Sumitomo Rubber, the world's leading tire manufacturing company, announced that it has successfully developed a new artificial intelligence-based technology, "Tyre Leap AI Analysis", which uses real data related to raw materials and combines further internal rubber structure. The analysis can not only accurately predict the performance of the rubber, but also detect the structural changes of the rubber during use, thereby predicting the performance of the rubber after use. In order to take full advantage of this breakthrough technology, Sumitomo Rubber Group plans to speed up the development of Performance Sustaining Technology, which is designed to slow down tire performance degradation due to wear and time, so that tires can last for a long time. Maintaining the same performance as new tires, this is also one of the core R & D directions in "SMART TYRE CONCEPT". The concept hopes to achieve sustainable development by developing safe and worry-free high-performance rubber tires. Make a contribution to the travel community.
In fact, the rubber used to make tires is a compound of a variety of materials, including polymers (such as natural rubber and synthetic rubber), reinforcing agents (such as carbon black and silica), cross-linking agents, additives, etc. Materials, and the proportion of these materials and the structure of the combination will directly determine the performance of the tire. Because rubber has such a complex structure, human research on it has encountered a bottleneck both in terms of time required and accuracy of results.
To solve this problem, Sumitomo Rubber uses advanced artificial intelligence-based analysis technology (Note: This technology was jointly developed by Sumitomo Rubber Industries and Professor Miki Haseyama of Hokkaido University) to analyze electron microscope images of rubber mixtures, etc. High-precision analysis far beyond the capabilities of human beings, so as to accurately estimate the actual performance of rubber with the structural data found in the images. At the same time, the corresponding integration of raw material data and internal structure data contained in rubber compounds can further improve the accurate estimation of rubber properties. In addition, "Tyre Leap AI Analysis" can also accurately detect the structural changes that occur before and after the use of rubber, which means that the new technology has great potential in future applications, such as predicting changes in performance after rubber is used.
Sumitomo Rubber, tire companies, polymers
Get new structural data to accurately estimate rubber performance + detect structural changes in rubber
As a century-old tire company, Sumitomo Rubber has launched the "smart tire concept" as a new tire technology development concept. It hopes that by launching "higher safety performance" and "better environmental protection performance" automotive service solutions, it will respond to the entire automotive industry. The huge changes that have taken place since entering the Chinese market in 2002, Sumitomo Rubber, along with its two major tire brands, Dunlop Tires and FALKEN Tires, have continued to be oriented towards consumer demand to provide consumers with a satisfactory product experience. In the future, Sumitomo Rubber Industry will continue to work hard to advance various research, develop new core technologies, lead the tire industry, and build scientific and technological strength.