Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include methods for coating a fiber material with manganese oxide. For example, a method may include: applying a manganese oxide precipitate to the fiber material; drying the manganese oxide precipitate; and oxidizing the manganese oxide precipitate using an oxygen plasma at a temperature below 200° C. forming a manganese(IV) oxide layer having at least 70% by weight with respect to the manganese oxide precipitate.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a fiber material composite. The composite may include: a first region including metallic silver and manganese(IV) oxide for producing reactive oxygen species; and a second region configured to neutralize the reactive oxygen species.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods for analyzing gait of a subject. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for analyzing gait of a subject, said method comprising: providing data representing the 3D-movement of a foot of said subject over time; identifying within said data first data segments that each represent of at least one stride; determining one or more stride features for each of said first data segments; and defining one or more clusters on the basis of at least one stride feature of said one or more stride features. Each of the defined clusters represents a class of strides, e.g. a class may represent the typical stride of a subject. The present invention also provides for corresponding systems that are configured to perform the methods of the present invention and the use of these systems for analyzing in assessing gait of a subject, preferably a subject suffering from a movement-impairment.

Abstract: Device and method for building a radial tire. The device includes a first drum device for building a belt package and a transfer device for transferring the belt package from the first drum device to a second drum device having arranged thereon a carcass tube from at least one airtight inner layer, a carcass play and two bead cores with core profiles. The second drum device is arranged between core clamping devices and is structured and arranged to join the carcass tube and the belt package during expansion of the second drum device. The belt package is contoured or shaped by deformation via the second drum device. This abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Abstract: Device and method for building a radial tire. The device includes a first drum device for building a belt package and a transfer device for transferring the belt package from the first drum device to a second drum device having arranged thereon a carcass tube from at least one airtight inner layer, a carcass play and two bead cores with core profiles. The second drum device is arranged between core clamping devices and is structured and arranged to join the carcass tube and the belt package during expansion of the second drum device. The belt package is contoured or shaped by deformation via the second drum device. This abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Abstract: A transportation and production system is used in building tire blanks having at least one carcass ply, an inner layer, sidewalls, two bead cores with core profiles, a belt assembly with at least two belt plies and a tread. Drums can be positioned on transportation devices and moved along at least one continuous transportation path, having stations to be delivered to for building tire components. Selected building stations have at least two respective stations that can be traveled to alternately.

Abstract: A method that can be used in the automated construction of a vehicle tire, using butt spliced tire components consisting of material webs, for example textile cords or steel cords that are embedded in a rubber mixture, to produce a carcass insert of the vehicle tire. The end sections of the cut material web can be clamped in a splicing device with pairs of upper and lower splicing elements, which can be displaced in relation to one another and the sections can be butt spliced.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire for a vehicle has a casing that extends over the periphery of the tire, a belt that extends radially on the outside of the casing over the entire periphery of the tire and in an axial direction over at least the width of the pneumatic tire. The belt is made of one or several belt plies with rigid supports which are embodied diagonally in the direction of the periphery of the tire and are embedded in a parallel manner in the rubber or plastic material. A bandage extends radially on the outside of the belt over the periphery of the tire. One or several parallel reinforcement supports are wound about the external belt position which is constructed on the construction body in a helical or spiral-shape in the axial direction of the construction body which is oriented, substantially, in the direction of the periphery which is constructed on a pivotable, rotationally-symmetrical construction body which is radial to the outer belt position of the belt in order to produce the bandage.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for building a tire casing on a tire building drum for a self-supporting radial tire, wherein the tire casing comprises an inner layer, reinforcing profiles for side walls as well as side walls, at least one casing ply and bead areas and wherein the tire building drum is provided with surrounding pockets for receiving the reinforcing profiles, characterized in that the regions of the reinforcing profiles (9) coming into contact with the inner layer (4) are provided with a groove structure, which comprises a plurality of grooves (12) extending in a continuous manner, in particular transverse to the circumferential direction of the tire building drum (10).