Method for adhering an electronic device to a tire inner liner

• US 20080083482A1
• Filed: 10/10/2006
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brian Matthew Logan
• Original Assignee: Brian Matthew Logan
• Inventors: Logan, Brian Matthew
• Application Number:
  US11/545,141
• Publication Number:
  US 20080083482A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 156/110.1
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/1406 Ultraviolet [UV] radiation
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/483 Reactive adhesives, e.g. chemically curing adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/4835 Heat curing adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/484 Moisture curing adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 65/4845 Radiation curing adhesives, e.g. UV light curing adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 66/1122 Single lap to lap joints, i.e. overlap joints B29C66/45, B29C66/472, B29C66/52272 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 66/532 Joining single elements to the wall of tubular articles, hollow articles or bars
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 66/61 Joining from or joining on the inside for making tubes by bending sheets and joining from the inside B29C53/387
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 66/8266 using fluid pressure directly acting on the parts to be joined
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 2030/0072 Attaching fasteners to tyres, e.g. patches, in order to connect devices to tyres
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 2030/0077 Directly attaching monitoring devices to tyres before or after vulcanization, e.g. microchips
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/06 Pneumatic tyres or parts thereof (e.g. produced by casting, moulding, compression moulding, injection moulding, centrifugal casting)
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2030/00 Pneumatic or solid tyres or parts thereof conveyor belts B29L2031/7092; drive belts B29L2031/7094; fourdrinier belts B29L2031/733
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0493 for attachment on the tyre

Abstract

A method for attaching an object against a tire inner liner by means of an adhesive, including: applying uncured adhesive between the tire inner liner and the object; selecting at least one adhesion enhancing agent from the group: air pressure, steam, moisture, heat, radiation; adding the adhesion enhancing agent to the interior of the tire while the adhesive is in an at least partially uncured state; and curing the adhesive. Air pressurization of the tire cavity may be employed as an adhesion enhancing agent to press the object against the inner liner as the adhesive cures. The air pressure operational parameters may be predetermined and selected to complement adhesive cure properties and the air pressure of the tire cavity may be varied during at least part of the adhesive cure cycle. The adhesive may be a layer of rubber patch material.

Claims

1. A method for attaching an object against a tire inner liner by means of an adhesive, comprising:

a. applying the adhesive in an uncured state between the tire inner liner and the object;

b. adding at least one adhesion enhancing agent to the interior of the tire for enhancing adhesion between the tie inner liner and the object for at least a portion of an adhesion cure cycle.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one adhesion enhancing agent is taken from group:

air pressure, steam, moisture, heat, radiation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the adhesion enhancing agent comprises air pressure introduced into the tire to press the object against the inner liner as the adhesive cures.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein further comprising selecting air pressure and air pressure operational parameters to complement adhesive cure properties.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the air pressure is maintained for at least part of the adhesive cure cycle.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein the air pressure is varied during at least part of the adhesive cure cycle.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the air pressure is increased from an initial value to a final value during at least part of the adhesive cure cycle.

8. The method according to claim 3, wherein the air pressure introduced into the tire is greater than a nominal ambient atmospheric pressure.

9. A method according to claim 3, wherein the air pressure presses the object against the tire inner across substantially an entire footprint of the object.

10. A method according to claim 9, wherein the air-pressure is a force normally directed against an outer surface of the object.

11. A method according to claim 3, wherein further comprising maintaining the air pressure while moving the tire during the adhesive cure cycle.

12. A method according to claim 1, wherein the adhesive is a layer comprising a rubber patch.

13. A method for attaching an object against a tire inner liner by means of an adhesive, comprising:

applying uncured adhesive between the tire inner liner and the object;

selecting at least one adhesion enhancing agent from the group;

air pressure, steam, moisture, heat, radiation.

adding the adhesion enhancing agent to the interior of the tire while the adhesive is in an at least partially uncured state; and

curing the adhesive.