DE102012007071A1 - Tire module mounted to inner surface of pneumatic tire for vehicle, has storage for electrical energy, which is connected to mechanical-electrical converter, and contact pads are located on opposite sides of piezoelectric disc - Google Patents

Abstract

The tire module has a transmitter which transmits radio signals containing information about the air pressure in tire. A mechanical-electrical converter has a semi-rigid, circular disc-shaped piezoelectric element. The alternating shape changes of piezoelectric element are made by the rolling wheels. The electric voltage generated by the piezoelectric effect of piezoelectric disc is measured at points of contact and is converted into electrical energy. A storage for electrical energy is connected to the converter. The contact pads are located on opposite sides of piezoelectric disc.

Description

The invention is based on a tire module with the features specified in the preamble of claim 1. Such a tire module is from the DE 603 10 104 T2 known. The known tire module is mounted on the inside of a pneumatic tire for vehicles. It includes means for measuring and / or monitoring the air pressure in the tire and a transmitter for transmitting radio signals containing information about the air pressure in the tire. The electrical energy required by the tire module is provided by a mechanical-electrical transducer with a bendable piezoelectric element exposed to acceleration forces exerted by a seismic mass when the tire is rolling and at the beginning and end of a run of the tire module Change the footprint of the tire (Laces). The electrical energy generated by the piezoelectric element increases with the size of the seismic mass and with the speed of the tire. The electrical energy supplied by the piezoelectric element is supplied to a memory, from which it can be removed for operating the device for measuring and / or monitoring the air pressure and for operating the transmitter. The piezoelectric effect utilizing mechanical-electrical converter can replace an otherwise required in the tire module long-lasting battery.

Also the WO 2010/092171 A2 , the WO 2007/099159 A1 and the DE 10 2004 031 810 A1 disclose tire modules having a piezoelectric element which is acted upon by forces with which centrifugal accelerations act on a seismic mass which is connected to the piezoelectric element. The US 2007/0074566 A1 discloses a tire module with a piezoelectric element which generates electrical energy from the occurring tire pressure fluctuations.

The present invention has for its object to provide a particularly easy to install tire module.

This object is achieved by a tire module having the features specified in claim 1. The invention further relates to a tire which is equipped with such a tire module. Advantageous developments of the invention are the subject of the dependent claims.

The tire module according to the invention has a device for measuring and / or monitoring the air pressure in the tire, a transmitter for transmitting radio signals containing information about the air pressure in the tire, a mechanical-electrical converter with a bendable piezoelectric element, which is the rolling tire caused changing deformations of the piezoelectric element into electrical energy, and a memory for the electrical energy, which is connected to the transducer. The transducer includes a circular, disk-shaped, piezoelectric element, which is referred to below as a piezoelectric disk and on which an electrical voltage generated by the piezoelectric effect is tapped at contact points which are located on opposite sides of the piezoelectric disk.

The tire module according to the invention has significant advantages:

• • Die Verwendung einer kreisförmigen Piezoscheibe erlaubt die Verwendung eines flachen, zylindrischen Gehäuses für das Reifenmodul, dessen Durchmesser sich am Durchmesser der Piezoscheibe orientiert. Das ermöglicht einen besonders kompakten Aufbau des Reifenmoduls mit minimaler Masse.
• • Minimale Masse bedeutet minimale Unwucht und minimale Trägheitskräfte, welche ihrerseits eine lange Lebensdauer begünstigen.
• • Ein Reifenmodul mit flachem, zylindrischem Gehäuse lässt sich besonders leicht handhaben und leicht und dauerhaft an der Innenseite des Reifens befestigen.
• • Zweckmäßigerweise wird das Reifenmodul im Bereich der Mitte der Lauffläche an der Innenseite des Reifen befestigt. Eine falsche Anordnung des erfindungsgemäßen Reifenmoduls ist dort nicht möglich.
• • Auch bei sich langsam drehendem Reifen liefert das Reifenmodul genügend Energie für die Reifendruckkontrolle, denn die Erzeugung der Piezospannung hängt nicht davon ab, dass eine Zentrifugalbeschleunigung auf eine seismische Masse einwirkt.

