Machine for balancing the wheels of a vehicle
AssigneeSicam S.R.L.
InventorMarco Montanari
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Abstract
The machine for balancing the wheels of a vehicle includes a supporting frame provided with a rotating shaft adapted to support and set a wheel (R) to be balanced in rotation; detection means for detecting the unbalance of the wheel (R); identification means for identifying at least one portion of the wheel (R) for the measurement of characteristic parameters, which includes an emitter of laser radiation along an optical emission path lying at least partly on a predefined plane of emission (X-Y); and a detector to receive the laser radiation and arranged along an optical receiving path; reflection means adapted to deflect the optical emission path and the optical receiving path, the optical emission path being substantially coincident with the optical receiving path.
Claims12
A machine for balancing the wheels of a vehicle, comprising;
- a supporting frame provided with a rotating shaft adapted to support and set a wheel to be balanced in rotation around a relevant axis of rotation;
- detection means for detecting the unbalance of the wheel mounted on said frame;
- identification means for identifying at least one portion of said wheel for the measurement of characteristic parameters, which are mounted on said frame and comprise:
- an emitter of laser radiation along an optical emission path lying at least partly on predefined plane of emission;
- and
- a detector to receive said laser radiation and arranged along an optical receiving path;
- and further comprising:
- reflection means adapted to deflect said optical emission path and said optical receiving path;
- and said optical emission path is substantially coincident with said optical receiving path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.