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US 8,769,807 B2Granted
Apparatus for processing a tire-wheel assembly including weight application and balancing sub-stations
AssigneeAndroid Industries LLC
InventorsLawrence J. Lawson, Robert Reece, Ramsey Richard Niazy
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Abstract
An apparatus for processing a tire-wheel assembly comprising a single-cell workstation including a plurality of sub-stations. The plurality of sub-stations includes a weight application sub-station, and an audit balancing sub-station. The apparatus also includes a tire/wheel transporting device positioned within reach of all of the plurality of sub-stations. A method is also disclosed.
Claims10
An apparatus for processing a tire-wheel assembly, comprising:
- a single-cell workstation including a plurality of sub-stations, wherein the plurality of sub-stations includes;
- a preliminary balancing substation,
- a weight application sub-station,
- wherein the weight application sub-station provides one or more weights to an imbalanced tire-wheel assembly,
- an audit balancing sub-station;
- wherein the audit balancing sub-station determines if the imbalanced tire-wheel assembly condition has been substantially corrected in view of the one or more weights applied to the tire-wheel assembly, and
- a tire/wheel transporting device positioned within reach of all of the plurality of sub-stations,
- wherein the tire/wheel transporting device includes a robotic arm that provides means for transporting the tire-wheel assembly from and to each of the plurality of sub-stations.
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An apparatus for processing a tire-wheel assembly, comprising:
- a single-cell workstation including a plurality of sub-stations, wherein the plurality of sub-stations includes;
- a preliminary balancing sub-station,
- a weight application sub-station, and
- an audit balancing sub-station;
- and
- a tire/wheel transporting device positioned within reach of all of the plurality of sub-stations
- wherein the tire/wheel transporting device includes a robotic arm that provides means for transporting the tire-wheel assembly from and to each of the plurality of sub-stations,
- wherein the plurality of sub-stations includes one or more of:
- a soaper sub-station;
- a mounting/indexing sub-station;
- and an inflating sub-station.
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An apparatus for processing a tire-wheel assembly, comprising:
- a single-cell workstation including a plurality of sub-stations, wherein the plurality of sub-stations includes;
- a balancer grounding sub-station, and
- a weight application sub-station;
- and
- a tire/wheel transporting device positioned within reach of all of the plurality of sub-stations,
- wherein the tire/wheel transporting device provides means for determining if the tire-wheel assembly is imbalanced,
- wherein the tire/wheel transporting device includes a robotic arm that provides means for transporting the tire-wheel assembly from and to each of the plurality of sub-stations, and
- wherein the tire/wheel transporting device further provides means for determining if the imbalance tire-wheel assembly has been substantially corrected in view of the one or more weights applied to the tire-wheel assembly.
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An apparatus for processing a tire-wheel assembly, comprising:
- a first single-cell workstation including a first plurality of sub-stations, wherein the first plurality of sub-stations includes;
- a preliminary balancing sub-station;
- a first tire/wheel transporting device positioned within reach of all of the first plurality of sub-stations,
- wherein the first tire/wheel transporting device includes a robotic arm that provides means for transporting the tire-wheel assembly from and to each of the plurality of sub-stations,
- a second single-cell workstation including a second plurality of sub-stations, wherein the second plurality of sub-stations includes;
- a weight application sub-station, and
- an audit balancing sub-station;
- a second tire/wheel transporting device positioned within reach of all of the second plurality of sub-stations,
- wherein the second tire/wheel transporting device includes a robotic arm that provides means for transporting the tire-wheel assembly from and to each of the plurality of sub-stations;
- and
- a conveying device that bridges the first and second single-cell workstations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.