ROLLER CLAMP TYPE WHEEL INSPECTION DEVICE

• Main Authors: WATANABE SHINICHI, NABESHIMA KOICHI, SEKINO HIROSHI, HIGUCHI YUKIO, FUKUDA YUTAKA, NISHIZAWA YUKIMASA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.03.1989
• Subjects: MEASURING; PHYSICS; TESTING; TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES ORSTRUCTURES; TESTING STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

PURPOSE:To measure and inspect the characteristic of a wheel with high accuracy by clamping both sides of the wheel placed on a floating table, by a suitable number of rolls, and detecting the relative inclination angle of the wheel against a prescribed reference line. CONSTITUTION:An inspection device 10 is provided with inside and outside rolls assembling bodies 16, 17, and both the assembling bodies can be allowed to approach and separated freely along a prescribed linear path to each other, and provided so as to be freely rotatable around a prescribed center axis. On the assembling bodies 16, 17, a pair of angle detecting rolls 20ti, 20to are provided, respectively, and both rolls can be allowed to approach and separated freely, and when they are brought into contact with both sides of a wheel W and have clamped the wheel W, a toe angle can be detected by detecting an angle against a reference line G. Also, on the assembling body 17, an angle detecting roller 20c is provided, allowed to bring into contact with the side face of the outside of the wheel W, and a camber angle can be detected. Moreover, a floating table 32 being freely movable and rotatable in the horizontal direction is provided, and when the wheel W is placed thereon, and is clamped by the rollers 20ti, 20to, the wheel W moves together with the table 32 and positioning can be executed.