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AssigneeToyo Tire Corporation
InventorsHiroki Inoue, Kazuhiro Kobayashi
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A first forming apparatus includes a forming drum, a forming unit, a conveyance path, and a conveyance unit that conveys the forming drum along the conveyance path. A tire member is formed with tire components wound on the forming drum by the forming unit. The first forming apparatus also includes a measurement unit that performs, on a downstream side of the forming unit in the conveyance path, measurement on the tire components wound on the forming drum while the forming drum is moving through the measurement unit, in a tire radial direction over a width direction of the forming drum, and an inspection unit that performs inspection on winding states of the tire components based on a measurement result due to the measurement unit.
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An inspection method for a tire member formed by winding tire components on a forming drum by each of a plurality of forming units, while the forming drum is being conveyed to the plurality of forming units along a conveyance path sequentially connecting the plurality of forming units, the method comprising:
An inspection method for a tire member comprising measuring a shape of the tire member formed on a forming drum while the forming drum is being conveyed along a conveyance path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.