公开(公告)号：US06660122B1

公开(公告)日：2003-12-09

申请号：US09786619

申请日：2001-05-14

申请人： Amit Prakash ,  David Thomas Reese ,  Frederick Forbes Vannan, Jr. ,  Terry Kenneth Woods

发明人： Amit Prakash ,  David Thomas Reese ,  Frederick Forbes Vannan, Jr. ,  Terry Kenneth Woods

IPC分类号： B29D3000

CPC分类号： B29D30/0005 ,  B29C35/0266 ,  B29C35/0272 ,  B29C35/0805 ,  B29C2035/0811 ,  B29D2030/0674 ,  B29K2021/00 ,  B29K2105/16 ,  B29L2030/00 ,  Y10T152/10513

摘要： A rubber tire component (10, 20, 30, 40) is laden with a mixture of fibers (12). The fibers (12) being sensitive to induction heating can be rapidly cured using a variety of methods. The preferred method permits a selective induction curing of the fiber laden component (10, 20, 30, 40) in combination with conventional curing presses.

摘要翻译： 橡胶轮胎组件（10,20,30,40）装满纤维（12）的混合物。 对感应加热敏感的纤维（12）可以使用各种方法快速固化。 优选的方法允许与传统的固化压力机组合地选择性地感光固化载持纤维的组分（10,20,30,40）。

公开(公告)号：US06793752B2

公开(公告)日：2004-09-21

申请号：US09957731

申请日：2001-09-21

申请人： Michel Lemaire ,  John Kolbjoern Rodseth ,  Francis Cornet

发明人： Michel Lemaire ,  John Kolbjoern Rodseth ,  Francis Cornet

IPC分类号： B29D3000

CPC分类号： B29D30/005 ,  B29D30/26 ,  B29D2030/202

摘要： Method and apparatus for precision longitudinal registration of a movable tire building drum (120, 620) to an automated tire building system (100) work station (110, 610), wherein the automated tire building system comprises one or more work stations with application drums (112), and the tire building drum is moved longitudinally forward (105) into and out of each work station, comprising: providing a work station longitudinal reference point (115, 615) upon a forward-facing surface (115, 615) of a laterally extendible portion (114, 614) of the work station; providing a drum reference point (125, 625) upon a rearward-facing surface (125, 625) of the tire building drum; and after the tire building drum has been moved into a work station, halting the tire building drum movement, laterally extending the work station longitudinal reference point rearward of the tire building drum, and then moving the tire building drum longitudinally rearward to abut the drum reference point against the work station longitudinal reference point. The tire building drum can be moved by a self-propelled vehicle (102, 602) which is flexibly connected to the tire building drum with a coupling (560, 660) which can be uncoupled. Then the tire building drum is moved longitudinally rearward by: coupling the work station to the tire building drum; uncoupling the tire building drum from the vehicle; and longitudinally moving the tire building drum relative to the vehicle. The flexible connecting means allows controlled lateral and vertical movement of the tire building drum relative to the vehicle while the vehicle is moving the tire building drum forward.

摘要翻译： 将活动轮胎成型鼓（120,620）精确纵向配准到自动轮胎成型系统（100）工作站（110,610）的方法和装置，其中所述自动轮胎建造系统包括具有应用鼓的一个或多个工作站 （112），并且轮胎成型鼓被纵向前进（105）移入和移出每个工作站，包括：在工作站纵向参考点（115,615）的前向表面（115,615）上提供工作站纵向参考点 工作站的横向可延伸部分（114,614）; 在所述轮胎成型鼓的后向表面（125,625）上提供滚筒参考点（125,625）; 并且在轮胎成型鼓已经移动到工作站之后，停止轮胎成型鼓运动，将工作站纵向参考点横向延伸到轮胎成型鼓的后方，然后纵向向后移动轮胎成型鼓以抵靠鼓参考 指向工作站纵向参考点。 轮胎成型鼓可以通过可自动推进的车辆（102,602）移动，该自行车辆（102,602）可以用联轴器（560,660）柔性地连接到轮胎成型鼓上。 然后，轮胎成型鼓的纵向向后移动：将工作站联接到轮胎成型鼓; 将轮胎成型鼓从车辆解开; 并且相对于车辆纵向移动轮胎成型鼓。 柔性连接装置允许轮胎成型鼓相对于车辆的受控横向和垂直移动，同时车辆正在向前移动轮胎成型鼓。

