Optimization and automatisation model for automotive tire storing
OwnerUgur Bozkurt, Mehmet Altu{hacek over (g)}inventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to automotive tire storing system (100) providing storage of the tires (200) used in automotive sector and building a storage-controlling automatization. The invention particularly relates to automotive tire storing system (100) providing automatically detecting diameter of the tires (200), placing the tire at an appropriate position according to the detected diameter, firstly taking the tire stored in the first place thereout.
Claims3
A tire stocking system (100) for storing tires (200) used in automotive sector, comprising:
- one or more tire racks (110) having a sloped structure for enabling movement of the tires (200) through gravity force, wherein the tires (200) stocked within the tire stocking system (100) can be taken out of the tire stocking system (100),
- a tire camera (133) for detecting dimension and diameter of the tires (200) loaded into the tire stocking system (100), and transmits to a host computer the dimension and diameter information of the loaded tires (200),
- a rack sensor (135) for detecting the number of tires (200) that are loaded into and out of the tire stocking system (100), and for transmitting an entry date and time of the loaded tires (200) and for further transmitting the capacity of the one or more tire racks (110) to the host computer,
- a tire lift (130) for placing the tires (200) at an appropriate tire rack (110) based on the detected dimension and diameter information for each tire (200), wherein the host computer determines the appropriate tire rack (110) based on the detected dimension and diameter information.
A method for stocking tires in automotive sector tire storing system, the method comprising the following steps:
- loading at least one tire (200) to a tire lift (130) comprising tire holders (132);
- detecting a dimension and diameter of each of the at least one tire with a tire camera (133) that is on the tire lift (130);
- placing each tire (200) of the at least one tire into an appropriate tire rack (110), of one or more tire racks, by the tire lift (130);
- transmitting by at least one rack sensor (135) at an entry of the one or more tire racks (110), information on a number of the tires (200) being placed into the at least one tire rack (110);
- moving the one or more tires (200) towards an end of the one or more tire racks (110) by a sloped structure of the tire rack (110);
- taking one or more tires (200) reaching the end of the one or more tire racks (110) out of tire stocking system (100);
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- transmitting by at least one rack sensor (135) at an exit of the one or more tire racks (110), output information of each of the one or more tires (200) taken out of tire stocking system (100) to host computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.