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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yutaka Naruse, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Bridgestone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 5/24 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 5/24 ;
Abstract
A tire position detecting device which correctly and accurately detects a position of a wheel of a vehicle loaded on a wheel alignment adjusting device. A jig is mounted to a disk wheel flange of a wheel. A second wire for measurement is pulled out from a distance measuring device, and a second anchoring hardware is made to catch on a first anchoring hardware of the jig. When the second wire for measurement is pulled out from the distance measuring device, a shaft of a rotary encoder rotates by an amount corresponding to a pulled-out amount, thus enabling accurate and precise measurement of dimensions.