Method of modifying uniformity of a tire

• US 6,347,547 B1
• Filed: 04/28/1999
• Issued: 02/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TOYO Tire & Rubber Company Limited
• Original Assignee: TOYO Tire & Rubber Company Limited
• Inventors: Ishitsuka, Toru, Moriguchi, Kinya
• Primary Examiner(s): Fuller, Benjamin R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): AW MUSSE, ABDULLAHI H
• Application Number:
  US09/301,400
• Time in Patent Office: 1,028 Days
• Field of Search: 731/46, 73/46, 734/62, 73/7, 73/8, 73/9, 73/18.2, 73/18.4, 735/86, 735/84, 734/60, 156/75, 152/154.1
• US Class Current: 73/146
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 19/003 Balancing means attached to the tyre
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 1/32 by adding material to the body to be tested, e.g. by correcting-weights
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/022 the tyre co-operating with rotatable rolls

Abstract

In order to reduce the second harmonic of tangential force variation (TFV) of tire constituting one of factors of vibration in high speed running of a vehicle, a tire is rotated at a vibration generating speed and phase and amplitude of the second harmonic of TFV are measured and mass members M are provided or eliminated at two locations opposed to each other in the diameter direction on a circumference of the tire such that the measured second harmonic of TFV is canceled by the second harmonic of TFV caused by providing or eliminating the masses.

Claims

1. A method of modifying uniformity of a tire comprising the steps of:

measuring a phase and amplitude of a second harmonic of a tangential force variation of said tire;

rotating the tire at a vibration generating speed based on the second harmonic of the tangential force variation; and

providing mass members based on the measured phase and amplitude at two locations in the tire opposed to each other in a radial direction of the tire;

wherein the measured second harmonic of the tangential force variation is reduced by the mass members.

2. The method of modifying uniformity of a tire according to claim 1, wherein measuring the phase of the second harmonic of the tangential force variation includes converting the second harmonic of the tangential force variation into a first harmonic phase of the tangential force variation of the tire and the mass members are provided within a range of 32.0°

through 61.0°

from a bottom position of the tire in a rotational direction thereby minimizing the second harmonic of the tangential force variation.

3. The method of modifying uniformity of a tire comprising the steps of:

measuring a phase and amplitude of a second harmonic of a tangential force variation of said tire;

rotating the tire at a vibration generating speed based on the second harmonic of the tangential force variation; and

reducing the second harmonic of the tangential force variation by eliminating mass at two locations in the tire opposed to each other in the radial direction of the tire based on the measured phase and amplitude of the second harmonic of the tangential force variation, such that the measured second harmonic of the tangential force variation is reduced by eliminating the masses, wherein measuring the phase of the second harmonic of the tangential force variation includes converting the second harmonic of the tangential force variation into a first harmonic phase of the tangential force variation of the tire and the masses eliminated are within a range of 32.0°

through 61.0°

from a bottom position of the tire in a rotational direction thereby minimizing the second harmonic.