Patent ID: 11872685
Assignee: AUTOMATED TIRE, INC.
Field: Handling (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 19:
20. A method for changing a tire with an autonomous tire changing system, the method comprising:
providing two or more autonomous traverse tire changing bots, each of the autonomous traverse tire changing bots having
a carriage including a carriage frame, wheels supporting the carriage frame, and a carriage drive section with at least one motor defining at least one degree of freedom powering at least one of the wheels effecting autonomous traverse of the carriage, along a traverse path, relative to a traverse surface or a floor on which the autonomous traverse tire changing bot rests, and
a bot frame including at least one robotic articulated arm mounted to the carriage so that the bot frame traverses with the carriage as a unit along the traverse path, and a bot drive section with a motor defining a bot arm degree of freedom, separate and distinct from the at least one degree of freedom, wherein the at least one robotic articulated arm has an end effector having a wheel or tire engagement tool disposed so that articulation of the at least one robotic articulated arm with the bot arm degree of freedom effects engagement contact of the wheel or tire engagement tool and a wheel or a tire mounted on a vehicle; and

effecting, with a controller communicably connected to the carriage drive section and the bot drive section of each of the autonomous traverse tire changing bots, traverse of one or more of the autonomous traverse tire changing bots along a respective traverse path effecting dynamic positioning of a respective at least one robotic articulated arm of the one or more of the autonomous traverse tire changing bots relative to a variable position of the vehicle with the wheel or tire mounted thereon.