公开(公告)号：US07772521B2

公开(公告)日：2010-08-10

申请号：US10560850

申请日：2004-06-23

申请人： Donald L. Smith, Jr. ,  Daniel C. Orendorf ,  Stefan A. Parks ,  Thomas W. Bell ,  Joseph J. Peters ,  Ira L. Wood ,  Jason J. Para

发明人： Donald L. Smith, Jr. ,  Daniel C. Orendorf ,  Stefan A. Parks ,  Thomas W. Bell ,  Joseph J. Peters ,  Ira L. Wood ,  Jason J. Para

IPC分类号： B23K26/36 ,  B23K26/03

CPC分类号： B29D30/0061 ,  B23K26/0838 ,  B23K26/0884 ,  B29D30/72 ,  B29D2030/728 ,  B60C13/001

摘要： A system and associated method of marking a molded vehicle tire with laser engraved information to provide both human visible and machine readable data concerning the tire. Information contained in a barcode on the tire is read at a first station and supplied to a control unit. The physical location of human visible information previously molded into the tire is read from the tire at a second station and supplied to the control unit which uses this information to position a laser located at a third station for engaging additional human visible information pertaining to the manufacture of the tire adjacent the existing visible information to satisfy the Department of Transportation (DOT) tire marking requirements. The additional information also can be laser engraved into the tire in a machine readable encoded format, such as 2D symbols, for subsequent control and verification throughout the life of the tire.

摘要翻译： 一种用激光雕刻信息标记模制车辆轮胎的系统和相关方法，以提供关于轮胎的人类可见和机器可读数据。 包含在轮胎上的条形码的信息在第一站读取并提供给控制单元。 先前模制到轮胎中的人类可见信息的物理位置在第二站处从轮胎读取并提供给控制单元，该控制单元使用该信息来定位位于第三站处的激光器，用于接合与制造有关的附加人类可见信息 的轮胎相邻现有的可见信息，以满足运输部（DOT）的轮胎标识要求。 附加信息还可以以机器可读编码格式（例如2D符号）激光雕刻到轮胎中，以用于轮胎的整个寿命期间的后续控制和验证。