By the use of a circular, disc-shaped, piezoelectric element, the tire module, which is expediently arranged so that the central axis of the circular piezo disk is oriented perpendicular to the tread of the tire and thus radially with respect to the axis of rotation of the tire, otherwise in any orientation be attached to the inside of the tire. Rotations of the tire module about the central axis of the circular piezo disc remain without appreciable influence on the efficiency of the mechanical-electrical converter.

• • The use of a circular piezo disc allows the use of a flat, cylindrical housing for the tire module whose diameter is oriented to the diameter of the piezo disc. This allows a particularly compact construction of the tire module with minimal mass.
• • Minimum mass means minimal imbalance and minimal inertial forces, which in turn favor a long life.
• • A tire module with a flat, cylindrical housing is particularly easy to handle and easy and durable to attach to the inside of the tire.
• Conveniently, the tire module is fastened to the inside of the tire in the region of the center of the tread. A wrong arrangement of the tire module according to the invention is not possible there.
• • Even with a slowly rotating tire, the tire module provides enough energy for tire pressure monitoring because the generation of the piezo voltage does not depend on a centrifugal acceleration acting on a seismic mass.

The circular, disk-shaped, piezoelectric element is preferably made of a piezoceramic, z. B. from lead zirconate titanate. However, the piezoelectric element can also be formed by coating a substrate, in particular a metallic substrate, with a piezoelectric material. In this case, that serves Substrate as a support for the piezoelectric material. For both embodiments, the term "piezo disk" is used in this patent specification. The piezoelectric disk is mounted in the tire module so that changes in shape of the tread of the tire produce changes in the shape of the piezoelectric disk, which occur in particular during lathe running and during run-off. The changing shape changes generate on the piezoelectric disk, an electrical voltage that can be tapped at contact points, which are located on the opposite side of the piezoelectric disk.

One of the contact points, which is used for tapping the electrical voltage, is preferably formed by a metal disc, in particular by a circular metal disc, which completely covers a first side of the piezo disc. The metal disk is so thin and flexible that it does not hinder the desired bending of the piezo disk during the sheet pass and protects the piezoelectric material, in particular against breakage. Preferably, the metal disc forms an outer side of the tire module, so that the tire module rests after its attachment to a tire with its metal disc on the inside of the tire, so that the deformations of the tire occurring there are transmitted to the metal disk and from there to the piezoelectric disk. In the embodiment in which a metallic substrate is coated with piezoelectric material, the metallic substrate may be used as the one pad of the piezoelectric disk and abut the tire on the inside thereof after attachment of the tire module.

Preferably, the metal disc, which completely covers a first side of the piezo disc and is used as an electrical contact point, has a slightly larger diameter than the piezo disc.

The second side of the piezoelectric disk is preferably provided only partially with one or more contact points. This makes it easier to ensure that the composite formed from the piezoelectric disk, the contact metal disc on the first side of the piezoelectric disk and the electrical contact material on the second side of the piezoelectric disk has a neutral fiber which does not lie in the middle of the piezoelectric disk when bending the piezoelectric disk Piezo disc is located, but at the edge of the piezo disc or even in the metal disc. This is important for a good efficiency of the piezoelectric mechanical-electrical converter.

Preferably, a plurality of contact points are provided on the second side of the piezoelectric disk, which are electrically conductively connected to each other. This ensures that the mechanical-electrical converter does not fail even if a contact point should come off the piezo disk. The one or more contact points on the second side of the piezoelectric disk are preferably arranged centrally on the piezoelectric disk and expediently cover not more than 20%, preferably at most 10%, of the surface of the second side of the piezoelectric disk.

The piezo disk is preferably arranged between the metal disk on the first side of the piezo disk and a flexible conductor film on the second side of the piezo disk. On the flexible conductor foil there are conductor tracks which lead to the contact points on the second side of the piezo disc and optionally connect them to each other and to the memory provided in the tire module for the electrical energy. The conductor foil can also have a conductor track, which establishes the electrical connection between the metal disc on the first side of the piezo disc and the store for the electrical energy. The connection between the conductor tracks and the metal disk on the first side of the piezoelectric disk and the contact points on the second side of the piezoelectric disk can, for. B. be prepared by reflow soldering. For security reasons, a plurality of solder joints can be formed between the metal disk and the conductor track of the conductor film to be connected to it. Preferably, the trace, through which the connection is made with the circular metal disc, extends at the edge of the disc and extends almost over the entire circumference of the disc.

