DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF

AUTOMEATIC HAND BRAKE

RELEASE USING PNEUMATIC
SYSTEM

A PROJECT REPORT

Submitted by

U.PRAKASH
R.RAGHAVENDAR
R.RANJITH
V.SANTHOSH KUMAR
In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree

Of

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
IN
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

MADHA ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHENNAI – 600069

ANNA UNIVERSITY: CHENNAI – 600025

APRIL 2018
 ANNA UNIVERSITY: CHENNAI – 600025
BONAFIDE CERTIFICATE
Certified that this project report “DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF
AUTOMATIC HAND BRAKE RELEASE USING PNEUMATIC
SYSTEM” is the bonafide work of “U.PRAKASH;
R.RAGHAVENDAR; R.RANJITH; V.SANTHOSH KUMAR” who
carried out the project work under my supervision.

SIGNATURE SIGNATURE

Dr.K.SRIDHARAN M.E., Ph.D. Mr.G.SAMSON PRABAKARAN M.E.,

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT SUPERVISOR

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering

Madha Engineering College Madha Engineering College

Kundrathur, Chennai-69 Kundrathur, Chennai-69

Submitted for the university examination held on …………………..

INTERNAL EXAMINER EXTERNAL EXAMINER

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to offer our sincere thanks to the divine whose immortal shower
induced us to present our project. We are grateful to our beloved chairman
Dr.Ln.S.Peter for permitting us to do this project work.

We also owe our sincere thanks to our Er.A.Prakash, director for his kind
words and enthusiastic motivation which inspired a lot in completing this
project.

We would like to thank and express our heart full gratitude to our principal
Dr.A.Baradeswaran.M.E., Ph.D., for permitting us to do this project.
We feel extremely happy in conveying our genuine thanks to our head of the
department and our internal guide, Dr.K.Sridharan, M.E., Ph.D. for his
support throughout this project.

We also wish to thank Mr.G.Samson Prabakaran, M.E., supervisor of our

project, for the support to do the project in this college.

Finally, our sincere thanks to our family and friends for the guidance and having
confident on us to do this project.
 ABSTRACT
One of the most important safety features in an automobile is brake. A
typical automobile consist of two types of brakes, one for retarding the
speed of the vehicle while it is in motion and the other is to hold the
vehicle in its place when standing still or parked. The latter is mostly
important when the vehicle is parked on the slope. It is the important to
disengage the handbrake before starting the vehicle from rest position.
Due to operate errors the conventional handbrake system remained
engaged even when the vehicle was moving due to manual operation of
the hand lever through which the handbrake is operated. This led the
brakes to become ineffective and eventually they failed to serve their
purpose. To overcome all the limitation of the conventional system we
proposed the new automatic handbrake release using pneumatic system.
This system operates depending upon the ignition switch and push button.
In this project , the control unit or solenoid valve receive signal from the
key switch and push button . At the time of vehicle ignition , the
pneumatic cylinder pushes the hand brake to the OFF condition and
during a vehicle OFF condition the hand brake in ON condition For
emergency braking a push button is fixed under the steering system ,
which is connected to the solenoid valve to regulate the pneumatic
cylinder .