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AssigneeFraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
InventorsGerhard Fischer, Vatroslav Grubisic, Jürgen Klock
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The invention provides a device for testing motor vehicle wheels, tires, wheel hubs, wheel bearings, and wheel bolts under loading conditions similar to operating conditions, including a mounting device for pivoting attachment of a vehicle wheel; a drum arranged around the vehicle wheel in such a way that the vehicle wheel can be brought into rolling contact with the inner circumferential surface of the drum; a vertical or radial loading device which, in order to apply a vertical or radial force acting in the vertical or radial direction of the vehicle wheel onto the mounting device, is connected with the latter; a lateral or axial loading device for applying a lateral or axial force acting in the lateral or axial direction of the vehicle wheel, in order to apply the lateral or axial force onto the mounting device, the lateral or axial loading device being connected with the mounting device; at least one ring located on the inner circumferential surface of the drum, which ring is arranged as a thrust ring adjacent to the tire and the side of the vehicle wheel and is beveled on the side turned toward the tire; and a device for turning the drum; the mounting device including a mount for at least one motorcycle wheel as a vehicle wheel with mounting of the motorcycle wheel on one of two ends of the axle of the same and one-sided attachment of the mount on the remaining part of mounting device.
A device for testing motor vehicle wheels (3), tires (1), wheel hubs (4), wheel bearings (5), and/or wheel bolts under loading conditions similar to operating conditions, said wheels having a wheel contact point, comprising:
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