PARKING MECHANISM, EMB SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE
20220355779 · 2022-11-10
Assignee
Inventors
Cpc classification
F16D2125/66
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16D2127/06
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16D41/066
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
B60T13/746
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B60T13/741
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
F16D2127/02
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16D28/00
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16D65/16
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16D2125/52
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
F16D2121/24
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
International classification
Abstract
A parking mechanism that includes a wheel disc, a wedge disc, and a drive assembly. An axis of the wheel disc and an axis of the wedge disc both are aligned with an axis of a motor shaft. A wedge groove with an opening facing the wheel disc is formed on a surface of the wedge disc facing the wheel disc, and a movable part in contact with the wheel disc is disposed in the wedge groove. In a direction from a bottom of the wedge groove to the wheel disc, a groove depth at a first end of the wedge groove is greater than a size of the movable part, and a groove depth at a second end of the wedge groove is less than the size of the movable part. The parking mechanism can provide stepless variable parking force.
Claims
1. A parking mechanism, comprising: a wheel disc; a wedge disc; and a drive assembly, wherein the wheel disc is configured to be fixedly connected to a motor shaft of a brake system, the wedge disc is fastened relative to a motor housing of the brake system, and an axis of the wheel disc and an axis of the wedge disc are aligned with an axis of the motor shaft; a wedge groove with an opening facing the wheel disc is formed on a surface of the wedge disc facing the wheel disc, a movable part in contact with the wheel disc is disposed in the wedge groove, and in a direction from a bottom of the wedge groove to the wheel disc, a groove depth at a first end of the wedge groove is greater than a size of the movable part, and a groove depth at a second end of the wedge groove is less than the size of the movable part; and an elastic part is disposed between the movable part and the first end of the wedge groove, and the elastic part is in an energy storage state to have a trend of driving the movable part to move from the first end to the second end of the wedge groove; and the drive assembly is configured to drive the movable part to move from the second end to the first end in the wedge groove.
2. The parking mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the wedge disc is in a ring shape, the wedge disc is sleeved on the wheel disc, and the wedge groove is formed on an inner surface of the wedge disc in contact with the wheel disc.
3. The parking mechanism according to claim 2, wherein the movable part is cylindrical or spherical.
4. The parking mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the drive assembly further comprises: a drive disc, an axis of the drive disc is aligned with the axis of the motor shaft, the drive disc rotates relative to the wedge disc and around the axis of the motor shaft, the drive disc has a drive block corresponding to the wedge groove, and the drive block extends into the wedge groove and is located at a side of the movable part away from the elastic part.
5. The parking mechanism according to claim 4, wherein the drive assembly further comprises: an electromagnetic drive structure configured to drive the drive disc to rotate by using the axis of the motor shaft of the brake system as a rotation axis.
6. The parking mechanism according to claim 5, wherein the drive assembly further comprises: a transmission rod in transmission connection to a power output end of the electromagnetic drive structure, an outer thread is formed by rotating a peripheral surface of the transmission rod around an axis of the transmission rod, a worm gear is formed at an edge of the drive disc, and the worm gear is engaged with the thread.
7. The parking mechanism according to claim 6, wherein a wrench interface is disposed at an end of the transmission rod away from the electromagnetic drive structure.
8. The parking mechanism according to claim 1, wherein the elastic part is a spring or a spring plate.
9. An electronic mechanical brake (EMB) system, comprising a motor, a reducer, and a parking mechanism, wherein the parking mechanism comprises a wheel disc, a wedge disc, and a drive assembly, wherein the wheel disc is configured to be fixedly connected to a motor shaft of a brake system, the wedge disc is fastened relative to a motor housing of the brake system, and an axis of the wheel disc and an axis of the wedge disc are aligned with an axis of the motor shaft; a wedge groove with an opening facing the wheel disc is formed on a surface of the wedge disc facing the wheel disc, a movable part in contact with the wheel disc is disposed in the wedge groove, and in a direction from a bottom of the wedge groove to the wheel disc, a groove depth at a first end of the wedge groove is greater than a size of the movable part, and a groove depth at a second end of the wedge groove is less than the size of the movable part; and an elastic part is disposed between the movable part and the first end of the wedge groove, and the elastic part is in an energy storage state to have a trend of driving the movable part to move from the first end to the second end of the wedge groove; and the drive assembly is configured to drive the movable part to move from the second end to the first end in the wedge groove; wherein the motor is in transmission connection to the reducer by using a motor shaft; and a wheel disc of the parking mechanism is fixedly connected to the motor shaft, and a wedge disc of the parking mechanism is fastened relative to a motor housing of the motor.
