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US 2013/0199704 A1Published application
System and Method for Customizing Vehicle Tires on Demand at Point-of-Sale
OwnerScott Damoninventor
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Abstract
Methods and systems for on demand, customized manufacture of vehicle tires at a point-of-sale are disclosed. At a point-of-sale, tire casings and tire treads that have been manufactured separately to enhance certain performance characteristics are assembled to provide a final customized tire.
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A system for manufacturing tires at a point-of-sale facility, said system comprising:
- a tire casing inventory of a plurality of different types of tire casings, the tire casing inventory stored at the point-of-sale facility;
- a tire tread inventory of a plurality of different types of tire treads, the tire tread inventory stored at the point-of-sale facility;
- tire building equipment disposed at the point-of-sale facility and adapted to combine a selected type of the tire casings with a selected type of the tire treads to produce a new finished tire having at least one predetermined tire characteristic.
A method for manufacturing tires upon demand at a point-of-sale location, said method comprising:
- maintaining at the point-of-sale location a tire casing inventory of a plurality of different types of tire casings;
- maintaining at the point-of-sale location a tire tread inventory of a plurality of different types of tire treads;
- receiving customer tire selection information at the point-of-sale location, said customer tire selection information including a tire characteristic;
- in response to receiving the customer information, operating tire building equipment at the point-of-sale location to produce from a tread-casing combination of a selected type of the tire treads and a selected type of the tire casing a new tire having the tire characteristic.
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A method for manufacturing customized tires upon demand at a point-of-sale location, said method comprising:
- maintaining at the point-of-sale location a plurality of types of tire casings;
- maintaining at the point-of-sale location a plurality of types of tire treads;
- receiving at the point-of-sale customer tire selection information including at least one selected rating corresponding to a performance characteristic of a tire;
- based on the at least one selected rating, selecting a particular type of tire casing from the types of tire casings and selecting a particular type of tire tread from the types of tire treads;
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- building a tire at the point-of-sale location using a tread-casing combination including a tread of the selected type and a casing of the selected type.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.