Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
156131000 | Bead-applying | 11 |
20100089520 | BLADDER, AN APPARATUS AND A METHOD FOR SHAPING AND CURING A TIRE - A method, a bladder and an apparatus for shaping and curing a tire, wherein the bladder has two weakened regions corresponding to the shoulder regions of the tire when the bladder is expanded in the cavity of the tire. Upon inflation of the bladder and its expansion in the tire, the bladder contacts first the inner surface of the cavity at the bead regions and progressively the sidewalls, the shoulders and then the center of the tire. The weakened regions are designed to stretch more under a given tension than the remaining regions in order to allow a progressive contact movement of the lateral regions of the bladder with the sidewalls with very little tension and relative movement between the lateral regions of the bladder and the sidewalls of the tire. | 04-15-2010 |
20100288424 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING PNEUMATIC TIRE - The present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire with reduced dynamic unbalance and enhanced durability. The method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire having projections in a buttress portion comprises the steps of laminating a sidewall rubber | 11-18-2010 |
20150059962 | METHOD OF BUILDING A TIRE - A method of building a tire onto a tire building drum is described. The method includes the steps of: applying one or more tire building components onto the drum to form a tire carcass having carcass ends; wherein the drum has an inboard section, a center section and an outboard section. The inboard section has a rotating spindle and a sliding shaft, wherein the sliding shaft is slidable within the spindle. The inboard section has a radially expandable bead lock mounted on the spindle, said center section mounted to a hub, wherein the hub is mounted on the sliding shaft. The center section has a plurality of tiles mounted thereon that are radially expandable, wherein the outboard section of the drum is mounted on a distal end of the sliding shaft, wherein the outboard section further has a radially expandable bead lock; wherein the center section and the outboard section are axially movable by sliding of the sliding shaft. The method further includes the steps of: placing a first and second bead around the tire carcass on the drum so that the carcass ends of the tire carcass extend laterally outward of the beads; radially expanding the first and second bead locks into engagement with the first and second bead; and expanding the carcass located between the bead locks radially outward by radially expanding a center section of the tire building drum while moving only the bead lock on the outboard section axially inward towards the inboard section. | 03-05-2015 |
20160039159 | PROCESS AND VULCANISING MOULD FOR MANUFACTURING TYRES FOR VEHICLE WHEELS - A green tyre has a symmetric profile in radial section having a radially outer tread band, two radially inner beads and two sidewalls each extended from one edge of the tread band to one of the beads. During a moulding and vulcanisation treatment of the green tyre, a movement is imposed to the tread band with respect to the beads along a direction parallel to a rotation axis of the tyre, to obtain a moulded and vulcanised tyre having an asymmetric profile in radial section. A mould for vulcanizing tyres for vehicle wheels is also described, having a tread wall axially asymmetric with respect to a middle line plane of the mould. | 02-11-2016 |
20170232697 | TIRE | 08-17-2017 |
156132000 | Folding fabric about bead | 6 |
20090025858 | Manufacturing Method of Pneumatic Tire - A side surface of an apex rubber is exposed annularly by injection molding the annular apex rubber and opening a forming mold while retaining the annular apex rubber in an unvulcanized state. Further, a side surface of a rubber pad is exposed annularly by injection molding the annular rubber pad and opening a forming mold while retaining the annular rubber pad in an unvulcanized state. Thereafter, an integrated compound rubber member is formed by overlapping a lower mold retaining the apex rubber and a lower mold retaining the rubber pad and laminating the side surface of the apex rubber to the side surface of the rubber pad, and an unvulcanized tire is formed by laminating the compound rubber member to the carcass ply. | 01-29-2009 |
20090277569 | Process and Apparatus for Manufacturing a Pneumatic Tyre - A process and apparatus for turning up the carcass plies in a tyre, the tyre including a carcass structure including at least one carcass ply provided with at least one reinforcing element coated with at least one layer of elastomeric material, and at least one annular reinforcing structure. The apparatus is equipped with a support drum conveniently shaped for supporting at least one ply and with at least one turning up device provided with an annular continuous presser element. The latter is axially translatable along an axis of the support drum and radially expandable or contractible relative to the axis of the support drum between a contracted position and an expanded position to turn up the carcass ply around an annular reinforcing structure. The device is further provided with means of adjusting the contracted position of the annular element depending on the size of the tyre to be manufactured. | 11-12-2009 |
20100000662 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING GREEN TIRE AND APPARATUS FOR BUILDING GREEN TIRE - A method and apparatus for manufacturing a green tire capable of preventing the variation of carcass-cord paths between bead cores and disturbances of the carcass cord arrangement are disclosed. An assembly of a bead core and a bead apex rubber is set on the radially outside of a cylindrical carcass assembly, and they are locked with a bead lock ring expanded, while maintain the cylindrical shape. Then, applying tension to the carcass cords between the expanded bead lock rings, the bead apex rubber is folded down towards the tire equator. Further, the edges portions of the carcass are turned up around the bead cores locked. | 01-07-2010 |
20100024960 | BODY PLY AND INSERT ASSEMBLY METHOD - A tire having a tread including first and second reinforcement plies disposed between at least one carcass ply and the tread and at least one of the sidewalls of the tire. A method for making a tire body ply is also described. The method includes delivering a first rubber coating, at least one insert, a body fabric, and a second rubber coating to a bite formed by at least two calendering rollers. The method further includes pressing the first rubber coating, the body fabric, the at least one insert, and the second rubber coating through the bite and then between the at least two calendering rollers to form a tire body ply. In another embodiment, the method includes spacing a first insert from a center of the tire body ply by a first distance and a second insert from the center of the tire body ply by a second distance. | 02-04-2010 |
20120111481 | TIRE-FORMING APPARATUS AND RELATED METHODS - Apparatus and methods of forming a tire. A drum has an expansion device that is configured to turn-up the lateral ends of the tire carcass about respective bead-and-apex assemblies while generally maintaining a constant orientation of the bead-and-apex assemblies. Further, the expansion device turns-up the lateral ends of the tire carcass while at the same time radially expanding the tire carcass. The methods entail turning-up the lateral ends of the tire carcass around the bead-and-apex assemblies and also moving a portion of the tire carcass lying between the bead-and-apex assemblies in a radially-outward direction relative to an axis of rotation of the drum. | 05-10-2012 |
20150047771 | TIRE BUILDING MACHINE AND BOOST TURN-UP METHOD THEREOF - The boost turn-up method comprises a belt drum, which is carried and driven by a belt drum case, and a forming drum, which is carried and driven by a forming drum case; a first boost device, which is arranged along the axial direction, is arranged at the side part of the belt drum; a second boost device, which is arranged along the axial direction, is arranged at the side part of the forming drum; the first boost device and the second boost device are symmetrical along the vertical center line of the forming drum in the turn-up preparation process of a tire blank; the first boost device and the second boost device push the Bladder or the turn-up rods towards the center from two sides of the forming drum. Thus, the same thrust is simultaneously exerted to assist implementation of the turn-up operation. | 02-19-2015 |