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.
Claims20
A bead exerciser system, comprising:
- at least one roller driven by a driver and configured to apply force to a tire of a wheel assembly;
- a feedback component configured to detect a force of the tire against the at least one pinch roller;
- 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:
- at least one roller, driven by a driver and configured to apply force to a tire of the wheel assembly;
- a controller configured to
- instruct the at least one roller to apply a force until a predefined threshold is reached;
- and
- store a pinch-roller distance between the roller in response to the predefined threshold being reached in a memory.
A method for validating a force of a bead exerciser system, comprising:
- receiving data from a driver configured to move a roller to create force on a tire;
- determining a force of roller based on the data;
- determining whether the force is within a predefined threshold range;
- and
- instructing an alert in response to the force not being within the predefined threshold range.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.