US 10,703,148 B2Granted

Tire management method

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorKenichiro Kurai

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Abstract

A tire management method with which specific information of a tire can be acquired at arbitrary timing in a manufacturing process of a vehicle is provided. The tire management method is a method of managing a tire group including a plurality of tires 1 on each of which a first mark M1 and a second mark M2 are provided on specific positions of a side surface, the method including: a step of associating, with respect to each of the tires included in the tire group, specific information of the tire and mark positional information (θ12, r1, and r2) related to positions of the marks M1 and M2, and recording these into a computer 2; a step of acquiring mark positional information of a tire selected from the tire group; and a step of acquiring, by using the computer 2, specific information associated with the previously-acquired mark positional information.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A tire management method of managing a tire group including a plurality of tires on each of which a first mark and a second mark are provided on specific positions of a side surface, the method comprising:

a recording step of associating, with respect to each of the tires included in the tire group, specific information of the tire and mark positional information related to positions of the first and second marks provided on the tire, and recording these into a recording medium;
a mark positional information acquiring step of acquiring mark positional information of a tire selected from the tire group;
and
an individual identifying step of acquiring, by using the recording medium, specific information associated with the acquired mark positional information,
wherein the first and second marks are provided at different positions for each of the tires, and
in the recording step, with respect to each of the tires included in the tire group, a database that associates the mark positional information with the specific information is created on the recording medium.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/901,258Filed 21 Feb 2018
Priority: JP 2017-03106822 Feb 2017
Published: US 2018/0236829 A123 Aug 2018
Granted: 7 Jul 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

B60C 25/0554
Equipped with sensing means, e.g. for positioning, measuring or controlling: optical, e.g. cameras
B29D 30/0016
Producing pneumatic or solid tyres or parts thereof: handling tyres or parts thereof, e.g. supplying, storing, conveying
B29D 30/005
Producing pneumatic or solid tyres or parts thereof: general arrangement or lay-out of plants for the processing of tyres or parts thereof
B60C 13/001
Tyre sidewalls; Protecting, decorating, marking, or the like, thereof: decorating, marking or the like