摘要 |
A wheel bearing for measuring the contact forces between tire and road. The forces which act between the road and the tire in a vehicle are to be recorded under all driving situations including operation of the brake. This information about the currently acting forces is used by vehicle operation control systems and for optimizing the braking process. For this purpose, first sensors are arranged on the stationary part of the wheel bearing in order to measure the forces acting in the wheel bearing. In addition, the currently acting braking forces are continuously determined by means of the second sensors, which are arranged on support members 6 for the disk-brake caliper. During unbraked travel, conclusions can be drawn directly on the forces acting between the road and the tire from the measurement results from the firt sensors. During braking, the support forces of the brake disk are calculated from the measured forces in the wheel bearing in order to arrive at the currently acting forces between the road and the tire. The advantage of the invention relative to the prior art lies in the spatial proximity of the arrangement of the sensors and the arrangement of the sensors on the stationary components.
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