| 摘要 |
A modular, portable, drive-through tire tread wear and brake testing system including a tire tread wear analyzer and flat plate brake tester housed in an intermodal cargo shipping container. Doors open on opposing sides of the container to permit a vehicle to be driven through it and, as the vehicle passes over the floor of the modular container and the flat plate brake tester, its tires are scanned by a flush-mounted tire tread depth scanner. The scanned output, a digitized tread profile, is analyzed for tread depth, tire wear patterns from chronic under- or over-inflation, and wheel misalignment. Cameras trained on the vehicle entering the container that feed video to monitors visible to the driver plus structural components on the floor of the container help to guide the vehicle into position over the scanner. The tire and brake report is generated immediately and transmitted to the appropriate recipient. |
| 主权项 |
1. A system for analyzing treads of tires of a vehicle, said system comprising:
(a) a modular container having and interior, a roof and an opposing floor, a left side and an opposing right side, and a front and an opposing back, and wherein said front carries an openable door that, when opened, defines an entrance into said interior, and wherein said back carries an openable door that, when opened, defines an exit from said interior, said entrance and said exit being dimensioned to pass a vehicle into and out of said modular container; (a) a tire tread analyzer carried by said floor of said modular container, so that, when a vehicle drives into said modular container through said entrance and out of said modular container through said exit, said vehicle drives over said tire tread analyzer and said tire tread analyzer generates an analysis of said treads of said tires of said vehicle; and (c) a sensor in operational control with said tire tread analyzer for detecting said vehicle driving into said entrance and activating said tire tread analyzer. |
