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2. Wheel alignment - Wikipedia

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   Wheel alignment of a Ford Focus. Wheel alignment, which is sometimes referred to as breaking or tracking, is part of standard automobile maintenance that consists of adjusting the angles of wheels to the car manufacturer specifications. [1] The purpose of these adjustments is to reduce tire wear and to ensure that vehicle travel is straight and ...

3. Caster angle - Wikipedia

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   The caster angle [1] or castor angle [2] is the angular displacement of the steering axis from the vertical axis of a steered wheel in a car, motorcycle, bicycle, other vehicle or a vessel, as seen from the side of the vehicle. The steering axis in a car with dual ball joint suspension is an imaginary line that runs through the center of the ...

4. Self aligning torque - Wikipedia

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   Self aligning torque ( SAT ), also known as aligning torque or aligning moment ( Mz, moment about the z direction ), is the torque that a tire creates as it rolls along, which tends to steer it, i.e. rotate it around its vertical axis. In the presence of a non-zero slip angle, this torque tends to steer the tire toward the direction in which it ...

5. Ackermann steering geometry - Wikipedia

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   Ackermann geometry. The Ackermann steering geometry is a geometric arrangement of linkages in the steering of a car or other vehicle designed to solve the problem of wheels on the inside and outside of a turn needing to trace out circles of different radii . It was invented by the German carriage builder Georg Lankensperger in Munich in 1816 ...

6. Centerlock wheel - Wikipedia

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   The centerlock wheel and hub system was first introduced by Rudge-Whitworth in the early 1900s, for use in automobile wire wheels. Initially called "QD" (for "quickly disconnectable") the basic mechanism for "knock-off" style centerlock hubs was patented by 1908. It was quickly adopted by auto manufacturers and racers.

7. Mecanum wheel - Wikipedia

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   The mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Swedish wheel or Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon (1923–2008), [1] who conceived of the concept while working as an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB, and patented it in the United ...