10. The EMB system according to claim 9, wherein the wedge disc is in a ring shape, the wedge disc is sleeved on the wheel disc, and the wedge groove is formed on an inner surface of the wedge disc in contact with the wheel disc.
11. The EMB system according to claim 10, wherein the movable part is cylindrical or spherical.
12. The EMB system according to claim 9, wherein the drive assembly further comprises: a drive disc, an axis of the drive disc is aligned with the axis of the motor shaft, and the drive disc rotates relative to the wedge disc and around the axis of the motor shaft; and the drive disc has a drive block corresponding to the wedge groove, and the drive block extends into the wedge groove and is located at a side of the movable part away from the elastic part.
13. The EMB system according to claim 12, wherein the drive assembly further comprises: an electromagnetic drive structure configured to drive the drive disc to rotate by using the axis of the motor shaft of the brake system as a rotation axis.
14. The EMB system according to claim 13, wherein the drive assembly further comprises: a transmission rod in transmission connection to a power output end of the electromagnetic drive structure, an outer thread is formed by rotating a peripheral surface of the transmission rod around an axis of the transmission rod, a worm gear is formed at an edge of the drive disc, and the worm gear is engaged with the thread.
15. A vehicle, comprising a vehicle body, a wheel hub, and an electronic mechanical brake (EMB) system, wherein the EMB system comprises a motor, a reducer, and a parking mechanism, wherein the parking mechanism comprises a wheel disc, a wedge disc, and a drive assembly, wherein the wheel disc is configured to be fixedly connected to a motor shaft of a brake system, the wedge disc is fastened relative to a motor housing of the brake system, and an axis of the wheel disc and an axis of the wedge disc are aligned with an axis of the motor shaft; a wedge groove with an opening facing the wheel disc is formed on a surface of the wedge disc facing the wheel disc, a movable part in contact with the wheel disc is disposed in the wedge groove, and in a direction from a bottom of the wedge groove to the wheel disc, a groove depth at a first end of the wedge groove is greater than a size of the movable part, and a groove depth at a second end of the wedge groove is less than the size of the movable part; and an elastic part is disposed between the movable part and the first end of the wedge groove, and the elastic part is in an energy storage state to have a trend of driving the movable part to move from the first end to the second end of the wedge groove; and the drive assembly is configured to drive the movable part to move from the second end to the first end in the wedge groove; wherein the motor is in transmission connection to the reducer by using a motor shaft; and a wheel disc of the parking mechanism is fixedly connected to the motor shaft, and a wedge disc of the parking mechanism is fastened relative to a motor housing of the motor; wherein a motor shaft of the EMB system is in transmission connection to the wheel hub.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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[0028] Currently, an EMB system may be used for braking a vehicle. After an EPB unit is integrated into the EMB system, the EPB unit can lock a motion mechanism of the EMB system to maintain braking. However, an application scope of a current EPB unit is limited, stepless change (which may also be referred to as consecutive change) cannot be implemented, and a vehicle may easily slide when parking force increases.
[0029] In view of this, the embodiments may provide a parking mechanism that can be integrated into an EMB system, to resolve the foregoing problems. To make objectives, solutions, and advantages clearer, the following further describes the embodiments in detail with reference to accompanying drawings.
[0030] Terms used in the embodiments are merely intended to describe the embodiments but are not intended as limiting. Terms “one”, “a”, “the”, “the foregoing”, “this”, and “the one” of singular forms used herein are also intended to include plural forms like “one or more”, unless otherwise specified in the context clearly.
[0031] Reference to “one embodiment” or “some embodiments” or the like means that one or more embodiments include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in combination with the embodiment. Thus, phrases “in one embodiment”, “in some embodiments”, “in some other embodiments”, “in some additional embodiments”, and the like that appear do not necessarily mean referring to a same embodiment, but mean “one or more embodiments, but not all embodiments”, unless otherwise emphasized. The terms “include”, “have”, and their variants all mean “include but are not limited to”, unless otherwise emphasized in other ways.
