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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2000
Norimichi Uchida, Kodaira, JP;
Takao Kokubu, Kodaira, JP;
Bridgestone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A tire interior inspecting method irradiates a tire being continuously conveyed by a conveyor with x-rays emitted from a predetermined position, receives the x-rays penetrated through the tire by a high resolution linear x-ray sensor to obtain x-ray information about the tire, compares the x-ray information with normal tire image information about the metallic components of a normal tire, removes parts of the x-ray image information coinciding with the normal tire image information, and decides the quality of interior of the tire on the basis of image information obtained by removing parts of the x-ray image information coinciding with the normal timer image information.