Abstract: A tire holding device includes a guide which is provided between a pair of conveyors in a plan view and is provided on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side of any one of an upper rim and a lower rim in a tire transport direction, and the guide guides a tire so that the center of the tire is coincident with the center of any one of the upper rim and the lower rim in the tire transport direction as the tire approaches any one of the upper rim and the lower rim by means of a lifting device.

Abstract: This tire marking apparatus is a tire marking apparatus for performing marking in a tire. The tire marking apparatus includes a disk part having a central axis that is adjusted substantially perpendicularly to a printing surface of the tire; a plurality of printing parts that are provided in the disk part so as to be capable of moving forward and backward with respect to the printing surface and are arranged around the central axis; and a printing driving unit that moves at least one printing part arranged at a printing position that faces the printing surface of the tire forward.

Abstract: Provided is a tire transport method for a tire inspection system in which a tire transported from the upstream side is fastened by an upper rim and a lower rim, and a measurement is performed, wherein the method includes transport stem in which a transport mechanism having a pair of transport units split in the width direction transports the tire to a fastening position for fastening, and a parting step in which the pair of transport units is parted in the width direction, such that it is possible for the lower rim to pass between the pair of transport units.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing apparatus of the present invention includes a liftable center post which supports a green tire, and a heating portion which is fixed to the center post, is disposed inside the green tire, and transmits heat from the inside of the green tire to the green tire by radiation heat.

Abstract: A mixer includes: a casing having an introduction port at an upper portion and having a rotor provided with a blade portion for mixing a material to be mixed, inside thereof; a floating weight which blocks the introduction port; and a floating weight moving mechanism which has a horizontal movement unit capable of horizontally moving the floating weight in a supported state between a delivery position just above the introduction port and a retracted position being lateral to the introduction port, on the upper side of the introduction port, and can move the floating weight separately from the horizontal movement unit from the delivery position to a blocking position at which the floating weight blocks the introduction port.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizer system in which multiple tire vulcanizers, provided with a frame and a vulcanizing mechanism that is supported by the frame and is for vulcanizing green tires, are connected, wherein the tire vulcanizers are provided with respective alignment sections, which are provided on the respective frames and are for aligning the level positions of adjacent frames relative to each other.

Abstract: A tire testing apparatus includes: a lower rim that is formed with a lower through hole, and a rim-side inclined surface that increases in diameter in a downward direction of an inner peripheral surface of a lower end portion of the lower through hole; an upper rim that is held to face the lower rim; an insertion part capable of being inserted through the lower through hole; and an apparatus-side inclined surface that is provided at a lower end portion of the insertion part, increases in diameter from an outer peripheral surface of the insertion part in the downward direction, and is capable of coming into contact with the rim-side inclined surface.

Abstract: This rotor for kneading includes a rotor shaft (27) having a tubular shape; a blade part (22) that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft (27); and a filling body (36) that is provided in a recessed part (28) formed inside the blade part (22) and made from a material having a higher thermal conductivity than a material from which the rotor shaft (27) and the blade part (22) are made.

Abstract: This printing device includes a first supply roller and a second supply roller that supply the pair of ink ribbons; a first winding roller and a second winding roller that are pulled out from the first supply roller and the second supply roller and wind the pair of ink ribbons passing through a printing position; and a roller driving unit that rotates the first winding roller and the second winding roller. The roller driving unit includes one rotational driving device in which a rotating shaft is rotatable in a normal direction and a reverse direction, a first transmission mechanism that transmits only the rotation of the rotating shaft in the normal direction to the first winding roller, and a second transmission mechanism that transmits only the rotation of the rotating shaft in the reverse direction to the second winding roller.

Abstract: A tire vulcanizing apparatus of the present invention includes bead rings (5, 6) which support a green tire (30X), and a heater (23) which heats the green tire (30X) by radiation heat of radiation heat amounts different from each other in a tread width direction of the green tire (30X) from the inside of the green tire (30X) supported by the bead rings (5, 6).

Abstract: An unloading device includes a pair of support bodies which supports side surfaces of a vulcanized tire vulcanized by a tire vulcanizer from the lower portion in a vertical direction, and a movement portion which moves the support bodies. The movement portion includes a horizontal movement mechanism which moves the support bodies in a horizontal direction from a position at which the vulcanized tire can be extracted from the tire vulcanizer to a position at which the vulcanized tire can be held by a PCI device for cooling the vulcanized tire, and a transport mechanism which transports the vulcanized tire, which is received from the PCI device by the support bodies, to a carrying-out destination.

