摘要 |
<p>A tire defect detection system (10) including a support structure (12) for receiving a tire (15); an actuator disposed proximate the tire (15) for impacting the tire (15); a microphone (14) disposed proximate the actuator for receiving a sound wave generated when the actuator impacts the tire (15); and a computer (22) responsive to the microphone (14), the computer (22) programmed to calculate a number of discriminator quantities from the resulting sound wave and to compare the calculated discriminator quantities with stored discriminator quantities indicative of a defect to determine whether a defect is present in the tire (15).</p> |