Force feedback system for bead exerciser
AssigneeInternational Wheel & Tire Company
InventorsKeith Martin Smiley, Todd Allen Campbell, Daniel Jonathan Ehlke, Harsh Suresh Shah
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Abstract
A bead exerciser system for an automated wheel assembly may include a center lift configured to lift a wheel assembly off of a conveyor belt, a drum roller configured to rotate the wheel assembly, a pair of pinch rollers driven by a driver and configured to apply force to a tire of the wheel assembly, a force sensor configured to detect a force of the tire against the pinch rollers, and a controller configured to receive the force from the force sensor and generate a command for an alert in response to the force falling outside of a predefined threshold range.
Claims16
A bead exerciser system for an automated wheel assembly, comprising:
- a center lift configured to lift a wheel assembly off of a conveyor belt;
- a drum roller configured to rotate the wheel assembly;
- a pair of pinch rollers driven by a driver and configured to apply force to a tire of the wheel assembly;
- a feedback component configured to detect a force of the tire against the pinch rollers;
- and
- a controller configured to receive the force from the feedback component and generate a command for an alert in response to the force falling outside of a predefined threshold range.
A bead exerciser system for an automated wheel assembly, comprising:
- a drum roller configured to rotate a wheel assembly;
- a pair of pinch rollers arranged on an opposite side of the wheel assembly than the drum roller, the pinch rollers driven by a driver and configured to apply force to a tire of the wheel assembly;
- a controller configured to
- instruct the pinch rollers to apply a force until a predefined threshold is reached;
- and
- store a pinch-roller distance between the pinch rollers in response to the predefined threshold being reached in a memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.