Regulating temperature during tire vulcanization
AssigneeCompagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
InventorsTHIBAULT BONCOMPAGNE, THOMAS SIMONELLI, FRANCK GUERIN
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Abstract
In an electric vulcanization system, a temperature of a heating medium in a fluid-tight enclosure is detected and adjusted during a current curing cycle.
Claims17
A tire vulcanizing system for regulating a temperature of a heating medium, comprising a bladder disposed inside a tire to be vulcanized and at least partially delineating a cavity in which a heating medium circulates, with a fan and a heater being immersed in the heating medium and the heater having one or more heating elements that provide energy to the heating medium traversing thereover before egress along an exit,
- wherein at least one temperature sensor is disposed along the exit path and configured to detect a temperature of the heating medium in the cavity and to generate one or more temperature signals indicative of detected heating medium temperature in the cavity;
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- wherein a monitoring system is provided that receives the one or more temperature signals and sends one or more commensurate commands to adjust the heating medium temperature in the cavity during a curing cycle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.