Tire mounting method using a tire mounting device
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsSaeko Komatsu, Yoshito Otake
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Abstract
A tire mounting method for automatically mounting tires onto hub bolts of a motor vehicle using a tire mounting device having a first working mechanism and a second working mechanism. The method includes feeding the motor vehicle intermittently so that hub bolts of a front wheel and hub bolts of a rear wheel are successively positioned in a tire mounting station. Tires are gripped by a tire gripping unit of the first working mechanism, and nuts are successively temporarily tightened onto hub bolts of front and rear wheels to which the tires are mounted. The nuts, which have been temporarily tightened, are then fully tightened using the second working mechanism.
Claims5
A tire mounting method for automatically mounting tires onto hub bolts of a motor vehicle, comprising the steps of:
- feeding the motor vehicle intermittently so that hub bolts of a front wheel and hub bolts of a rear wheel are successively positioned in a tire mounting station, gripping one of the tires by a tire gripping unit of a first working mechanism, and temporarily tightening nuts on the hub bolts of the front wheel on which said one of the tires has been placed with the first working mechanism, and gripping another of the tires by the tire gripping unit of the first working mechanism, and temporarily tightening nuts on the hub bolts of the rear wheel on which said other of the tires has been placed with the first working mechanism, successively;
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- after the nuts are temporarily tightened, feeding the motor vehicle intermittently so that the hub bolts of the front wheel and the hub bolts of the rear wheel are successively positioned in the tire mounting station, and fully tightening the nuts, which have been temporarily tightened by the first working mechanism, with a second working mechanism having no tire gripping unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.