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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2005
Applicants:
Karl Rothamel, Ober-Ramstadt, DE;
Burkhard Merg, Bickenbach, DE;
Gerhard Rossteuscher, Bodolz, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Snap-On Equipment GmbH, Pfungstadt, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for balancing a vehicle wheel, the wheel when fixed to a main shaft of a balancing machine, after the implementation of a wheel unbalance measuring run, is stopped at a given rotational angular position for a balancing operation to be carried out on the wheel, by braking of the rotary movement of the wheel. When the wheel is in the stopped condition, a braking moment derived from the unbalance measurement result and applied by a holding brake is caused to act on the wheel so that the wheel is prevented from rotating of its own accord by virtue of its static unbalance.