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News Release from: Sensor Products | Subject: Tactilus tire tread
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 May 2005
Tyre tread wear performance profiled
Sensor Products has announced its next generation Tactilus tire tread footprint profiling system, capable of thousands of uses with consistent repeatability.
Sensor Products has announced its next generation Tactilus tire tread footprint profiling system Capable of thousands of uses with consistent repeatability, Tactilus now detects a wider range of pressures and offers greater advantages to engineers than its predecessor in the areas of adaptability and customization
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 7 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Measuring and understanding vertically loaded tire tread footprint pressure distribution is paramount to any tire design process.
Improper tire tread pressure distribution can result in bad road traction and high road noise, early tire replacement, and in extreme cases, tire failure.
Carlos Ruiz, Sensor Products' Tactilus product manager said, "Tactilus technology particularly lends itself to this sort of application.
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Not only do the systems evaluate such low pressures with ease, but save time by providing information immediately with in-depth statistical data.
He added, "Really, the response time is so immediate, these systems are also ideal for assembly line assessment for OEM's and aftermarket product manufacturers." In fact, well-known tire companies have benefited from Tactilus in the past.
For example, in an effort to continually improve the tire design process, Kumho America technical center manager Dr Hamid Aboutorabi, employed the Tactilus tire tread pressure analysis system.
Aboutorabi said, "I used the system over a period of time to obtain several static footprint pressure distribution profiles of a loaded tire.
The profiles revealed some very uneven tire tread surface contact areas.
The pressure distribution patterns we discovered helped us redesign our tires in pursuit of optimum tread surface contact and road handling properties." In addition to Kumho America, other companies are using pressure mapping technologies from Sensor Products for tire design including Bridgestone/Firestone, Goodyear, Apollo Tyres and Nokian Tyres.
Tactilus is an electronic sensor system that evaluates tactile contact pressures in real-time.
The Tactilus tire tread footprint profiling system comes equipped with all components necessary to collect data for comprehensive analysis, including the silicon substrate element with embedded matrix-based sensors, controller and user-friendly software.
The system may be employed for any application where two surfaces mate, contact or impact.
Not only is Tactilus conformable to highly curvaceous surfaces and intolerant environments, but is portable and runs on a standard laptop computer.
The upgraded feature-rich software for Tactilus offers 2-D and 3-D imaging, region-of-interest viewing, longitudinal and latitudinal analysis, graphical displays of data in bar, pressure vs.
time, line scan, histogram and isobar charts, statistical analysis of average/minimum/maximum pressures, total force over any selected area and more.
The data may also be exported to virtually any third party software.
Free on-site demonstrations of Tactilus can be scheduled by contacting Sensor Products.
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