Tire mounting method
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsSaeko KOMATSU, Yoshito Otake
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Abstract
A tire mounting apparatus is constructed from a first working mechanism and a second working mechanism that are separate from each other. The first working mechanism is provided with a tire holding device for holding a tire and with a temporary tightening device for temporarily tightening nuts onto hub bolts to which the tire is mounted. The second working mechanism is provided with a final tightening device means for finally tightening the temporarily tightened nuts. The final tightening device includes two nut runners and an interval adjuster for adjusting an interval between the two nut runners.
Claims4
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A tire mounting method carried out by a first tightening unit including a plurality of nut tighteners for tightening nuts on hub bolts, and a second tightening unit including a plurality of nut tighteners in a layout different from the first tightening unit, the second tightening unit being replaceable by the first tightening unit, the tire mounting method comprising:
- a rotational drive power generating step of generating rotational drive power for tightening the nuts;
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- a rotational drive power transmitting step of transmitting the rotational drive power from the rotational drive power generator to the nut tighteners of the first tightening unit or the second tightening unit,
- wherein a rotational axis along which the rotational drive power is transmitted is offset when at least one of the first tightening unit and the second tightening unit is used in the rotational drive power transmitting step.
A tire mounting method carried out by a tire mounting apparatus, including a first working mechanism having tire grippers and nut tighteners, and a second working mechanism for generating rotational drive power to tighten nuts, the tire mounting method comprising:
- a nut holding step of holding a plurality of nuts on the nut tighteners of the first working mechanism;
- a tire gripping step of gripping a tire with the tire grippers of the first working mechanism;
- a tire positioning step of positioning the tire with respect to a tire mounting region of a motor vehicle with the first working mechanism;
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- a nut tightening step of transmitting the rotational drive power from the second working mechanism to the nut tighteners of the first working mechanism in order to tighten the nuts respectively on a plurality of hub bolts of the motor vehicle while the tire is gripped by the tire grippers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.