Patent ID: 11959850
Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A system, for evaluating ozone deterioration of a vulcanized rubber material, in which a test tank is maintained at a predetermined ozone concentration and a fixing frame enables placement of a test sample of a vulcanized rubber material under a preset placement condition in the test tank, the system comprising:
a laser sensor disposed facing a surface of the test sample that has been placed in the test tank;
at least one camera device acquiring image data, which is digital data, by capturing at a fixed point, over time, images of the surface of the test sample;
a storage unit into which detection data of a distance from the laser sensor to the surface, which is detected over time by the laser sensor, along with the image data is input; and
a computation device configured to execute a predetermined detection data processing program that automatically determines, by comparing indication data indicating a degree of progression of ozone deterioration stored in the storage unit and each of the image data, the degree of progression of ozone deterioration with respect to the surface state of the test sample in each of the image data, based on the indication data, wherein,
a degree of change in a surface state of the test sample between a plurality of points in time being calculated by the computation device, based on the detection data, and
the change in the surface state of the test sample between the plurality of points in time being determined additionally based on the image data.