[0032] Refer to
[0033] The wheel disc 1 is of a disc-shaped structure, equivalent to a cylinder with a low height, and has two opposite surfaces. A distance between the two surfaces is equivalent to the height of the cylinder, that is, a thickness of the wheel disc 1. An axis of the wheel disc 1 is aligned with an axis Q of the motor shaft, so that the wheel disc 1 co-axially rotates with the motor shaft, and the wheel disc 1 and the motor shaft have a same rotational angular velocity. The wedge disc 2 may also be of a disc-shaped structure, equivalent to a cylinder with a low height, and has two opposite surfaces. A distance between the two surfaces is equivalent to the height of the cylinder, that is, a thickness of the wedge disc 2. The wedge disc 2 has a cylindrical hole extending along an axis of the wedge disc 2 and penetrating the thickness of the wedge disc 2. An inner diameter of the cylindrical hole is equivalent to a size of a radial peripheral surface of the wheel disc 1, so that the wedge disc 2 can be sleeved on the wheel disc 1, and the axis of the sleeved wedge disc 2 is aligned with the axis of the wheel disc 1. In this manner, the axis of the wheel disc 1, the axis of the wedge disc 2, and the axis Q of the motor shaft are aligned. When the brake system is not at a standstill, the motor shaft of the brake system rotates normally, and the wheel disc 1 rotates relative to the wedge disc 2 by using the axis Q of the motor shaft as a rotation axis. To implement braking of the brake system, the motor shaft of the brake system needs to be braked to reduce a rotation rate of the motor shaft of the brake system until the motor shaft of the brake system stops rotating (that the motor shaft of the brake system stops rotating is equivalent to that the brake system is at a standstill).
[0034] At least one wedge groove 21 with an opening facing the wheel disc 1 is formed on a surface of the wedge disc 2 facing the wheel disc 1. In
[0035] With reference to a structure of the wheel disc 1 and the wedge disc 2 shown in
[0036] With reference to
[0037] To control the movable part 22 to move in the wedge groove 21 to change motion of the wheel disc 1 relative to the wedge disc 2, for example, as shown in
[0038] The drive assembly 3 is configured to drive the movable part 22 to move from the second end a2 to the first end a1, so that the friction between the movable part 22 and the wheel disc 1 decreases. When the drive assembly 3 drives the movable part 22 to move from the second end a2 to the first end a1, until the friction between the movable part 22 and the wheel disc 1 decreases to almost disappearing, locking on the wheel disc 1 is canceled, the motor shaft of the brake system rotates normally, where the motor shaft is fixedly connected to the wheel disc 1, and the brake system is released from a standstill.
[0039] Based on the structure and the cooperation manner of the wheel disc 1 and the wedge disc 2, the drive assembly 3 may include a drive disc 31 of a circular disc structure. The drive disc 31 is also equivalent to a cylinder with a low height, and also has two opposite surfaces. A distance between the two surfaces is equivalent to the height of the cylinder, that is, a thickness of the drive disc 31. The wedge disc 2 is sleeved on the wheel disc 1 in a radial direction of the motor shaft of the brake system, and in the direction of the axis Q of the motor shaft of the brake system, the drive disc 31 is disposed on any side of the wheel disc 1 and the wedge disc 2. A drive block 311 that extends into the wedge groove 21 is formed on the drive disc 31, and the drive block 311 is located on a side of the movable part 22 away from the elastic part 23, to facilitate the drive block 311 to apply, to the movable part 22, force that drives the movable part 22 to move from the second end a2 to the first end a1.
