METHOD TO DETERMINE VALUE AND DIRECTION OF DEFORMATIONS OF VEHICLE DAMAGED BODY AT STRAIGHTENING OUT WORKS Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC B21D1/12 B60S5/00 B23P6/00 G01B21/32 

FIELD: mechanical engineering; repair of vehicles.

SUBSTANCE: vehicle with damage body is lifted to preset height relative to floor, and check points on body are chosen. Part of points are arranged of sound part of body. Additional check point is marked on floor under bottom of body. Said point should be located at a distance from bottom not less than one fourth of maximum distance between chosen check points. Distances between all check points are measured, and basing on obtained data, three coordinates of all chosen check points are calculated by computer with determination of distribution of said check points in space. Then, by turning, check points of damage body are registered with similar check points in computer data base belonging to body of standard vehicle. Distribution of check points received in measurement is compared with distribution of check points in standard vehicle and, basing on results of measurement, value and direction of deformations of damaged body are determined.

EFFECT: simplified method at preservation of high accuracy of determination of deformations.

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