TIRE RUBBER INDEX CALCULATING METHOD, DEVICE, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: KURAMOTO, Yusuke, SHIBATA, Tomonori
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 21.02.2018
• Subjects: DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; REPAIRING, OR CONNECTING VALVES TO, INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIESIN GENERAL; TESTING; TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES ORSTRUCTURES; TESTING STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING; TYRE CHANGING OR REPAIRING; TYRE INFLATION; VEHICLE TYRES; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

To precisely calculate the rubber index of a tire. A rubber index calculating device (12) measures, by a frictional energy measuring device (14), frictional energies of a tire in plural tire input conditions applied to the tire on the basis of the shear force and the slippage of a tire contact patch...