ELECTRIC BRAKE DEVICE

An electric brake device is provided which is capable of early detecting presence/absence of abnormality in the brake device during the traveling of a vehicle in the absence of the operation of a brake application device. A control device (9) includes: an abnormality detecting operation controller (36b) which operates the electric motor (2) according to a predetermined condition during the traveling of the vehicle in the absence of the operation of the brake application device (40). The device (9) further includes an abnormality detector (37) which obtains a measured value of a predetermined item related to the vehicle when the electric motor is operated by the abnormality detecting operation controller (36b), and compares the measured value with an estimated value or a set value to detect presence/absence of abnormality in the brake device.