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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2013
Applicant:
Kobe Steel, Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kobe Steel, Ltd., Hyogo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/24 (2006.01); G01M 17/02 (2006.01); G01B 11/06 (2006.01); G01B 11/22 (2006.01); G01B 11/25 (2006.01); G01B 21/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01M 17/027 (2013.01); G01B 11/0608 (2013.01); G01B 11/22 (2013.01); G01B 11/24 (2013.01); G01B 11/2408 (2013.01); G01B 11/25 (2013.01); G01B 21/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tire shape inspection method comprises a contact face acquisition step of acquiring contact face height changes by removing data outside of a prescribed range from detected tread face height data, a height change interpolation step of interpolating the section removed in the previous step using heights in the prescribed height range and acquiring height changes in the interpolated contact faces, and a runout value acquisition step of acquiring, as a runout value indicating the shape of the tread face, the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value in the height changes of the interpolated contact faces.