Patent ID: 7661198

Claim:
A toe angle measuring apparatus including a measuring unit for measuring a toe angle of a wheel of a vehicle, wherein said measuring unit comprises: a seating table for seating said wheel or a mount for said wheel at a fixed position, said seating table being movable in at least a transverse direction of the vehicle or a rotational direction of said seating table as viewed in plan with respect to a predetermined base member; a measured member having a vertical measurement surface extending outwardly from said seating table; a pair of distance measuring means for measuring respective distances from two positions which are spaced from each other by a predetermined distance, to said measurement surface with respect to said base member; and toe angle calculating means for calculating said toe angle based on measured values from said distance measuring means; wherein said measurement surface of said measured member is oriented at an acute angle with respect to the transverse direction of the vehicle as viewed in plan at least when a measurement is made.