The printed circuit film can - like a printed circuit board - have printed conductors on both sides of the conductor film. This is one way to electrically isolate the trace leading to the first side of the piezoelectric disk from the traces that lead to the pads on the second side of the piezoelectric disk. However, the conductor tracks can also run on one and the same side of the conductor foil. Insofar as they lead over an edge region of the circular metal disc, they can be isolated from one another there by an electrically insulating varnish.

The metal disc should adhere to the piezo disc. This can z. B. with the help of a conductive adhesive. A conductive adhesive is an adhesive in which electrically conductive pigments are distributed.

The conductor foil, which covers the first side of the piezo disc, preferably forms a circular area, which is connected to a circuit carrier by a web, which preferably also consists of the conductor foil and extends from the edge of the circular area. The circuit carrier preferably also consists of the conductor foil, so that it and the circular surface which the covered first side of the piezoelectric disk, can be formed in one piece from the flexible conductor foil. This is favorable for a lightweight, inexpensive and compact construction of the tire module. The structure is particularly compact if the two circular surfaces, which preferably coincide in diameter, with the interposition of a rigid spacer, preferably a rigid spacer, which is preferably also circular, one above the other and preferably coaxially to each other. In this position, the two circular surfaces can be brought by the fact that the conductor foil in the region of the web is interspersed with the interposition of the spacer to this. The piezoelectric disk, the spacer and the part of the conductor film, which forms the circuit carrier and is equipped with the components and circuit parts of the tire module are arranged in this way very compact one above the other and can be accommodated by a housing with a cylindrical outer surface, wherein the diameter of the Mantle surface of the housing at the diameter of the piezoelectric disk and the preferably slightly larger metal disc oriented, which carries the piezoelectric disk.

The spacer is preferably curved convex on its side facing the piezoelectric disk. This has the advantage that a free space is formed in this way, in which the edge of the piezoelectric disk can be bent. The size of this space is suitably chosen so that the curved piezoelectric disk is flat against the convex side facing the spacer before it can break.

Expediently, the components of the tire module, with the exception of the free space between the convex side of the spacer and the circular surface facing it, and with the exception of the side facing away from the piezoelectric disc metal sheet embedded in an electrically insulating potting compound. The potting compound protects the components of the tire module against dust and in particular against the ingress of moisture. In order to prevent the potting compound from penetrating into the free space between the convex side of the spacer and the side of the strip conductor film facing it, a sealing ring is provided between the spacer and the circular surface formed by the strip conductor, which faces the piezoelectric disk, which preferably has one has rectangular cross-section. The sealing ring is preferably made of a compressible foam.

When the potting compound has solidified after casting the components of the tire module, it preferably has a substantially cylindrical peripheral surface. "Substantially" is to be understood here that the shape of the peripheral surface may deviate from the ideal cylindrical shape in order to demold the molded tire module, because the casting is to take place in a mold from which to remove the module after solidification of the potting compound must, for which a demoulding facilitating low taper of the mold is appropriate.

Preferably, a cap is provided into which the molded tire module is inserted. At its edge, this cap preferably has an outwardly facing flange with which the cap can be attached to the inside of the tire. The cap is suitably a prefabricated molding. So that it receives the molded module without play, the peripheral surface of the potting compound of the tire module with respect to the clear width of the empty cap preferably has an excess, so that the cap is slightly stretched when the tire module is inserted into it. Preferably, the height of the tire module over the clear height of the cap has an excess, so that the cap is also slightly stretched in height when it is fastened with the inserted tire module on the inside of the tire. This attachment can be done in different ways, eg. B. in that the flange of the cap vulcanized on the inside of the tire, in particular is cold vulcanized. Another possibility is to glue the flange of the cap to the inside of the tire, e.g. B. with a hot-melt.

The cap is expediently made of an elastomeric material, in particular of a rubber-based material.

If the tire module is to have means for measuring air pressure in the tire, then the air in the tire must have access to the interior of the tire module. It is known to provide an integrated circuit for measuring the air pressure in the tire, in which an electrical pressure sensor, in particular based on silicon, is integrated. Such an integrated circuit has an opening which allows access of the pressurized air to the pressure sensor, which opening may contain a filter element for protection against contamination. Over such an opening, an access is open both in the potting compound and in the cap, via which the pressure sensor is in communication with the compressed air in the tire. The pressure sensor does not have to be part of an integrated circuit, it can also be mounted as an independent component on the printed circuit film.

