Patent · US Expired

Apparatus for balancing vehicle wheels

US6622551B2 · kind B2 · utility

2Cited by

10References

20Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Snap-On Equipment GmbH · GB

Inventors

Klaus Ruhl · Wenigumstadt, DE
Andreas Ries · Darmstadt, DE
Eberhard Klett · Darmstadt, DE
Dieter Fornoff · Darmstadt, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 16, 2001
Grant date	Sep 23, 2003
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 16, 2021

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01M1/02
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An apparatus for balancing vehicle wheels, comprising a machine frame 10, a main shaft 12 which is mounted rotatably in the machine frame 10 and on which a vehicle wheel to be balanced can be clamped, and a guard hood 20 which at least partially engages over the vehicle wheel to be balanced and which has a stationary guard hood element 22 and a movable guard hood element 24 which is movable reversibly from an operative position into an inoperative position, wherein an operating and display unit 40 is arranged in the region of the end 22a of the stationary guard hood element 22, which faces into the operative position of the movable guard hood element 24.

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