Auto skive filling system
AssigneeBridgestone Bandag, LLC
InventorRobert G. Otting
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Abstract
A method for automatically filling skived areas on a tire carcass is provided. The method including analyzing, by a computer system, a surface of a tire carcass with a sensor, identifying, by the computer system, a first skived area of the tire carcass, determining, by the computer system, whether to perform a filling operation to fill the first skived area, communicating, by the computer system, the location of the first skived area to a filling device responsive to a determination to perform the filling operation, and filling, by the filling device, the first skived area.
Claims15
A method for automatically filling skived areas on a tire carcass, the method comprising:
- analyzing, by a computer system, a surface of the tire carcass with a sensor;
- identifying, by the computer system, a first skived area of the tire carcass;
- determining, by the computer system, whether to perform a filling operation to fill the first skived area;
- communicating, by the computer system, a location of the first skived area to a filling device responsive to a determination to perform the filling operation;
- translating the filling device to a position proximate the location of the first skived area, the filling device coupled with a circumferential rail extending circumferentially around the tire carcass such that the filling device circumferentially translates along the surface of the tire carcass;
- and
- filling, by the filling device, the first skived area.
A system for automatically filling skived areas on a tire carcass, the system comprising:
- a scanner;
- a filling device;
- a circumferential rail that extends circumferentially around the tire carcass, the filling device configured to couple with and translate along the circumferential rail such that the filling device circumferentially translates along a surface of the tire carcass;
- and
- a controller communicatively coupled to the scanner and the filling device, the controller comprising a processor and a memory configured to store instructions to cause the controller to perform operations comprising:
- analyze, using the scanner, the surface of the tire carcass;
- identify a first skived area of the tire carcass;
- determine whether to perform filling of the first skived area;
- and
- provide an instruction to the filling device to fill the first skived area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.