Tire manufacturing method and manufacturing system
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorYuta Takanashi
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Abstract
Provided is a method of manufacturing a tire and a system for manufacturing a tire. A forming drum body to which a tire component is bonded after completion of a forming operation in an operation station is temporarily placed in a placement apparatus. While the forming drum body is temporarily placed in the placement apparatus, the mass of the green tire is inspected by a mass meter as a predetermined quality of a green tire formed by the tire component bonded to the forming drum body during forming or after completion of the forming, and the profile shape of the green tire is inspected by a profile sensor.
Claims13
A method of manufacturing a tire, the method comprising:
- forming a green tire by sequentially moving a forming drum body to a plurality of operation stations and bonding a tire component to the forming drum body in each of the operation stations;
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- vulcanizing the green tire;
- the method further comprising:
- temporarily placing, at a placement apparatus, the forming drum body to which the tire component is bonded after completion of a forming operation at any one of the operation stations;
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- inspecting a predetermined quality for a green tire during forming or after completion of the forming while the forming drum body is temporarily placed in the placement apparatus.
A system for manufacturing a tire, the system comprising:
- a forming drum configured to sequentially move to a plurality of operation stations;
- a member supplier disposed in each of the operation stations and configured to supply a tire component to the forming drum body;
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- a vulcanizing apparatus in which a green tire formed through a forming operation in each of the operation stations is vulcanized;
- the system further comprising an inspection apparatus and a placement apparatus in which the forming drum body to which the tire component is bonded after completion of a forming operation in any one of the operation stations is temporarily placed, and
- the inspection apparatus being configured to inspect a predetermined quality of a green tire during forming or after completion of the forming, the green tire being formed by the tire component bonded to the forming drum body temporarily placed in the placement apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.