TIRE SIDEWALL DEFORMATION DETECTION TECHNIQUES

摘要

-1-ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSUREAn improvement in a tire manufacturing systemincluding means for testing the extent of sidewalldeformation of a tire. The tire is rotated and mea-sured for lateral runout of both sidewalls. Theresulting data is converted to digital form andanalyzed by groups in order to increase the accuracyby which unacceptable sidewall bulges and valleysare detected.