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US 12,103,258 B2Granted
Tire building method and tire building system, in particular for strip-winding
AssigneeVmi Holland B.V.
InventorsMaarten Reinoud Van Der Made, Cees Johan Van Voskuilen, Gerrit Mulder
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Abstract
A tire building method, in particular for strip-winding, includes the step of: providing a choice between a production mode for building a tire component and a test mode for obtaining test measurements, wherein the choice is provided prior to executing the test mode; wherein at least one or more building parameters is set prior to the building of the tire component based on test measurements performed on a test strip during the test mode. Also disclosed is a tyre building system and a measurement tool.
Claims21
A tire building method comprising the step of:
- providing a choice to an operator via a user interface between a production mode for building a tire component and a test mode for obtaining test measurements, wherein the choice is provided prior to executing either the test mode or the production mode;
- wherein the test mode is not intended to obtain a finished tire component and comprises the steps of:
- providing a cylindrical measurement surface extending concentrically about a central axis;
- helically winding a continuous test strip in a plurality of windings about said central axis onto the cylindrical measurement surface, wherein one or more windings of the plurality of windings of the test strip has a pitch in an axial direction parallel to the central axis that is greater than a width of the test strip in the same axial direction in said one or more windings;
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- obtaining test measurements from at least one of the windings of the one or more windings of the test strip;
- wherein the production mode comprises the step of:
- building a tire component from a production strip, that is continuous from the test strip, on a production surface using one or more building parameters, wherein the production strip is wound using a first building parameter with a value that is set during the winding of the production strip according to a sequence of instructions for executing the production mode;
- wherein, when the choice is made to execute the test mode prior to executing the production mode, the method further comprises the steps of first executing the test mode and then executing the production mode, wherein the test strip is wound using the first building parameter with a value that is set during the winding of the test strip according to a sequence of instructions for executing the test mode, wherein the sequence of instructions for executing the test mode is unrelated to and unrestricted by the production mode.
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A tire building method comprising the step of:
- providing a choice to an operator via a user interface between a production mode for building a tire component and a test mode for obtaining test measurements, wherein the choice is provided prior to executing either the test mode or the production mode;
- wherein the test mode is not intended to approximate a target contour of a tire component and comprises the steps of:
- providing a cylindrical measurement surface extending concentrically about a central axis;
- helically winding a continuous test strip in a plurality of windings about said central axis onto the cylindrical measurement surface, wherein one or more windings of the plurality of windings of the test strip has a pitch in an axial direction parallel to the central axis that is greater than a width of the test strip in the same axial direction in said one or more windings;
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- obtaining test measurements from at least one of the windings of the one or more windings of the test strip;
- wherein the production mode comprises the step of:
- building a tire component from a production strip, that is discontinuous from the test strip, on a production surface using one or more building parameters, wherein the production strip is wound using a first building parameter with a value that is set during the winding of the production strip according to a sequence of instructions for executing the production mode;
- wherein, when the choice is made to execute the test mode prior to executing the production mode, the method further comprises the steps of first executing the test mode and then executing the production mode, wherein the test strip is wound using the first building parameter with a value that is set during the winding of the test strip according to a sequence of instructions for executing the test mode, wherein the sequence of instructions for executing the test mode is unrelated to and unrestricted by the production mode.
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