US 11,878,788 B2
Brake cooling system
Giovanni Franzini, Glanmire (IE); Konda Reddy Chevva, Ellington, CT (US); and Matthew Robert Pearson, Hartford, CT (US)
Assigned to GOODRICH CORPORATION, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed by Goodrich Corporation, Charlotte, NC (US)
Filed on Jul. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/371,188.
Claims priority of application No. 20185291 (EP), filed on Jul. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0009621 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. B64C 25/42 (2006.01); B60T 17/22 (2006.01); F16D 65/847 (2006.01); F16D 66/02 (2006.01); F16D 66/00 (2006.01)
CPC B64C 25/426 (2013.01) [B60T 17/221 (2013.01); F16D 65/847 (2013.01); F16D 66/027 (2013.01); B60T 2270/86 (2013.01); F16D 2066/001 (2013.01); F16D 2066/006 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of controlling cooling of a brake system, comprising:
determining a brake temperature;
obtaining a wear rate profile for the brake system indicative of wear rate in dependence on temperature; and
controlling activation of cooling of the brake system according to the wear rate profile;
wherein the activation of cooling is controlled according to a control variable determined according to the following optimization problem at each time instant t:

OG Complex Work Unit Math
such that T(τ)≤Tmax, τ∈[t,t+thor]
where:
w(T) is the brake wear rate as a function of its temperature T,
u is the control variable responsible for regulating the cooling
f (T, u, . . .) is a mathematical model describing the brake temperature evolution as a function of the same, of the cooling and of other variables,
Tmax is the maximum allowed brake temperature,
[t,t+thor] is the prediction horizon considered.