US 12,174,089 B2
Tire testing device
Sigeru Matsumoto, Tokyo (JP); Hiroshi Miyashita, Tokyo (JP); Kazuhiro Murauchi, Tokyo (JP); and Shuichi Tokita, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to KOKUSAI KEISOKUKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KOKUSAI KEISOKUKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tama (JP)
Filed on Oct. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/385,562.
Application 18/385,562 is a continuation of application No. 17/071,252, filed on Oct. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,867,588.
Application 17/071,252 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/JP2019/016890, filed on Apr. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-081379 (JP), filed on Apr. 20, 2018; and application No. 2018-092607 (JP), filed on May 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0060858 A1, Feb. 22, 2024
Int. Cl. G01M 17/02 (2006.01); B60C 19/00 (2006.01); B60C 25/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01M 17/02 (2013.01) [B60C 19/00 (2013.01); B60C 25/002 (2013.01); G01M 17/021 (2013.01); B60C 2019/004 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tire testing device, comprising:
a road surface part having a road surface;
a carriage configured to rotatably hold a test wheel provided with a test tire and being capable of travelling along the road surface in a state where the test wheel is made to contact the road surface; and
a load detecting part provided on an upper surface of the road surface part, the load detecting part having a detecting surface coplanar with the road surface and extending in a travelling direction of the carriage and an axial direction of the test wheel, and configured to detect distribution of load acting on an area of a tire tread of the test tire in contact with the detecting surface.