In an advantageous embodiment of the invention, the tire module contains not only a transmitter with a transmitting antenna, but also a receiver with a receiving antenna. While the transmitter usually transmits at frequencies above 100 MHz, the receiver in the tire module is preferably designed for a much lower frequency, in particular for a frequency of 125 KHz. From this receiving antenna signals can be received which carry information, for. B. signals for setting and / or programming a provided in the tire module control circuit which z. B. may be a microprocessor, a microcontroller or an ASIC. Via this receiving antenna signals can also be received, which contain data that characterize the tire itself, for. Depending on the type and year of manufacture, and which characterize the tire module, e.g. B. an individual identifier, namely a code that is sent each time the tire module sends out a signal so that the receiver of this signal can determine from the transmitted with the identification of which tire module the signal comes.

Via the low-frequency receiving antenna of the tire module but also transmitted by radio electrical energy to load the memory in the tire module can be received. This is advantageous if the vehicle has stood still for so long that the memory provided for in the tire module has discharged for electrical energy. So the memory z. B. are charged during maintenance in a workshop, where it is not possible to charge the memory with the piezoelectric mechanical-electrical converter.

Further advantages and features of the invention will become apparent from the following description of an embodiment of the invention.

1 shows an inventive tire module in an exploded view, in an oblique view, together with a cap which is to receive the tire module,

2 shows the tire module 1 , embedded in a potting compound and inserted into the cap, in a simplified section through the central axis of the cap,

3 shows the tire module in a simplified section as in 2 attached to the inside of a tire,

4 shows a plan view of the unfolded, equipped with components of the tire module printed circuit film, and

5 shows a simplified block diagram of housed in the tire module electrical circuit.

1 shows a flexible conductor foil 1 which is a first circular area 2 , a second circular area 3 and a jetty 4 forms, which the two circular surfaces 2 and 3 in one piece with each other. The circular area 3 is a circuit carrier, on which, by way of example and schematically illustrated, an integrated circuit 5 and another electrical component 6 are arranged. This is merely intended to show that the circuit carrier 3 carries electrical and electronic components. The integrated circuit (IC) 5 contains in its housing a pressure sensor. For this purpose, the housing of the IC 5 an opening 14 , please refer 2 passing through a filter 7 is covered.

Under the circuit board 3 is a circular disk 8th arranged from a rigid plastic whose underside 8a convex is curved. Under the plastic disc 8th is a compressible sealing ring 9 provided, whose profile has a rectangular cross-section. To assemble the tire module, the circuit carrier 3 , which is equipped with the electrical and electronic components, on top of the plastic disc 8th placed. The sealing ring 9 gets to the bottom of the plastic disk 8th laid and the circular area 2 the conductor foil 1 gets up against the sealing ring 9 pivoted, creating between the convex bottom 8a the plastic disc 8th and the circular area 2 one of the sealing ring 9 limited, closed space 16 is created. On the in 1 invisible underside of the circular area 2 there is a piezo disk 17 and below that a metal disk 18 , please refer 2 and 3 ,

The components of the tire module are covered with a potting compound 13 potted and after their solidification en bloc in a cap 10 inserted, which has an opening in its top 11 has, in which the filter 7 intervenes. The cap 10 has an outwardly projecting edge 12 with which they are on the inside 20 a tire 21 can be fastened, see 3 ,

2 shows how that with the potting compound 13 potted tire module in the cap 10 sitting. The solidified potting compound 13 has a substantially cylindrical peripheral surface 13a , which are opposite the clear width of the empty cap 10 has an excess, leaving the cap 10 The tire module absorbs under mechanical prestress. So that the cap 10 It can consist of an elastomeric material, in particular based on rubber.

In 2 you can see from the components on the circuit board 3 only the IC 5 , Other components have not been drawn for reasons of simplification. In the case of the IC 5 is the location of the opening 14 indicated by which, for example, in the IC 5 provided pressure sensor can be acted upon with the existing in the tire compressed air.

