic data representing the relationship between a motor position and a pressing force applied to a brake pad.
9. The brake control apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the correction of the drive data is performed when a predetermined time is elapsed after the start of the vehicle-stabilizing control, when a steering angle during braking performed by the brake means is less than a predetermined value, and when a variation width of the yaw angular velocity during the vehicle-stabilizing control is less than a predetermined value.
10. The brake control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the brake means includes a motor and a piston for each wheel, the motor generating a driving force to move the piston, the movement of the piston causing the corresponding brake friction member to come into contact with a rotating member that rotates together with the wheel, and
wherein the drive data is characteristic data representing the relationship between data of displacement of the piston and data of pressing force applied between the brake friction member and the rotating member.