公开(公告)号：US06702912B1

公开(公告)日：2004-03-09

申请号：US09207411

申请日：1998-12-08

申请人： Masaharu Oku ,  Keishi Mineo ,  Shigeru Kaneko ,  Sigeru Miyazaki ,  Taizo Ito ,  Akio Obayashi

发明人： Masaharu Oku ,  Keishi Mineo ,  Shigeru Kaneko ,  Sigeru Miyazaki ,  Taizo Ito ,  Akio Obayashi

IPC分类号： B29D3000

CPC分类号： B29D30/00 ,  B29D30/0016 ,  B29D30/005 ,  B29D2030/0055

摘要： A pneumatic tire production system comprises production lines each including a green tire building station for assembling unvulcanized members of pneumatic tires into green tires. The green tires are vulcanized at a vulcanizing station which includes at least one vulcanizing unit equipped with a plurality of vulcanizing molds. The number of the vulcanizing mold is determined so as to satisfy the vulcanizing capacity which is substantially equivalent to the number of green tires formed at the building station within a predetermined unit time. The system serves to minimize the intermediate stock amount of green tires due to minimized changeover between different types of tires to be alternately produced.

摘要翻译： 一种充气轮胎生产系统包括生产线，每个生产线包括用于将充气轮胎的未硫化部件组装成绿色轮胎的生轮胎建造工位。 生轮胎在硫化站硫化，该硫化站包括至少一个配备有多个硫化模具的硫化单元。 硫化模具的数量被确定为满足在预定单位时间内与在建筑工地形成的生轮胎数量基本上相等的硫化能力。 该系统用于使交替生产的不同类型的轮胎之间的最小化的转换最小化绿色轮胎的中间坯料量。

公开(公告)号：US06531012B2

公开(公告)日：2003-03-11

申请号：US09125884

申请日：1998-08-27

申请人： Makoto Ishiyama

发明人： Makoto Ishiyama

IPC分类号： B29D3000

CPC分类号： B60C11/11 ,  B60C11/00 ,  B60C99/006 ,  Y10S152/902 ,  Y10T152/10495

摘要： When a single performance or a plurality of antinomical performances are to be achieved, the best mode of a tire is designed under a given constraint condition. Each of blocks included in two pitch groups designated in a pitch array is modeled (100), an objective function representing a tire performance evaluation physical amount, a constraint condition for restricting a tire shape, and a design variable which is an angle of a wall surface determining each of block shapes are determined (102). Next, the design variable is varied continuously by &Dgr;ri to determine a modified model (104 to 108). A value of the objective function of the modified model and a value of the constraint condition are calculated, and a sensitivity of the objective function and a sensitivity of the constraint condition are determined (110, 112). A variation amount of the design variable which minimizes a difference between block rigidities is estimated, a modified shape model is determined, the objective function is calculated, and by using a value of the design variable, a block shape of each of the pitch groups in the pitch array forming the tire is determined (114 to 120).

