Tire Warmer
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a tire warmer, in particular for tires to be used in motor-cycling and motor-racing, which comprises a body wrappable to the wheel, at the tire, and seating a resistor for heating the tire. Such resistor is connected to electrical supply means actuable by a control device connected to a temperature sensor associable to the tread of the tire. Moreover, the tire warmer comprises a regulating device of the pressure of gas contained by the tire.
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- 29. Tire warmer, in particular for tires to be used in motor-cycling and motor-racing, comprising a body wrappable to the wheel at the tyre and seating a resistor for warming said tyre, connected to electrical supply means actuable by a control device connected to a temperature sensor associable to said wheel for detecting the temperature of said tyre, characterised in that it comprises a regulating device of the pressure of gas contained by said tyre.
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42. Method for warming tires, in particular tires to be used in motor-cycling and motor-racing, comprising the following steps:
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providing electrical resistor means wrappable around a tire; providing means for detecting the inner pressure (P) of said tire; providing means for detecting the temperature (T) of said tire; setting the final warming temperature (T*) of said tire; warming said tire by said electrical resistor means, regulating the activation and deactivation of the latter so as to thermostat the temperature of said tire at said predefined warming temperature (T*); once reached said preset temperature value (T*), determining the inner pressure gradient over time (GP) of said tire; and taking as thermal gradient absence indicator in the tire wall thickness an inner pressure gradient over time (GP) close to zero. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46)
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