Automotive starter testing apparatus utilizing regulator controlled feedback

• US 3,179,887 A
• Filed: 01/11/1960
• Issued: 04/20/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ranza A. Crumbliss
• Original Assignee: Ranza A. Crumbliss
• Inventors: Crumbliss, Ranza A.
• Application Number:
  US04/001,715
• Time in Patent Office: 1,926 Days
• US Class Current: 73/114.59
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/006 on road vehicles, e.g. automobiles or trucks testing of ignition installations peculiar to internal combustion engines F02P17/00

Claims

1. AN APPARATUS FOR TESTING A STARTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLES UNDER OPERATING CONDITIONS, WHICH STARTER INCLUDES A SHAFT AND A GEAR ROTATABLE BY THE SHAFT, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A FRAME, MEANS FOR CONNECTING A SOURCE OF ELECTRICAL POWER TO THE STARTER TO BE TESTED, A GENERATOR FIXEDLY MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME AND HAVING A SHAFT, A RESISTANCE LOAD, MEANS FOR COUPLING THE OUTPUT CURRENT OF SAID GENERATOR TO SAID RESISTANCE LOAD, A GEAR ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID FRAME, MEANS FOR COUPLING SAID GEAR IN DRIVING RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID GENERATOR SHAFT, MOUNTING MEANS ON SAID FRAME LOCATED TO POSITION THE STARTER GEAR IN DRIVING RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID ROTATABLY MOUNTED GEAR WHEN THE STARTER IS ACTIVATED, A REGULATOR ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID GENERATOR AND SAID STARTER WHEREBY THE ELECTRICAL OUTPUT OF SAID GENERATOR MAY BE CONNECTED TO THE INPUT OF SAID STARTER, MEANS FOR DETERMING THE INPUT CURRENT TO THE STARTER, AND MEANS FOR DETERMINING THE OUTPUT CURRENT OF SAID GENERATOR.