You can see in the sectional view of 2 that the bottom of the plastic disc 8th on the edge with an annular shoulder 15 is provided, on which the sealing ring 9 lies. The sealing ring 9 is a radial boundary of the free space 16 which is located between the plastic plate 8th and the underlying first circular area 2 the conductor foil 1 located. At the bottom of the first circle 2 is a piezo disk 17 arranged, which preferably consists of a piezoceramic. Under the piezo disk 17 is a preferably circular metal disc 18 attached. The metal disc 18 is advantageously made of a nickel-iron alloy with 42 wt .-% nickel. You can z. B. by means of a conductive adhesive with the piezoelectric disk 17 be connected. A conductive adhesive is an adhesive that contains electrically conductive pigments that provide electrical conductivity to the adhesive.

The diameter of the metal disc 18 is larger than the diameter of the piezo disk, but not larger than the diameter of the two circular surfaces 2 and 3 ,

At the bottom of the flange 12 the cap 10 is a bonding agent 19 provided, z. B. a hot-melt. With this the cap can 10 together with the inserted tire module, as in 3 shown on the inside 20 a tire shown only schematically and in part 21 to be glued. An alternative mounting option is the vulcanization of the flange 12 on the inside 20 of the tire 21 ,

3 shows that the tire module including the cured potting compound 13 in which it is embedded, in height slightly over the clear height of the cap 10 has and slightly larger than the diameter of the inner diameter of the cap 10 Has. When connecting the flange 12 with the inside 20 of the tire 21 the tire module becomes under stretch of the cap 10 pressed into this and is kept free of play in it. At the same time, the excessively high level of the metal disc 18 against the inside 20 of the tire 21 pressed. The metal disc 18 is so thin and pliable that it is curving the inside 20 of the tire 21 adapts. If the lug of the tire 21 passes through the area in which the tire module on the tire 21 attached, changes under the metal disc 18 the curvature of the inside 20 of the tire 21 and with it the curvature of the metal disk 18 and the piezo disk 17 , whereby a piezoelectric voltage is generated.

4 shows the unfolded conductor foil 1 which is the first circular area 2 and the second circular area 3 forms, which in one piece by the footbridge 4 connected to each other. The conductor foil 1 is flexible and is therefore also known as flex foil. On the circular surface 2 is the piezo disk 17 arranged. The piezo disk 17 is through the circular metal disk 18 covered and therefore only dashed lines. The piezo disk 17 and the metal disk 18 are coaxial with the circular area 2 arranged. The diameter of the metal disc 18 is only slightly smaller than the diameter of the circular area 2 , The diameter of the piezo disk 17 is smaller than the diameter of the metal disk 18 ,

The metal disc 18 is z. B. by means of an electrically conductive adhesive to the piezoelectric disk 17 connected and poses with the first side of the piezo disc 17 a full-surface electrical contact ago. The second side of the piezo disk 17 is with the help of the conductor foil 1 electrically contacted. In the middle area of the piezo disk 17 are one or more contact points 22 arranged, which by conductor tracks 23 the interconnect film interconnected and with a conductor track 24 the conductor foil with an input of the integrated circuit 5 are connected. The metal disc 18 is along a circular arc 25 , which is near the edge of the metal disc 18 runs and extends over a circumferential angle of slightly less than 360 °, soldered and through a conductor track 26 the conductor foil with another input of the integrated circuit 5 connected. In this way, the on the piezo disc 17 occurring piezo voltage to the integrated circuit 5 and in 4 not shown - via a rectifier 28 to a capacitor or the like memory 30 for electrical energy, see 5 ,

On the metal plate 18 are the two tracks 24 and 26 isolated from each other by electrically insulating varnish.

The on the circular surface 3 the conductor foil 1 shown components are shown only schematically and without their functional connections, only to show that it is in the circular area 3 is a circuit carrier.

