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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 07, 2014
Applicant:

Hunter Engineering Company, St. Louis, MO (US);

Inventors:

James W. McClenahan, St. Louis, MO (US);

Michael T. Stieff, Wentzville, MO (US);

John M. Boncek, Maryland Heights, MO (US);

Timothy A. Strege, Sunset Hills, MO (US);

Nicholas J. Colarelli, III, Creve Coeur, MO (US);

Assignee:

Hunter Engineering Company, St. Louis, MO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/275 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/2755 (2013.01); G01B 2210/12 (2013.01); G01B 2210/143 (2013.01); G01B 2210/20 (2013.01); G01B 2210/24 (2013.01); G01B 2210/28 (2013.01); G01B 2210/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle wheel service system including a plurality of sensors positioned in proximity to a heavy-duty multi-axle vehicle, to measure angles associated with three or more axles of the vehicle without repositioning the mounting of the sensors after initiating a measurement procedure. Additional sensors, associated with a vehicle reference, such as the vehicle frame axis, are disposed to provide vehicle reference measurement data which is communicated to a processing system. The processing system is configured with software instructions to evaluate the measurement data and to determine various vehicle wheel alignment angle measurements and/or necessary vehicle adjustments for each axle relative to the vehicle reference or to a fixed axle having a determined relationship to the vehicle reference.


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