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US 2025/0060268 A1Published application
Robotized tire-changing and balancing workstation and associated method
OwnerHamza Fokraouiinventor
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Abstract
A tire-changing and balancing workstation comprises a tire changer, a wheel balancer and a robot. A method allows the robot to pick up a wheel and tire assembly assembled on the tire changer and transfer it to the wheel balancer without human intervention.
Claims18
A tire-changing and balancing workstation comprising:
- a tire changer for mounting a tire on a wheel, to thereby create a wheel and tire assembly;
- a wheel balancer for balancing the wheel and tire assembly;
- a robot having:
- a manipulator, the manipulator having a wrist and a gripper connected to the wrist, the gripper being operable to grip the wheel and tire assembly;
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- a controller connected to the manipulator,
- wherein the manipulator is placed within reach of both the tire changer and the wheel balancer so as to grip and transfer the wheel and tire assembly in a transfer operation from the tire changer to the wheel balancer.
4 more elements
A method of manipulating a wheel and tire assembly in a tire-changing and balancing workstation, the wheel and tire assembly being made of a tire mounted on a wheel, the method comprising:
- transferring the wheel and tire assembly from a tire changer to a wheel balancer using a manipulator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.