Abstract: The tire vulcanizer is provided with an unloading device. The unloading device removes a vulcanized tire that has been vulcanized in the main body of the vulcanizer and conveys same to a cooling position at which the vulcanized tire is cooled, and conveys the vulcanized tire that has been cooled at the cooling position to a discharge position for transfer to an exporting device for discharging the vulcanized tire. The unloading device is provided with a support section capable of supporting the vulcanized tire, a rotational movement section for rotating the support section in a plane, and a linear movement section for moving the support section linearly.

Abstract: A power source control device (401) supplies electrical power for performing vulcanizing processing of a green tire in at least one vulcanizing unit provided in the vulcanizing machine (300), from a first power source (100) capable of supplying continuous power and a second power source (200) capable of supplying charged power that is charged in advance. The power source control device (401) includes an information acquisition unit (412) and a power supply control unit (413). The information acquisition unit (412) acquires process information showing the kind of processes included in the vulcanizing processing in the vulcanizing unit (301). The power supply control unit (413) makes the charged power supplied from the second power source (200) to the vulcanizing unit (300) during a predetermined process, on the basis of the process information acquired by the information acquisition unit (412).

Abstract: A charging and discharging control device includes a pantograph point voltage detection unit configured to detect a pantograph point voltage of a vehicle, a charging and discharging control unit configured to charge a power storage device provided in a vehicle when the pantograph point voltage is greater than or equal to a charging voltage threshold value and discharge the power storage device when the pantograph point voltage is less than a discharging voltage threshold value, a load determination unit configured to determine whether an absolute value of load power for the vehicle is less than a load power threshold value, and a charging and discharging control change unit configured to reduce any one or more of the charging voltage threshold value, the discharging voltage threshold value, and charging/discharging impedance when the absolute value of the load power is less than the load power threshold value.

Abstract: A tire holding device includes a guide which is provided between a pair of conveyors in a plan view and is provided on at least one of an upstream side and a downstream side of any one of an upper rim and a lower rim in a tire transport direction, and the guide guides a tire so that the center of the tire is coincident with the center of any one of the upper rim and the lower rim in the tire transport direction as the tire approaches any one of the upper rim and the lower rim by means of a lifting device.

Abstract: Provided are a tire vulcanizer and a method for transporting or packaging the same whereby, even in cases where the overall height direction dimension of the vulcanizer exceeds size limits for domestic transportation or export packaging, the vulcanizer can easily clear said limits and be transported or packaged. A tire vulcanizer comprising tie rods extending upward from a base plate, said tie rods receiving squeezing force applied to a bolster plate and a top mold when vulcanizing a tire and guiding lifting/lowering of the bolster plate and the top mold when opening and closing the top mold. In such a tire vulcanizer, the tie rods are configured so as to be vertically dividable into at least two or more sections at a position in the length direction thereof.

Abstract: A tire testing apparatus allows attachment and detachment of a rim assembly in which first and second rims are integrated and performs testing of a tire attached to the rim assembly. The tire testing apparatus includes a first attaching part; a second attaching part; a rotating part that rotates the first attaching part around a reference axis orthogonal to the first reference surface of the first rim attached to the first attaching part; a fixing part that fixes the first attaching part and the second attaching part to each other and is capable of releasing the fixation; an attaching portion moving part that adjusts the distance in a direction along the reference axis between the first attaching part and the second attaching part; and a rotation regulating part that regulates rotation of the second attaching part around the reference axis.

Abstract: A tire holding apparatus which holds a tire using an annular rim that is detachably mounted, includes: a body section having a support surface which supports the rim; an inflation gas supply portion which has an inflation flow passage that passes from an inner portion of the body section to a center portion of the rim and supplies inflation gas into a tire supported by the rim; and a clamping portion which is mounted on the body section and clamps the rim to the support surface of the body section by using pressure of the inflation gas that flows through the inflation flow passage as a drive force.

Abstract: An electrical resistance measuring device for a tire (T) that measures the electrical resistance from a bead portion (71) to a tread portion (70) and includes a measuring tip (5a) that is curvedly deformable along the shape of the tire (T).

Abstract: Provided is a tire transport method for a tire inspection system in which a tire transported from the upstream side is fastened by an upper rim and a lower rim, and a measurement is performed, wherein the method includes transport stem in which a transport mechanism having a pair of transport units split in the width direction transports the tire to a fastening position for fastening, and a parting step in which the pair of transport units is parted in the width direction, such that it is possible for the lower rim to pass between the pair of transport units.