Tire vulcanization system, and vulcanized tire manufacturing method
AssigneesMitsubishi Heavy Industries Machinery Systems, Ltd., Bridgestone Corporation
InventorsTomoyuki Iwamoto, Hideki Fukuda, Yoshikatsu Hineno, Naoto Okudomi, Takeshi Fukui, Satoshi Ochiai, Akihiko Hajikano
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Abstract
A tire vulcanization system is configured to deliver a vulcanized tire carried out from a vulcanizer by a tire conveyance device to a PCI device at a first position, and attaches an upper lid. The PCI device mounted with the upper lid is moved from the first position to a second position by a PCI moving portion. The tire conveyance device is configured to receive the raw tire disposed above the PCI device moved to the second position and carry the raw tire into the vulcanizer.
Claims8
A vulcanized tire manufacturing method for vulcanizing a raw tire and manufacturing a vulcanized tire, the method comprising:
- a vulcanization step of performing a vulcanization process for the raw tire;
- a tire conveyance mounting step of conveying the vulcanized tire subjected to the vulcanization process to a PCI device disposed at a first position and mounting an upper lid;
- a first PCI device moving step of moving the PCI device on which the vulcanized tire is mounted from the first position to a second position;
- a PCI step of performing post-cure inflation of the vulcanized tire at the second position by the PCI device;
- a second PCI device moving step of moving the PCI device on which the post-cure inflation is completed from the second position to the first position;
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- a tire carrying-out step of removing the upper lid from the PCI device at the first position and carrying out the vulcanized tire.
A tire vulcanization system that is configured to vulcanize a raw tire and manufactures a vulcanized tire, the system comprising:
- a vulcanizer configured to perform a vulcanization process for the raw tire;
- a PCI device configured to perform post-cure inflation of the vulcanized tire;
- an attachment or detachment portion configured to attach or detach an upper lid of the PCI device;
- a tire conveyance device configured to carry the raw tire into the vulcanizer and carry out the vulcanized tire subjected to the vulcanization process by the vulcanizer;
- a PCI moving portion configured to move the PCI device between a first position where the upper lid is attached by the attachment or detachment portion and a second position where the post-cure inflation is performed;
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- a raw tire placing stand portion disposed above the PCI device moved to the second position and on which the raw tire immediately before the vulcanization process is placed, wherein
- the tire conveyance device is configured to deliver the vulcanized tire to the PCI device at the first position, receive the raw tire placed on the raw tire placing stand portion at the second position, and carry the raw tire into the vulcanizer,
- the attachment or detachment portion is configured to attach or detach the upper lid to or from the PCI device at the first position, and
- the PCI moving portion is configured to receive the vulcanized tire from the tire conveyance device and move the PCI device mounted with the upper lid from the first position to the second position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.