Geometrical instruments – Area integrators – Electrical
Patent
1982-09-30
1985-04-02
Haroian, Harry N.
Geometrical instruments
Area integrators
Electrical
33174P, 33180AT, 33138, G01B 5255
Patent
active
045078726
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
DESCRIPTION
The present invention relates to a measuring method and an apparatus for carrying out said method for the purpose of determining the time required for repairing automobile vehicles, and it more particularly relates to the systematic estimation of the time for repairing a vehicle requiring either repairs to the mechanical part of the vehicle or repairs to the body, in particular after accidents, bearing in mind requirements of reconditioning certain parts and replacing other parts of the vehicle.
At the present time, the estimation of the cost of a repair is essentially based on scales of times which are the fruit of after sales services of the constructors based on replacement operations.
The operations for reconditioning, such as rectifying or smoothing out operations on body parts are not calculated. In order to establish a repair time at the present time one must add several times, the precision of which is poor, so that the determination of the overall time has a considerable arbitrary factor.
Another solution resides in awaiting the end of the reconditioning operations in order to know the time it took to carry out these operations.
Now, the ever-increasing interventions on automobile vehicles brought about by the increase in the number of vehicles in circulation and the number of accidents, makes it necessary to have available effective and precise means for determining the time required for a repair.
This necessity is particularly felt in the field of the repairing of bodies implying mostly the intervention of an insurance expert who usually only has a very short time to spend on each damaged vehicle and who consequently needs to use reliable, rapid and precise means of estimating the repair time.
Therefore, an object of the invention is to provide a measuring method for estimating the repair time of an automobile vehicle which calculates the repairs rapidly and precisely.
The invention therefore provides a method for measuring the state of damage to an automobile vehicle comprising employing means for ascertaining the deterioration as a function of the degree of the dent and the nature and number of the damaged parts, said method comprising employing an apparatus having a variable vertical and horizontal position; determining and reading with the aid of this apparatus on a first side of the vehicle, in respect of the lateral part, the height and the degree of the dent due to the impact and its position relative to the median axis of the track; determining and reading by means of the same apparatus on a second side of the vehicle the same data so as to determine the differences; using the same apparatus for determining and reading by means of the apparatus the height and the degree of the dent due to the impact undergone by the front or rear part and its position relative to the median axis of the vehicle, so that, by comparison with the original dimensions of the same vehicle when new which were read off by means of said apparatus, the degree of the vector of deformation may be determined; assigning to these measurements repairing or replacing codes and combining them with damaged zone codes so as to determine an "accident code" which permits, by comparison with similar accidents previously repaired and calculated, performing the function of standards and recorded in a compilation of times, establishing the time required for reconditioning and listing the parts to be repaired or replaced.
Another object of the invention is to provide a measuring apparatus for carrying out the aforementioned method, said apparatus comprising a vertical frame and a support unit for said frame adapted to place it at a predetermined distance from at least one of the tires of the vehicle located in the vicinity of the impact to be assessed, and vertical and horizontal positioning means in the plane of said frame, in confronting relation to the position of the impact, for an element for measuring the degree of the dent in the body of the vehicle.
Further features of the invention will be apparent from the en
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patent: 2341176 (1944-02-01), Buehrig
patent: 3531868 (1970-10-01), Stevenson
patent: 4302883 (1981-12-01), MacGregor
Fallow Charles W.
Garages Mutualistes Francais
Haroian Harry N.
Hoffman Martin P.
Wasson Mitchell B.
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