摘要翻译： 当要实现单一性能或多种抗衡性能时，在给定的约束条件下设计轮胎的最佳模式。 包括在间距阵列中指定的两个音调组中的每个音程块被建模（100），表示轮胎性能评估物理量的目标函数，用于限制轮胎形状的约束条件以及作为壁的角度的设计变量 确定每个块形状的表面确定（102）。 接下来，设计变量由DELTAri连续变化以确定修改的模型（104至108）。 计算修正模型的目标函数的值和约束条件的值，确定目标函数的灵敏度和约束条件的灵敏度（110,112）。 估计最小化块刚度之间的差异的设计变量的变化量，确定修改后的形状模型，计算目标函数，并且通过使用设计变量的值，每个音调组的块形状在 确定形成轮胎的俯仰阵列（114〜120）。

公开(公告)号：US06800161B2

公开(公告)日：2004-10-05

申请号：US10107362

申请日：2002-03-28

申请人： Shigeaki Takigawa ,  Hitoshi Yoshimi ,  Hiroki Yokota

发明人： Shigeaki Takigawa ,  Hitoshi Yoshimi ,  Hiroki Yokota

IPC分类号： B29D3000

CPC分类号： B60C11/0318

摘要： A method of arranging cyclic patterns in a tire tread is disclosed, wherein design cycles in each cyclic pattern are repeated in a pitch sequence; with respect to each of the design cycles, an averaged pitch of the pitch lengths of a predetermined number of subsequent design cycles is obtained; combinations of the sequences of the averaged pitches are defined by changing phase between the sequences; with respect to the averaged pitches of the combined sequences, crossover averages are obtained; from the crossover averages in each combination, a difference between a maximum and a minimum is obtained; from the differences of the combinations, a combination having a smaller difference is found; the cyclic patterns are arranged in accordance with the phase shift of the combination having the smaller difference.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种在轮胎胎面上布置循环图案的方法，其中每个循环图案中的设计循环以间距顺序重复; 对于每个设计周期，获得预定数量的后续设计周期的间距长度的平均间距; 通过改变序列之间的相位来定义平均间距的序列的组合; 对于组合序列的平均间距，获得交叉平均值; 从每个组合的交叉平均值获得最大值与最小值之差; 根据组合的差异，发现具有较小差异的组合; 根据具有较小差异的组合的相移来排列循环图案。

公开(公告)号：US06776937B2

公开(公告)日：2004-08-17

申请号：US09918449

申请日：2001-08-01

申请人： Yuichiro Ogawa

发明人： Yuichiro Ogawa

IPC分类号： B29D3000

CPC分类号： G01M17/02 ,  B29C71/00 ,  B29D30/0633 ,  B29D2030/0635 ,  B29D2030/0642 ,  B29L2030/00 ,  G01M1/045 ,  G01M1/326 ,  G01M1/36 ,  G01M17/021

摘要： A radial force variation of a tire is corrected irrespectively of the kind of the organic fiber cord used, wherein a radial force variation (RFV) is measured at room temperature to specify a tire position indicating a minimum value of RFV, and an inner face of a tread portion is pushed and enlarged outward in a radial direction of the tire by a pushing means at a RFV bottom region sandwiching the position of the minimum RFV value from both sides thereof in a circumferential direction of the tread portion, and such a push enlarged state is kept for a given time.

摘要翻译： 校正轮胎的径向力变化，而不管使用的有机纤维帘线的种类如何，其中在室温下测量径向力变化（RFV）以指定表示RFV的最小值的轮胎位置，并且内表面 胎面部通过在RFV底部区域的推动装置沿轮胎的径向从外侧沿着胎面部的圆周方向从两侧夹着最小RFV值的位置而向外侧向外侧推压， 状态保持给定的时间。

公开(公告)号：US06482282B1

公开(公告)日：2002-11-19

申请号：US09787584

申请日：2001-03-19

申请人： Albert James Yovichin ,  Thomas Reed Oare ,  Shawn Derrick Knox

发明人： Albert James Yovichin ,  Thomas Reed Oare ,  Shawn Derrick Knox

IPC分类号： B29D3000

CPC分类号： B29D30/0681 ,  B29C53/32 ,  B29D30/0016 ,  B29D2030/0682

摘要： A method of preparing a cylindrical-shaped innerliner (10) for storage. The method involves converting the innerliner (10) from a cylinder into a solid torodially-shaped donut (10A).

