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COˇCS,
O-Bead, And Flat Force Blocks:
Rounding Out Consistent Performance.
COˇCS: Optimizing Tire Design With
Neural
Networks. |
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A tire consists
of several structural components, including
the carcass, the bead, the belts, and
various types of rubber. The designs used by
tire manufacturers to combine these elements
determine the majority of a tire's
performance characteristics.including
handling, comfort, noise levels, and more.
This means better designs can bring out
previously untapped performance potential
found in the various elements of tire
construction.
We now optimize
tire design in
COˇCS
through the tire industry's first
application of neural networks. Those
networks mimic the parallel processing
characteristics of the brain to handle vast
amounts of calculations. Neural networks
have supported unprecedented advances in
tire design, especially in the area of
surface contact with the road. That has led
to improvements in tire performance,
especially in regard to handling stability. |
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Optimizing the contact surface using
advanced COˇCS technology
This computer diagram shows a simulation
of the distribution of pressure on the
tire contact surface. |
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We have
improved on our O-Bead technology and
supplemented it with our all-new Flat Force
Block configuration to make tires even
rounder. |
In the
O-Bead
component of
UNI-T
technology, we have improved the structure
of the bead wire to keep tires even rounder.
Our improvement stiffens the bead shape,
which enforces a more precise roundness.
We have accompanied
O-Bead
with and improved design for tread blocks
that improves roundness. Tire manufacturers
vary the shape of the tread blocks on tires
to reduce noise. But the different-sized
tread blocks tend to differ in hardness and
even - under the pressure of contact with
the road - in thickness. Our new Flat Force
Block configuration helps maintain
consistent hardness and thickness among all
the tread blocks, maintaining tire
roundness. This results in improved handling
stability. |
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