Application of Laser Processing Technology in The Tire Industry

In the macro background of the continuous progress of intelligent manufacturing technology, global carbon reduction and emission reduction is getting deeper and deeper, how to further reduce product manufacturing costs, improve product quality and functionality, to meet the requirements of green manufacturing, and to obtain a comprehensive advantage in market competition is a tire manufacturing enterprises have to solve the problem.
With the development of the times, the tire industry on the tire quality, function requirements are higher and higher, on the use of advanced manufacturing technology on the tire manufacturing process cost control and environmental protection more and more attention to the product to meet the market demand for higher and higher requirements. At present, most of the tire manufacturing enterprises are planning to build unmanned factories, the use of advanced low-carbon and low-consumption manufacturing process and the whole life cycle of the tire based on the network cloud platform traceability management system, in order to better meet the new needs of the tire users, tire manufacturing enterprises and users to bring value.

01. Tire mold laser cleaning
The use of laser cleaning tire molds without consumables, no damage to the mold, compared with traditional sand washing, dry ice cleaning, low energy consumption, low carbon emissions, low noise. It can clean all-steel and semi-steel tire molds, and is especially suitable for cleaning spring bushing molds that cannot be sandwashed.

02. Tire inner wall laser cleaning
With the continuous improvement of automobile driving safety requirements and new energy vehicles on the rising demand for quiet tires, self-repairing tires, quiet tires and other high-end tires are gradually becoming the first choice for automotive supporting. Domestic and foreign tire companies to produce high-end tires as a priority development direction. Realize the tire self-repair and quiet technology means there are a variety of, at present is mainly in the tire wall coated with soft solid gel polymer composite materials, to achieve the explosion-proof, anti-zapping, anti-leakage function, at the same time in the anti-leakage adhesive surface paste a layer of polyurethane sponge, to achieve the acoustic insulation, absorption of the cavity noise of the mute effect.
Both the coating of soft solid gel-like polymer composite and the adhesion of polyurethane sponge need to pre-clean the residual isolation agent on the inner wall of the tire to ensure the adhesion effect. Conventional tire inner wall cleaning mainly consists of sanding, high-pressure water and chemical cleaning. These cleaning methods will not only cause damage to the airtight layer of the tire, and sometimes the phenomenon of cleaning is not clean.
The use of laser cleaning tire inner wall, no consumables, no damage to the tire, cleaning speed, quality consistency is good, can achieve automated cleaning, without the traditional grinding of the subsequent chip clearing operations and wet cleaning after the blow-drying operation process. Laser cleaning without pollutant emissions, wash and use, for quiet tires, self-repairing tires and self-test function of the subsequent bonding of tires to make high-quality preparations.

03. Tire laser coding
The use of laser coding on the side of the finished tire instead of the traditional block printing process, the side of the tire information to delay the formation of text patterns to the subsequent inspection, shipping process. Laser coding has the following advantages: to avoid the use of the wrong block of letters caused by the loss of finished products batch; to avoid frequent replacement of the weekly number caused by the loss of downtime; effectively improve the quality of the product appearance, to eliminate the block of letters produced by the seam "flying edge"; bar code or two-dimensional code marking to make the product lifecycle management more aspects of the fast; according to the order demand flexibility The tires can be flexibly transferred according to the demand of the order, reducing the inventory and capital accumulation.