摘要翻译： 一种制备用于储存的圆柱形内衬（10）的方法。 该方法包括将内衬层（10）从圆筒转换成固体环形形状的环形圈（10A）。

公开(公告)号：US06758928B2

公开(公告)日：2004-07-06

申请号：US10044404

申请日：2002-01-11

申请人： David Ray Hubbell, Jr. ,  Christopher Michael Smith ,  Michael David Kachner

发明人： David Ray Hubbell, Jr. ,  Christopher Michael Smith ,  Michael David Kachner

IPC分类号： B29D3000

CPC分类号： B60C3/06

摘要： By shifting the peak height of the tread on one side of the tire from the centerline (CL), for a tire intended for cambered use on a vehicle and/or exposure to lateral loading, improvements in the footprint shape, pressure distribution, area and footprint shape factor (FSF) are obtained. In an illustrated embodiment, 0.127 cm to 5 cm (deep) of mold material are removed from one side of the centerline (CL) of the crown in a conventional mold, at 15% to 85% of the distance from the centerline to the shoulder area of the mold (one-half inch to five and one-half inches in the illustrated tires), to obtain a mold shape having the designated change in tread peak height.

摘要翻译： 通过将轮胎一侧的胎面的高度从中心线（CL）移动，对于用于在车辆上进行弧形使用的轮胎和/或暴露于横向负载，轮胎的足迹形状，压力分布，面积和 获得足迹形状因子（FSF）。 在图示的实施例中，在常规模具中，从顶部的中心线（CL）的一侧除去0.127cm至5cm（深）的模具材料，距离中心线至肩部的距离的15％至85％ 模具的面积（所示轮胎中的半英寸至五英寸半英寸），以获得具有指定的胎面峰高度变化的模具形状。

公开(公告)号：US06689304B1

公开(公告)日：2004-02-10

申请号：US09744990

申请日：2001-02-16

申请人： Günter Homt ,  Michael Glinz ,  Horst Sergel

发明人： Günter Homt ,  Michael Glinz ,  Horst Sergel

IPC分类号： B29D3000

CPC分类号： B29D30/0633 ,  B29D2030/0635 ,  B29D2030/0642

摘要： Process and apparatus for improving a concentricity of a pneumatic vehicle tire having a bead. The process includes subjecting at least a portion of the bead, after vulcanization, to a plastic deformation post-treatment. The post-treatment improves the concentricity of the tire. The apparatus includes a drum having a surface which engages a radially inner bead seat surface of the tire. The drum includes at least one of an internal heating mechanism and an internal cooling mechanism. The drum is adapted to plastically deform at least a portion of the bead of the tire so as to affect at least one of a first, a second, and a third harmonic. The plastic deformation improves the concentricity of the tire.

摘要翻译： 具有珠的气动车辆用轮胎的同心度的改善方法和装置。 该方法包括使硫化后的珠粒的至少一部分经受塑性变形后处理。 后处理改善了轮胎的同心度。 该设备包括具有接合轮胎的径向内侧胎圈座表面的表面的滚筒。 滚筒包括内部加热机构和内部冷却机构中的至少一个。 滚筒适于使轮胎的胎圈的至少一部分塑性变形，从而影响第一，第二和第三谐波中的至少一个。 塑性变形提高了轮胎的同心度。

公开(公告)号：US06591885B2

公开(公告)日：2003-07-15

申请号：US09808628

申请日：2001-03-14

申请人： Jean-Pierre Guide

发明人： Jean-Pierre Guide

IPC分类号： B29D3000

CPC分类号： B29D30/0016

摘要： A device for the substantially vertical suspension of tire carcasses, which includes a plurality of articulated supports, the latter being able to bear on the inside of a tire carcass, each of said supports having a convex bearing surface capable of adopting a plurality of angular positions.

摘要翻译： 一种用于轮胎胎体基本上垂直悬挂的装置，其包括多个铰接支撑件，所述多个铰接支撑件能够承载在轮胎胎体的内侧，每个所述支撑件具有能够采用多个角位置的凸形支承表面 。