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US 2023/0391031 A1Published application
Systems and methods for maintaining automated quality control during tire manufacture using specialized rfid tags
AssigneeFineline Technologies
InventorsJOS UIJLENBROEK, Jan Svoboda
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are automated systems and methods utilizing a plurality of specialized RFID tags incorporated within various tire manufacturing components (e.g., mold segments, mold container, bladder plates, tire presses, and extrusion dies) that are able to readily track tire manufacture and identify defect source(s) while concurrently being configured to the harsh processes and temperatures of tire manufacture.
Claims7
A method for tracking tire manufacture and quality control with an RFID equipped tire mold system comprising:
- (a) providing an RFID equipped tire mold having a plurality of mold segments and/or
- mold shoes and mold bladder components;
- (b) placing the green unvulcanized tire into the RFID equipped tire mold;
- (c) forming a vulcanized tire;
- (d) removing the vulcanized tire from the tire mold
- and determining whether any defects are present in the vulcanized tire, wherein:
- if no defects are present in the vulcanized tire, the vulcanized tire enters a supply chain and all data related to manufacture of the vulcanized tire with no defects is electronically stored within a database for review at a later date if necessary, but
- if defects are present in the vulcanized tire after step (c), further correlating a defect position on the vulcanized tire with the corresponding position in the RFID equipped tire mold based on unique RFID identifiers provided by the RFID equipped tire mold and further determining whether repair is necessary to portions of the RFID equipped tire mold and/or whether vulcanization parameters should be modified to prevent and/or reduce occurrence of defects in the vulcanized tire(s).
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