Patent ID: 11884033
Assignee: PIRELLI TYRE S.P.A.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method for applying a sensing device to a tyre, the method comprising:
providing a tape-shaped support and a plurality of sensing devices, each sensing device having a sensing device characteristic direction, wherein each sensing device is removably fixed to the tape-shaped support at an adhesion surface of said each sensing device;
providing a handling device having a handling device characteristic direction;
feeding in sequence a set of tyres for vehicle wheels;
advancing said support for feeding in sequence said plurality of sensing devices along a respective feeding direction, wherein a first angular relation between said sensing device characteristic direction of each sensing device and said feeding direction is predetermined and is equal for all the sensing devices;
for each tyre of said set of tyres, rigidly coupling said handling device to a respective sensing device maintaining at least a portion of said adhesion surface of said respective sensing device removably fixed to said support, wherein said rigidly coupling is performed with a predetermined second angular relation between said handling device characteristic direction and said feeding direction to achieve a predetermined third angular relation between said handling device characteristic direction and said sensing device characteristic direction;
maintaining said third angular relation, completely separating said respective sensing device from said support and taking said respective sensing device away by said handling device; and
maintaining said third angular relation, applying said respective sensing device to an inner surface of said each tyre by said handling device arranged in order to achieve a predetermined fourth angular relation between said handling device characteristic direction and a direction of intersection of an equatorial plane with the inner surface of said each tyre.