Integrated pressure sensor module
AssigneeContinental Teves AG & Co. oHG
InventorsStephan Risch, Michael Jürgens
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a braking device comprising an assembled control mechanism wherein a first plug-in housing unit essentially containing the electronic components on one or more component support members, is plugged together with a block-shaped solid part on a first surface of the solid part for establishing a magnetic and electrical connection, with said solid part including magnetically operated hydraulic valves for the actuation of the brakes and hydraulic lines, and wherein the device comprises pressure sensors for measuring the pressure in the hydraulic lines at appropriate measuring points. The braking device is characterized in that the pressure sensor(s) is/are integrated in the assembled control mechanism.
Claims20
Braking device, comprising:
- a first plug-in housing unit containing electronic components on one or more component carriers,
- a block-shaped element plugged into said first plug-in housing unit for establishing a magnetic and electrical connection, wherein said block-shaped element includes magnetically operated hydraulic valves for the actuation of the brakes and hydraulic lines, and a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure in a hydraulic line, wherein the pressure sensor is located in the block-shaped, element,
- wherein an electrical contact zone of the pressure sensor includes contact elements that are rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the pressure sensor so that a safe electrical contact is achieved with a tolerance-induced displacement of the position of a contact zone of a printed circuit board in relation to the position of the contact zone of the pressure sensor,
- wherein a conductive connection between a component support member and the pressure sensor is constituted by at least one electrically conductive compressible and elastic contact element, said contact element including at least one radial supporting, step-like projection, and at least one supporting surface provided on said first housing unit or a part connected to the first housing unit for the spatial fixation of the contact element during manufacture of the device.
Braking device, comprising:
- a first plug-in housing unit containing electronic components on one or more component carriers,
- a block-shaped element plugged into said first plug-in housing unit for establishing a magnetic and electrical connection, wherein said block-shaped element includes magnetically operated hydraulic valves for the actuation of the brakes and hydraulic lines, and a pressure sensor for measuring the pressure in a hydraulic line, wherein the pressure sensor is located in the block-shaped, element,
- wherein an electrical contact zone of the pressure sensor includes contact elements that are rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the pressure sensor so that a safe electrical contact is achieved with a tolerance-induced displacement of the position of a contact zone of a printed circuit board in relation to the position of the contact zone of the pressure sensor,
- wherein on a first frontal surface of the pressure sensor, the pressure sensor includes an arrangement of contact surfaces isolated from each other, wherein said contact surfaces allow an elastic connection at the sensor to be constituted with elastic contact elements,
- wherein on the first frontal surface of the pressure sensor, a central contact is arranged in the area of a center of the frontal surface, and wherein at least two oblong peripheral contacts are arranged along circular segments of a circle or along several concentric circles formed around a center of said contact.
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