Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho

Yoshiaki Matsubara

Yoshiharu Nishida

Masao Murakami

Yasuhiro Matsushita

Toru Eguchi

Maiko Mori

Toru Okada

Takehiko Wakazono

Kazuhisa Fukutani

Naoyuki Tashiro

Katsumi Ogawa

Yu Sumimoto

Takashi Sumitani

Atsushi Yamamoto

Maiko Nakayama

Jumpei Fukuda

Hajime Takeda

Hidefumi Sato

Shinichirou Ikai

A tire testing machine is for testing a tire, comprising a free roller section configured to include a plurality of rollers having an endmost roller disposed downstream of a lubricator in a conveying direction and farthest from a predetermined reference position, the endmost roller being disposed such that a horizontal distance from the reference position is equal to or greater than a radius of a largest of a plurality of tires set in advance as objects of application of a lubricant.

Tire tester machine having a lubricator in a conveying direction

A tire uniformity testing apparatus () measures uniformity of a tire (T) by measuring a load generated on the tire (T) pressed against a rotating rotary drum (). A load model used to control a pressing position of the rotary drum () and express a relation between the pressing position of the tire (T) against the rotary drum () and a tire load generated in the tire (T) is configured to successively measure the tire load, while changing the pressing position of the tire (T) against the rotary drum (), and to estimate the tire load using the measured value of the measured tire load.

Method for estimating load model in tire uniformity tester

In a tire uniformity testing apparatus which measures uniformity of a tire by measuring a load applied to the tire pressed against a rotary drum, a load estimation model is generated which is used to control a pressing position of the rotary drum, and generates a load estimation model indicating a relation between the pressing position of the tire with respect to the rotary drum and the load applied to the tire. The load estimation model is generated by: holding the tire in which uniformity has already been measured for each characteristic value; acquiring a nominal model depending on the characteristic value of the tire; and generating based on the acquired nominal model.

Method for generating load estimation model in tire uniformity tester

In a rim replacing method for a tire testing machine of the present invention, one pair of the rims satisfying predetermined conditions relative to a test tire are selected, from among a pair of rims attached to the upper and lower spindles and plural pairs of rims loaded in a rim replacing device, as object rims, and rim replacement is performed if the rims loaded in the rim replacing device are selected as the object rims, so that the nonuniformity of rim can be suitably measured. The predetermined conditions include a condition in which a diameter of bead portions of the tire conveyed into the tire testing machine corresponds to a diameter of the object rims, and a condition in which a width of the bead portions of the tire conveyed into the tire testing machine falls within a range in which a space between the object rims is adjustable.

Rim replacing method for tire testing machine

A tire testing machine includes a test station in which spindles to attach a tire on which a barcode is installed are provided, and first and second belt conveyors that feed the tire into a center position of the spindles. In order to stably grasp a position of identifying information of the tire and stop rotation of the tire at an arbitrary desired angle, before applying a lubricant to a bead portion on an inner periphery of the tire conveyed to the first belt conveyors by means of the lubricator and feeding the tire into the test station, a controller grasps a position of the barcode on the tire based on a rotation angle relative to the direction connecting a position where the barcode is detected by a barcode scanner and the center of the tire.

Tire testing machine

In a tire uniformity measurement, accurate tire uniformity is obtained from a measurement waveform immediately after a rotation of a tire is switched from a normal rotation direction to a reverse rotation direction. A tire uniformity testing device of the present invention includes a measurement unitthat obtains a force variation from a uniformity waveform corrected by a correction unitthat corrects the uniformity waveform so as to eliminate a shift gradient &#x3b1; existing in the uniformity waveform measured after a rotation of a tire Tis reversed, and further includes an air-outflow regulation memberthat regulates an from flowing into a tire Twhen a drumretreats or advances.

Tire uniformity testing device and tire uniformity testing method

A pneumatic circuit whereby small amounts of variations in pneumatic pressure in a tire occurring during tire testing can be adjusted in a short time. The pneumatic circuit includes an air supply source which generates compressed air to be supplied to a tire retained in a tire testing device; a pressure regulating valve which regulates the pressure of the compressed air generated; a discharge/supply valve provided downstream of the pressure regulating valve and by which compressed air is supplied to, or discharged from, the tire; a pressure detection unit provided downstream of the discharge/supply valve and which detects the tire pressure inside the tire; and a volume adjustment mechanism provided between the pressure regulating valve and the tire and which increases or decreases the volume of compressed air in an airflow path between the tire and the pressure regulating valve, as well as in the tire.

Pneumatic circuit for tire testing device, tire testing device, and tire testing method

A manufacturing apparatus of a fiber-reinforced resin strand including spreaders that spread a reinforcing fiber bundle and are provided inside a crosshead to which a molten resin material is supplied continuously from an extruding machine, twisting rollers provided at a downstream position from an exit nozzle of the crosshead and that pultrude a fiber-reinforced resin strand formed of a resin-impregnated fiber bundle from the exit nozzle while imparting twists thereto, and twist retaining rollers provided at a downstream position from the twisting rollers and that retain twists of the fiber-reinforced resin strand. The twisting rollers and the twist retaining rollers are made of metal with asperities being formed on the surface thereof. The manufacturing apparatus can achieve excellent durability and is capable of manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin strand at a high production rate without causing slipping.

Manufacturing apparatus of fiber-reinforced resin strand

An insulator composition of foamed synthetic resin is supplied to an extruder 3, and the synthetic resin is extruded onto a wire 4a continuously supplied to the extruder 3 at a temperature higher than or equal to a foaming temperature, to cover the wire 4a with the insulator composition. Then, the wire 4a covered with the insulator composition is solidified by cooling in a water-cooling trough 6 movable towards and away from the extruder 3 in a direction of supply of the wire 4a. In this operation, an outer diameter D and a capacitance C of the insulator composition are controlled such that when the water-cooling trough 6 reaches its movable limit, either a deviation .DELTA.D of a detection value of the outer diameter D from its target preset value or a deviation .DELTA.C of a detection value of the capacitance C from its target preset value is selected as a deviation (.DELTA.D or .DELTA.C) that may first exceed a tolerance range upon changing an amount of supply of the insulator composition to the extruder 3, and then the amount of supply is controlled so that the other deviation (.DELTA.C or .DELTA.D) is decreased under the condition where the selected deviation (.DELTA.D or .DELTA.C) falls within the tolerance.

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Takasago, Japan

Yoshiaki Matsubara