Patent ID: 9702780
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: G01M

Claim:
1. An improved vehicle wheel balancer system having a balancer spindle shaft on which a vehicle wheel assembly is mounted for rotational movement and a processing system configured with software instructions to conduct at least an imbalance measurement procedure to identify at least one imbalance correction weight amount and placement location for application to said vehicle wheel assembly, the improvement comprising: said processing system being further configured with software instructions to detect a rotational mounting position deviation associated with said vehicle wheel assembly about an axis of said balancer spindle shaft occurring between an initial measurement of vehicle wheel assembly imbalance and a subsequent measurement of the vehicle wheel assembly imbalance following application of said at least one imbalance correction weight to the vehicle wheel assembly; wherein said vehicle wheel assembly is not remounted on said balancer spindle shaft between said initial measurement and said subsequent measurement.