5 is a simplified circuit diagram of the tire module. It shows the piezoelectric mechanical-electrical converter 27 , consisting essentially of the piezo disk 17 , the metal disc 18 on the one and the circular surface 2 the conductor foil 1 on the other side of the piezo disk 17 , The converter 27 is on the one hand directly to two inputs of the integrated circuit 5 and on the other hand with a rectifier 28 connected, the plurality of diodes, for. B. contains eight diodes, two of which diodes 29 are shown. The rectifier 28 feeds a store 30 for electrical energy, which in the present case is a capacitor. The memory 30 is via a control circuit 31 , which controls the power supply (in English a Power Manager Unit PMU), with the integrated circuit 5 connected. The control circuit 31 contains a comparator 32 , which determines the state of charge of the memory 30 compares with a threshold and, if the threshold is exceeded, the integrated circuit 5 via a field effect transistor 33 powered. The integrated circuit 5 contains, among other things, a pressure sensor and controls a transmitter 34 which emits high-frequency signals, one of the integrated circuit 5 provided information content, z. As an indication of the tire pressure, an identifier, information about the tire, its mileage, etc. These signals can, for. B. transmitted at a frequency of 433 MHz.

The circuit further includes a receiving antenna, in particular a magnetic antenna, shown as a winding 35 , which is susceptible to relatively low frequency signals, for example, for signals of 125 KHz. These signals can be used on the one hand to control signals and data to the integrated circuit 5 to transfer what the winding 35 via lines 36 and 37 with two inputs of the integrated circuit 5 connected is. The from the winding 35 However, received low-frequency signals can also be used to the memory 30 charge. In this case, the signals become the rectifier 28 fed.

The memory 30 is designed so that its charge is sufficient for multiple measurements and transmissions when fully charged. The measurement and transmission operations can z. B. in each case be triggered when the state of charge of the memory 30 exceeds a predetermined limit. Since the mechanical-electrical converter 27 with each wheel revolution a certain amount of charge for the memory 30 can thus be measured and sent more frequently with increasing speed. However, the frequency of measurement and transmission can be done by the integrated circuit 5 be limited when the state of charge is high, so as not to measure and send unnecessarily often.

During slow driving or at standstill, when the limit of the state of charge is exceeded, the control circuit 31 the integrated circuit 5 switch off. When the state of charge of the memory 30 the predetermined limit of the state of charge of the memory 30 again exceeds, the integrated circuit 5 be reactivated and resume its measurement and transmission operations.

The mechanical-electrical converter 27 provides two distinct electrical impulses of different polarity each time the tire passes through the tire. This can be the integrated circuit 5 distinguish between standstill and ride and recognize the speed of the vehicle. At higher speeds, the memory becomes 30 fed so much electrical energy that not only regular, z. B. every 10 seconds, the tire pressure can be measured and sent, but also characteristic data of the tire, in particular a tire identifier, a tire type and a cumulative number of revolutions can be transmitted as a measure of its mileage.

From the time interval of the two striking pulses that are generated during the latency run, the latitudinal length can be determined. This is an important safety aspect because the latitudinal length depends not only on the degree of inflation of the tire, but also on the load of the vehicle. As the loading increases, the latitudinal length increases. An impermissibly high load can be detected by evaluating the measured lane length and signaled to the driver. The determination of the latitudinal length is also important because it also determines the wear to which the tire is subject.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

Printed circuit film

2

first circular area

3

second circular area, circuit carrier

4

web

5

integrated circuit with pressure sensor

6

module

7

filter

8th

Spacer made of plastic

8a

Bottom of 8th , convex side

9

seal

10

cap

11

Opening in 10 , Access

12

flange

13

potting compound

13a

Peripheral surface of 13

14

Opening in 5 , Access

15

annular shoulder

16

free space

17

piezodisc

18

metal disc

19

bonding agent

20

Inside of the tire

21

tires

22

contact point

23

conductor path

24

conductor path

25

arc

26

conductor path

27

converter

28

rectifier

29

diodes

30

Storage

31

control circuit

32

comparator

33

Field Effect Transistor

34

transmitter

35

Winding, receiving antenna

36

management

37

management

QUOTES INCLUDE IN THE DESCRIPTION

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Cited patent literature

• DE 60310104 T2 [0001]
• WO 2010/092171 A2 [0002]
• WO 2007/099159 A1 [0002]
• DE 102004031810 A1 [0002]
• US 2007/0074566 A1 [0002]

Claims (18)

