Determining toe of rear and front vehicle wheels.
Abstract
An improved method, and apparatus for performing the method, is disclosed for measuring and correcting the individual toe of pairs of steerable and non-steerable wheels of a vehicle relative to a longitudinal centerline passing through the midpoints of the wheel pairs. The improved methods utilize aimable alignment heads which are alternately mounted on the non-steerable wheels and the steerable wheels and are sighted only once on targets on the other wheels thereby eliminating the need for resighting after each toe adjustment is made. Optical cross-toe paths of each head operate in a continuous mode and provide a running display of incremental toe angle adjustments of one wheel while the toe display value associated with the other wheel of the pair is frozen, which other wheel is not being adjusted for toe.
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14 members in 9 offices
Priority claims2
| Document | Office | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41888182 | United States of America | A | |
| 8301402 | United States of America | W |
Members14
| Document | Office | Kind | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IT8322913D0 | Italy | D0 | |
| WO8401213A1 | World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) | A1 | |
| EP0120910A1 | European Patent Office (EPO) | A1 | |
| JPS59501759A | Japan | A | |
| IT8322913A1 | Italy | A1 | |
| US4523844A | United States of America | A | |
| AU561475B2 | Australia | B2 | |
| IT1167199B | Italy | B | |
| IT8322913A0 | Italy | A0 | |
| MX155244A | Mexico | A | |
| EP0120910B1 | European Patent Office (EPO) | B1 | |
| AT33307T | Austria | T | |
| ATE33307T1This record | Austria | T1 | |
| DE3376138D1 | Germany | D1 |
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| Ceased as to paragraph 5 lit. 3 law introducing patent treatiesCeasedRER | RER |
Numbers
- Application
- 83903245
Titles2
- German
- SPURMESSUNG DER HINTEREN UND VORDEREN RADSAETZE EINES AUTOMOBILS.
- English
- TOE MEASUREMENT OF THE REAR AND FRONT WHEELS OF A CAR.
Classification
- CPC, 4
- G01B11/26
- G01B11/2755
- G01B2210/26
- G01B2210/283
- IPC, 3
- G01B7 315
- G01B11 26
- G01B11 275