Onboard weighing system for truck having single point suspension

Details Onboard weighing system for truck having single point suspension Onboard weighing system for truck having single point suspension

1996-11-20

1999-03-09

Gibson, Randy W.

Weighing scales

Structural installation

Vehicle

G01G 1902

Patent

active

058804099

ABSTRACT:
A trunnion mount single point vehicle suspension including a load monitoring apparatus. The suspension includes a trunnion shaft, means for attaching the shaft to a vehicle frame and an axle spring assembly mounted to the trunnion shaft and spaced from the attachment means. It also includes strain measuring means mounted in the trunnion shaft between the attaching means and the axle spring assembly for measuring changes in the shaft. In one embodiment the means for attaching the trunnion shaft to the vehicle frame is a trunnion hanger mounted inboard of the axle spring assembly. In another embodiment the attaching means is a clevis bracket which straddles the axle spring assembly. Also disclosed is a load monitoring apparatus for measuring the weight imposed by the trailer at its mounting point on the tractor. The apparatus includes at least one pin load cell having spaced shear strain measuring means and trailer mounting means attached to the pin cell intermediate the shear strain measuring means.

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Yorgiadis, The Shear Pin Force Transducer, Striansert Company, West Conschohocken, PA, May, 1979.
Hutchens Industries, H-900 Single Point Suspension Series, Springfield, MO, Sep. 1992.

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