Tire module for mounting on an inner side ( 20 ) of an air tire ( 21 ) for vehicles, with a device ( 5 ) for measuring and / or monitoring the air pressure in the tire, with a transmitter ( 34 ) for transmitting radio signals containing information about the air pressure in the tire ( 21 ), with a mechanical-electrical converter ( 17 . 18 . 2 ) with a bendable circular disk-shaped piezoelectric element ( 17 ), which depends on the rolling tire ( 21 ) caused changing shape changes of the piezoelectric element ( 17 ) converts into electrical energy, hereinafter referred to as piezoelectric disk and at which an electrical voltage generated by the piezoelectric effect is tapped at contact points, and with a memory ( 30 ) for the electrical energy, which with the transducer ( 17 . 18 . 2 ), characterized in that the contact points on opposite sides of the piezoelectric disk ( 17 ) are located. Tire module according to claim 1, characterized in that a contact point by a circular metal disc ( 18 ) is formed, which a first side of the piezo disc ( 17 ) is completely covered and is so thin and flexible that, as the tire module passes through the tire, it ( 21 ) occurring deformations of the tire ( 1 ) on the piezo disk ( 17 ) can transmit. Tire module according to claim 2, characterized in that the metal disc ( 18 ) has a larger diameter than the piezo disk ( 17 ). Tire module according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the second side of the piezoelectric disk ( 17 ) only partially with at least one contact point ( 22 ), preferably with several contact points ( 22 ), which are electrically connected to each other. Tire module according to claim 4, characterized in that the one or more contact points ( 22 ) on the second side of the piezo disk ( 17 ) are arranged centrally. Tire module according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that the one or more contact points ( 22 ) on the second side of the piezo disk ( 17 ) at most 20%, preferably at most 10%, of the surface of the second side of the piezo disk ( 17 ) cover. Tire module according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the piezo disk ( 17 ) between the metal disc ( 18 ) on the first side and a flexible printed circuit film ( 1 ) on the second side of the piezo disk ( 17 ) is arranged. Tire module according to claim 7, characterized in that the metal disc ( 18 ) on the piezo disk ( 17 ) liable. Tire module according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that the conductor foil ( 1 ), which the first side of the piezo disc ( 17 ), a circular area ( 2 ) formed by a bridge ( 4 ), which preferably also consists of the conductor foil and from the edge of the circular area ( 2 ), with a circuit carrier ( 3 ) connected is. Tire module according to claim 9, characterized in that the circuit carrier ( 3 ) also from the conductor foil ( 1 ), preferably forms a circular area and the two circular areas ( 2 . 3 ) through the bridge ( 4 ) are integrally connected with each other, coincide in diameter and with the interposition of a circular spacer ( 8th ) are arranged one above the other and preferably coaxial with each other. Tire module according to claim 10, characterized in that the spacer ( 8th ) on its the piezo disk ( 17 ) facing side is convex. Tire module according to claim 10 or 11, characterized in that between the spacer ( 8th ) and of the conductor foil ( 1 ) formed circular surface ( 2 ), which the piezo disc ( 17 ), a sealing ring ( 9 ) is provided. Tire module according to claim 11 or 12, characterized in that the components of the tire module, with the exception of a free space ( 16 ) between the convex side ( 8a ) of the spacer ( 8th ) and the convex side ( 8a ) of the spacer ( 8th ) facing circular surface ( 2 ) and with the exception of the piezo disk ( 17 ) facing away from the metal disc ( 18 ) in an electrically insulating potting compound ( 13 ) are embedded. Tire module according to claim 13, characterized in that the solidified potting compound ( 13 ) has a substantially cylindrical peripheral surface ( 13a ) Has. Tire module according to claim 14, characterized in that a cap ( 10 ), which receives the molded tire module and a flange ( 12 ) for connecting the cap ( 10 ) with the inside ( 20 ) of the tire ( 21 ) Has. Tire module according to claim 15, characterized in that the height of the potted Tire module including the solidified potting compound ( 13 ), in which the tire module is embedded, opposite the clear height of the empty cap ( 10 ) has an excess. Air tires for vehicles, on the inside ( 20 ) a tire module according to any one of the preceding claims is fixed so that a deformation of the inside ( 20 ) of the air tire ( 21 ) a reversible deformation of the metal disc ( 18 ) and the piezo disk ( 17 ). Air tire according to claim 17, characterized in that the metal disc ( 18 ) of the inside ( 20 ) of the air tire ( 21 ) is applied, preferably with pressure.

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