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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael W. Douglas, St. Peters, MO (US);
David M. Scribner, St. Charles, MO (US);
Assignee:
Hunter Engineering Company, Bridgeton, MO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 1/16 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 1/16 ;
Abstract
A wheel balancer includes a method that provides a centering check for a wheel that is based on measuring wheel runout. The wheel is mounted on a spindle of the wheel balancer and runout measurements are taken. The wheel is remounted on the spindle and runout measurements are taken again. The wheel balancer has a processor that checks the differences in the runout measurements according to a predetermined threshold for proper centering. The wheel balancer can compensate for the difference in the runout measurements and can signal the user of the wheel balancer to remount the wheel.