TORQUE MEASUREMENT ARRANGEMENT FOR MOTOR VEHICLES

摘要

An arrangement has a measurement hub (26) with a first and a second marginal area (24, 32), a first adapter (20) which is secured to the first marginal area (24) of the measurement hub (26) and which is to be mounted on a vehicle hub (10), as well as a second adapter (36) which is secured to the second marginal area (32) of the measurement hub (26) and upon which is to be mounted a wheel disk (48). The wheel disk (48) is part of a testing wheel (40) and has an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of the vehicle hub (20). The testing wheel (40) has a rim (42) which corresponds to the rim of a vehicle wheel which normally is to be mounted on the vehicle hub (10). The measurement hub (26) is arranged substantially in the radial direction within the wheel disk (48) of the control wheel (40). The connection established by the measurement hub (26) and both adapters (20, 36) between the vehicle hub (10) and the testing wheel (40) is sized in the axial direction in such a way that the mid-plane (C) of the rim of the testing wheel (40) has the same relative position with respect to the vehicle hub (10) as the mid-plane of the rim of the vehicle wheel replaced by the control wheel (40), when the vehicle wheel is directly secured to the vehicle hub (10).