Patents Examined by Bejamin R. Fuller
  • Patent number: 6382020
    Abstract: The invention provides a device for testing motor vehicle wheels, tires, wheel hubs, wheel bearings, and wheel bolts under loading conditions similar to operating conditions, including a mounting device for pivoting attachment of a vehicle wheel; a drum arranged around the vehicle wheel in such a way that the vehicle wheel can be brought into rolling contact with the inner circumferential surface of the drum; a vertical or radial loading device which, in order to apply a vertical or radial force acting in the vertical or radial direction of the vehicle wheel onto the mounting device, is connected with the latter; a lateral or axial loading device for applying a lateral or axial force acting in the lateral or axial direction of the vehicle wheel, in order to apply the lateral or axial force onto the mounting device, the lateral or axial loading device being connected with the mounting device; at least one ring located on the inner circumferential surface of the drum, which ring is arranged as a thrust ring adj
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V.
    Inventors: Gerhard Fischer, Vatroslav Grubisic, Jürgen Klock