Patent ID: 9194767
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G01M

Abstract:
1. A rim exchange apparatus of a tire testing machine comprising: a support part; a turntable installed to be rotated about a rotary shaft with respect to the support part; a plurality of rim placing parts provided to the turntable about the rotary shaft and on which a rim assembly is placed; a reading part attached to the support part at a lower side of the turntable; a plurality of detection pins, which is supported by the turntable, capable of moving upward and downward, and selectively pressed downward by a recess pattern or a protrusion pattern correspondingly formed as a rim identification information on the rim assembly placed on the rim placing part to be moved downward; pressing devices configured to press the detection pins upward, the pressing devices being located around an outer periphery of the detection pins and located in the turntable; and a plurality of through-holes formed in the turntable and the rim placing part, wherein: the reading part is configured to read the rim identification information of a rim assembly placed on the rim placing part at a predetermined reading position through the turntable, the plurality of reading parts are placed corresponding to each of the plurality of the detection pins, and the reading parts comprise non-contact proximity sensors that detect the detection pins moved downward, an upper end of the detection pin is accommodated in and protrudes from a portion of the recess pattern of the rim assembly at a position at which the recess pattern is formed as the rim identification information, the upper end of the detection pin is pressed down by a weight of the rim assembly at a position at which the protrusion pattern is formed as the rim identification information, and the detection pin is pressed downward against a biasing force of the pressing devices.