[0040] In some embodiments, the movable part 22 is cylindrical, and the cylindrical movable part 22 is disposed in the wedge groove 21 in the following manner. An axis of the cylindrical movable part 22 is parallel to the axis Q of the motor shaft of the brake system, and a radial peripheral surface of the cylindrical movable part 22 is in contact with the inner wall of the wedge groove 21 and/or the wheel disc 1. In some other embodiments, the movable part 22 may alternatively be spherical, and a manner of disposing the spherical movable part in the wedge groove 21 is not limited. The motion of the movable part 22 in the two forms in the wedge groove 21 may be rolling, or may be translation, or may be a combination of rolling and translation, provided that the motion of the movable part 22 in the wedge groove 21 can control the braking state of the motor shaft of the brake system. In addition, an action manner between the movable part 22 and the wheel disc 1 may be replaced with a butterfly friction block structure, a ratchet wheel structure, a ratchet disc structure, or the like. Details are not described herein.
[0041] It should be understood that, in
[0042] To implement electronic braking, the drive assembly 3 in the parking mechanism 10 provided in the embodiments further includes a power source, and the power source drives the drive disc 31 to rotate around the axis of the motor shaft of the brake system.
[0043] A parking mechanism 10 is shown in
[0044] To more clearly show a transmission relationship of the parking mechanism 10 in
[0045] With reference to
[0046] Still with reference to
[0047] In some alternative solutions, the wrench interface e may also be in an inner hexagonal shape, a petal shape (for example, a torx shape), or the like. Details are not described herein.
[0048] For example, the parking mechanism 10 in
[0049] When the electronic brake system is at a standstill, the electromagnetic drive structure 32 of the drive assembly 3 is powered on to drive a transmission rod 33 to rotate in a direction shown in
[0050] In conclusion, the parking mechanism 10 provided in the embodiments is equivalent to an overrunning clutch (which may also be referred to as a one-way clutch), and the motor shaft of the brake system is enabled to implement the following two states through cooperation of transmission structures of the parking mechanism 10: Cooperation of the movable part 22 and the wedge groove 21 implements a one-way clutch effect (one-way locking of the motor shaft), and braking of the motor shaft of the brake system is fully released without affecting normal operation of the motor shaft of the brake system.
[0051] Based on a structure of the parking mechanism 10, for example, the parking mechanism 10 shown in
[0052] It should be understood that a function of the parking mechanism 10 herein is to lock the motion of the motor shaft 201 of the motor 20. The entire EMB system 100 only needs to lock power transmission. Therefore, an EMB system 100 shown in
[0053] With reference to a transmission connection structure of an EMB system 100 shown in
[0054] With reference to the structure of the parking mechanism 10 shown in
[0055] When software of the EMB system 100 drives the motor 20 to increase parking force, the motor shaft 201 rotates with the wheel disc 1 around an axis of the motor shaft 201 and in the wedge groove 21 in a direction from the second end b2 to the first end b1. The drive assembly 3 drives the drive block 311 to apply, to the movable part 22, force in a direction from the first end b1 to the second end b2 of the wedge groove 21. Elastic potential energy of the elastic part 23 is insufficient to prevent an action of the movable part 22. When the parking force increases, the friction between the wheel disc 1 and the movable part 22 located in the wedge groove 21 and close to the second end b2 continues to prevent the motor shaft 201 from being reversed. It should be understood that, in a period of increasing parking force, locking between the movable part 22 and the wedge groove 21 is unidirectional, and the transmission rod 33 and the drive disc 31 of the drive assembly 3 do not need to be loosened, so that the EMB system 100 is at a standstill, and the vehicle does not slide.
[0056] In addition, a worm gear and worm assembly including the transmission rod 33 and the drive disc 31 of the parking mechanism 10 can implement self-locking, so that the EMB system 100 is purely mechanically parked for a long time, and a motor 20 of the EMB system 100 does not need to be energized for a long time.
[0057] It can be understood that the EMB system 100 provided in the embodiments may implement braking by using the foregoing parking mechanism 10. When braking needs to be maintained for a long time, reversal of the motor 20 can be locked, and the motor 20 is enabled to rotate forward without being prevented from increasing force, so that the motor 20 can be powered off and cooled down. As the EMB system 100 uses the parking mechanism 10, when an electrical failure occurs, braking can be released manually, and no additional parking system is required, thereby reducing costs.
[0058] Based on the EMB system 100, as shown in
[0059] The foregoing descriptions are merely implementations of the embodiments, but are not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments. Any variation or replacement readily figured out by a person skilled in the art shall fall within the scope of the embodiments.