Electromechanical brake device
An electromechanical brake device has a brake caliper and a pressure piston mounted in the brake caliper such that it can move in a clamping direction, wherein the brake device has an electromechanical clamping device, wherein the clamping device is supported, on one side, on the pressure piston and is designed to apply to the pressure piston a force acting in the clamping direction. It is provided that the brake device has at least one hydraulically sealed, fluid-filled cavity, wherein the clamping device is supported, on the other side, indirectly on the brake caliper via the fluid-filled cavity, and wherein a pressure sensor is hydraulically connected to the fluid-filled cavity and is designed to calculate the fluid pressure inside the fluid-filled cavity.
1. An electromechanical brake device with a brake caliper comprising:
a pressure piston mounted in the brake caliper such that it can move in a clamping direction;
an electromechanical clamping device for the brake device, wherein the clamping device is supported, on one side, on the pressure piston and is designed to apply to the pressure piston a force acting in the clamping direction;
at least one hydraulically sealed, fluid-filled cavity of the brake device, wherein the clamping device is supported, on another side, indirectly on the brake caliper via the fluid-filled cavity; and
a pressure sensor hydraulically connected to the fluid-filled cavity and designed to calculate the fluid pressure inside the fluid-filled cavity;
wherein the clamping device has an electromotively driven threaded spindle and a spindle nut, wherein the spindle nut is supported on the pressure piston in the clamping direction and wherein the threaded spindle is supported on the brake caliper counter to the clamping direction via the fluid-filled cavity; and
wherein the threaded spindle has a first longitudinal section with a first diameter and a second longitudinal section adjoining the first longitudinal section, wherein an external thread with a diameter greater than the first diameter is formed in the second longitudinal section.
2. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the spindle nut is arranged at least partially in a recess inside the pressure piston.
3. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a support ring is arranged on the first longitudinal section of the threaded spindle, wherein the internal diameter of the support ring is smaller than the external diameter of the second longitudinal section of the threaded spindle such that the threaded spindle is supported indirectly on the brake caliper via the support ring counter to the clamping direction via the fluid-filled cavity.
4. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the fluid-filled cavity is formed between a first and a second pressure sleeve, wherein the first pressure sleeve is supported on the brake caliper counter to the clamping direction, while the second pressure sleeve is supported on the clamping device in the clamping direction.
5. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the first pressure sleeve and the second pressure sleeve each have an opening, wherein the clamping device extends through the opening.
6. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the second pressure sleeve is mounted in the first pressure sleeve such that it is displaceable in the clamping direction.
7. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the second pressure sleeve is mounted on plain bearings on the first pressure sleeve on at least two bearing faces, wherein sealing elements which seal the cavity formed between the pressure sleeves fluidtightly are arranged in the region of the bearing faces on at least one of the first pressure sleeve and the second pressure sleeve.
8. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the first pressure sleeve and the second pressure sleeve each have a pot-shaped design, wherein at least part of the clamping device extends inside the pot shape.
9. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the pressure sensor is arranged in a side wall of the pot shape of the first pressure sleeve.
10. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the first pressure sleeve and the second pressure sleeve each have a plate-shaped design, wherein the pressure sleeves are connected to each other via membranes at their radial outer rims and at the rims of their respective openings such that the cavity formed between the pressure sleeves is sealed fluidtightly by the membranes.
11. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the pressure sensor is arranged in the plate shape of the first pressure sleeve between the membranes.
12. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the pressure sensor is screwed into the first pressure sleeve.
13. An electromechanical brake device with a brake caliper comprising:
a pressure piston mounted in the brake caliper such that it can move in a clamping direction;
an electromechanical clamping device for the brake device, wherein the clamping device is supported, on one side, on the pressure piston and is designed to apply to the pressure piston a force acting in the clamping direction;
at least one hydraulically sealed, fluid-filled cavity of the brake device, wherein the clamping device is supported, on another side, indirectly on the brake caliper via the fluid-filled cavity; and
a pressure sensor hydraulically connected to the fluid-filled cavity and designed to calculate the fluid pressure inside the fluid-filled cavity;
wherein the fluid-filled cavity is formed between a first and a second pressure sleeve, wherein the first pressure sleeve is supported on the brake caliper counter to the clamping direction, while the second pressure sleeve is supported on the clamping device in the clamping direction; and
wherein the first pressure sleeve is fastened on the brake caliper.
14. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the first pressure sleeve and the second pressure sleeve each have an opening, wherein the clamping device extends through the opening.
15. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the second pressure sleeve is mounted in the first pressure sleeve such that it is displaceable in the clamping direction.
16. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the second pressure sleeve is mounted on plain bearings on the first pressure sleeve on at least two bearing faces, wherein sealing elements which seal the cavity formed between the pressure sleeves fluidtightly are arranged in the region of the bearing faces on at least one of the first pressure sleeve and the second pressure sleeve.
17. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the first pressure sleeve and the second pressure sleeve each have a pot-shaped design, wherein at least part of the clamping device extends inside the pot shape.
18. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 17 , wherein the pressure sensor is arranged in a side wall of the pot shape of the first pressure sleeve.
19. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the first pressure sleeve and the second pressure sleeve each have a plate-shaped design, wherein the pressure sleeves are connected to each other via membranes at their radial outer rims and at the rims of their respective openings such that the cavity formed between the pressure sleeves is sealed fluidtightly by the membranes.
20. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 19 , wherein the pressure sensor is arranged in the plate shape of the first pressure sleeve between the membranes.
21. The electromechanical brake device as claimed in claim 13 , wherein the pressure sensor is screwed into the first pressure sleeve.