Patent ID: 9212964
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G01B,G01M,G01P

Abstract:
1. A method for maintaining and repairing wheels, comprising the steps of: pivoting a pivot member, upon which is mounted at least one sensing device for scanning a wheel surface or a part of the wheel surface and accelerometer means measuring accelerations in two predetermined orthogonal directions, about a pivot axis in a plane perpendicular to the wheel axis, scanning, with the sensing device, the wheel surface or a part of the wheel surface during the pivoting motion of the pivot member, measuring, with the accelerometer means, accelerations of the sensing device in two predetermined orthogonal directions during the pivoting motion of the pivot member, determining the angular position of the at least one sensing device from the measured accelerations, by computing means, and determining the geometrical dimensions of the scanned wheel surface in dependence of the angular position, by the computing means, wherein the determined geometrical dimensions are used to perform wheel balancing.