US 12,168,330 B2
Systems and methods for maintaining automated quality control during tire manufacture using specialized RFID tags
Jos Uijlenbroek, Ophemert (NL); and Jan Svoboda, Matthews, NC (US)
Assigned to FineLine Technologies, Norcross, GA (US)
Filed by FineLine Technologies, Norcross, GA (US)
Filed on Aug. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/236,065.
Application 18/236,065 is a continuation of application No. 17/891,680, filed on Aug. 19, 2022, granted, now 11,752,716.
Application 17/891,680 is a continuation of application No. 17/299,939, granted, now 11,453,186, issued on Sep. 27, 2022, previously published as PCT/US2019/065130, filed on Dec. 9, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/771,621, filed on Nov. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0391031 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B29D 30/00 (2006.01); G06K 19/077 (2006.01)
CPC B29D 30/0061 (2013.01) [G06K 19/07764 (2013.01); B29D 2030/0066 (2013.01); B29D 2030/0083 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for tracking tire manufacture and quality control with an RFID equipped tire mold system comprising:
(a) providing an RFID equipped tire mold having a plurality of mold segments
and/or
mold shoes and mold bladder components;
(b) placing the green unvulcanized tire into the RFID equipped tire mold;
(c) forming a vulcanized tire;
(d) removing the vulcanized tire from the tire mold
and determining whether any defects are present in the vulcanized tire,
wherein:
if no defects are present in the vulcanized tire, the vulcanized tire enters a supply chain and all data related to manufacture of the vulcanized tire with no defects is electronically stored within a database for review at a later date if necessary, but
if defects are present in the vulcanized tire after step (c), further correlating a defect position on the vulcanized tire with the corresponding position in the RFID equipped tire mold based on unique RFID identifiers provided by the RFID equipped tire mold and further determining whether repair is necessary to portions of the RFID equipped tire mold and/or whether vulcanization parameters should be modified to prevent and/or reduce occurrence of defects in the vulcanized tire(s).