Patent classifications
B60B29/003
DRIVE SOCKET PROTECTOR FOR LUG NUTS AND WHEELS
The drive socket protector for wheels and lug nuts includes a flexible sheath shaped to define an elongated receptacle having a tubular wall extending from an enclosed end to an open end. The elongated receptacle includes an interior volume configured to receive a socket tool. The socket tool has a lug opening disposed at the enclosed end of the elongated receptacle. The elongated receptacle further includes an exterior surface at the enclosed end that is configured to interface with a lug nut. The tubular wall is flexible and is configured to conform into the lug opening of the socket tool to be disposed between the lug nut and the socket tool when the socket tool is contained within the interior volume of the elongated receptacle.
Wheel nut fitting and/or removal apparatus and method
An apparatus (10) for fitting and/or removing wheel nuts. The apparatus (10) includes a base structure that supports a movable wheel engaging portion, the wheel engaging portion including a socket wrench (23) and a positioning device, wherein the positioning device can be used to locate the wheel engaging portion to aid the socket wrench (23) to fit or remove a wheel nut.
LUG WRENCH WITH SECURE CLAMPING MECHANISM
A lug wrench apparatus comprising a collet-type assembly whereby the socket clamps to the lug nut in a manner similar to the way a collet clamps a router bit. The clamping mechanism can be provided either by a screw-compression, or an eccentric cam compression. Arbitrarily large amounts of torque can be applied by means of an extension which fits over the arm of a wrench that is clamped to the shaft of the collet.
DEVICE REMOVABLY MOUNTED TO A SURFACE BY A QUICK DISCONNECT TOOL AND QUICK DISCONNECT MALE CONNECTOR AND METHODS OF USING THE QUICK DISCONNECT AND MALE CONNECTOR TO REMOVABLY MOUNT THE DEVICE TO THE SURFACE
Provided are a quick disconnect tool and a male connector configured for removably mounting a device on a surface. The tool includes a socket, detents in the socket and a collar to open and close the detents. The male connector fits within the socket and cannot rotate within the socket. The male connector has at a first end a recess into which the detents can lock the male connector inside the socket and threads at a second end opposite the first end. Also provided is a method removably mounting a device to a surface using the quick disconnect too and the male connector.
T-torque wrench
A T-torque wrench contains: a body including a horizontal handle and a vertical extension. The vertical extension has a fitting connector formed on a bottom thereof and configured to fit with sockets of various sizes, and the vertical extension has a strain gauge arranged on one end thereof so as to detect operation torques of the T-torque wrench, the horizontal handle has a tire-pressure detection connector connected on one end thereof. The body includes a casing covered thereon and includes a digital processing unit electrically connected with the strain gauge of the vertical extension and the tire-pressure detection connector of the horizontal handle, the casing includes a display module arranged thereon and electrically connected with the digital processing unit, and the casing includes a control module arranged thereon between the display module and the horizontal handle, wherein the control module is electrically connected with the digital processing unit.
Tool for an impact wrench for securing a vehicle wheel
A screwing tool for an impact wrench for screwing wheel nuts onto and off from a hub body for securing a vehicle wheel, having a main body, which has an open side oriented toward the wheel nuts and which includes a hollow profile. The hollow profile has a tool contour, which is arranged on the open side and can be brought into engagement with a wheel nut contour. At least one peripheral control edge is remote from the open side for releasing a retention element. The control edge has a circular arc region with a constant control edge height h.sub.1 and a cam region with a control edge height h.sub.2 that decreases continuously and then increases again continuously. Height h.sub.1 is equal to h.sub.2 in the respective transition of the circular arc region and the cam region, such that the geometrical shape of an oval is reproduced in cross section.
Quick disconnect tool, quick disconnect male connector and methods of using the quick disconnect and male connector to connect a device to a vehicle wheel
Provided are a quick disconnect tool and a male connector. The tool includes a socket, detents in the socket and a collar to open and close the detents. The male connector fits within the socket and cannot rotate within the socket. The male connector includes a recess into which the detents can lock the male connector inside the socket.
T-TORQUE WRENCH
A T-torque wrench contains: a body including a horizontal handle and a vertical extension. The vertical extension has a fitting connector formed on a bottom thereof and configured to fit with sockets of various sizes, and the vertical extension has a strain gauge arranged on one end thereof so as to detect operation torques of the T-torque wrench, the horizontal handle has a tire-pressure detection connector connected on one end thereof. The body includes a casing covered thereon and includes a digital processing unit electrically connected with the strain gauge of the vertical extension and the tire-pressure detection connector of the horizontal handle, the casing includes a display module arranged thereon and electrically connected with the digital processing unit, and the casing includes a control module arranged thereon between the display module and the horizontal handle, wherein the control module is electrically connected with the digital processing unit.
WHEEL LUG NUT TOOL
A hand operated tool for simultaneously threading a plurality of lug nuts onto corresponding studs of an axle includes a housing having a base onto which a plurality of lug gears, each carrying a lug socket, are rotatably mounted, and a circumferential side wall carrying an annular gear having teeth meshed with teeth of the lug gears. At least one lever arm extends radially away from an outer surface of the circumferential side wall to allow all required studs to be threaded onto a vehicle axle simultaneously.
Fastening
A fastening assembly having torquing members that engage notches on a conical securing member. The torquing members being operable by a wrench and able to exert torque on the securing member at the notches to tighten or loosen the securing member.