1. A method of testing tire performance using a wheel, the method comprising the steps of:
providing a wheel configured to rotate, the wheel having a tire operating surface arranged along an annular side of the wheel and configured to engage a tire during operation, the tire operating surface having a width extending laterally relative a circumferential direction of the wheel along a contoured path;
engaging forcefully a tread of a tire against the tire operating surface of the wheel; and,
rotating the tire and the wheel while engaged according to the prior step for a sufficient duration to evaluate the tire.
2. The method of claim 1, where the tire operating surface tapers radially inward toward the rotational axis of the wheel as the surface extends laterally outward relative a centerline of the tire operating surface, the centerline extending circumferentially around the tire operating surface.
3. The method of claim 1, where the width of the tire operating surface extends laterally along a convex path to form a laterally convex tire operating surface.
4. (canceled)
5. The method of claim 1, where the contoured path is defined by a constant radius of curvature.
6. The method of claim 2, where the convex path is defined by a constant radius of curvature and the radius of curvature has an origin located
at the intersection of the plane and the rotational axis of the wheel.
7. The method of claim 2, where the convex path is defined by a constant radius of curvature and the radius of curvature has an origin located along the plane and between the rotational axis of the wheel and the tire operating surface.
8. The method of claim 2, where the convex path is defined by a constant radius of curvature and the radius of curvature has an origin located along the plane such that the rotational axis of the wheel is located between the tire operating surface and the origin.
9. The method of claim 1, where the contoured path is defined by two or more different radii of curvatures.
10. The method of claim 1, where the contour path provides a contoured portion arranged between a pair of cylindrical portions.
11. The method of claim 1, where the contoured path defines a convex, central portion arranged between a pair of counter-curvature portions in an axial direction of the wheel, the pair of counter-curvature portions forming a concave side of the wheel.
12. A machine for testing tire performance, the machine comprising:
a wheel configured to rotate, the wheel having a tire operating surface arranged along an annular side of the wheel and configured to engage a tire during operation, the tire operating surface having a width extending laterally relative a circumferential direction of the wheel along a contoured path
a drive source configured to rotate the wheel;
a tire mount configured to rotatably maintain a tire and forcefully maintain the tire against the wheel.
13. The machine of claim 12, where the tire operating surface tapers radially inward toward the rotational axis of the wheel as the surface extends laterally outward relative a centerline of the tire operating surface, the centerline extending circumferentially around the tire operating surface.
14. The machine of claim 13, where at least a portion of the width of the tire operating surface extends laterally along a convex path to form a laterally convex tire operating surface.
15. (canceled)
16. The machine of claim 12, where at least a portion of the contoured path is defined by a constant radius of curvature.
17. The machine of claim 14, where the convex path is defined by a constant radius of curvature and the radius of curvature has an origin located at the intersection of the plane and the rotational axis of the wheel.
18. The machine of claim 14, where the convex path is defined by a constant radius of curvature and the radius of curvature has an origin located along the plane and between the rotational axis of the wheel and the tire operating surface.
19. The machine of claim 14, where the convex path is defined by a constant radius of curvature and the radius of curvature has an origin located along the plane such that the rotational axis of the wheel is located between the tire operating surface and the origin.
20. The machine of claim 12, where the contoured path is defined by two or more different radii of curvatures.
21. The machine of claim 12, where the contoured path provides a contoured portion arranged between a pair of cylindrical portions.
22. The machine of claim 12, where the contoured path defines a convex, central portion arranged between a pair of counter-curvature portions in an axial direction of the wheel, the pair of counter-curvature portions forming a concave side of the wheel.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A video creating system for completing one video work by integrating a plurality of video constituent data, the video creating system comprising:
a plurality of individual editing tools for creating andor editing the plurality of video constituent data;
a server that acquires the plurality of video constituent data thus created andor edited and creates one piece of video data by integrating the acquired video constituent data; and
a target display section for displaying the video data acquired from the server on a predetermined machine platform,
wherein each of the plurality of individual editing tools comprises a data transmitting section that continuously operates on the individual editing tool, and whenever the video constituent data are created andor edited, the data transmitting section transmits new video constituent data thus created andor edited to the server, and
wherein, whenever the new video constituent data are acquired, the server continuously creates the latest video data by integrating the plurality of video constituent data including the new video constituent data.
2. The video creating system according to claim 1, wherein in the plurality of individual editing tools, an objection creating section for carrying out creation andor editing of an object; a motion creating section for creating andor editing motion of the object; an image editing section for editing an image of the object and the motion thus created; a display outputting section for displaying and outputting the object and the motion thus created; a position editing section for defining and editing a coordinate position of the created object; an effect editing section for creating an movie effect image; a sound editing section for creating a sound effect; and a scene editing section for integrating the object, the motion, the edited image, the coordinate position, the movie effect image and the sound effect to display and output a video scene are included.
3. The video creating system according to claim 1, wherein the server comprises a connecting section for network connection between the plurality of individual editing tools and the target display section and the server.
4. The video creating system according to claim 1, wherein the server comprises a video constituent data managing section for managing the video constituent data to be transmitted from the plurality of individual editing tools, and
wherein the video constituent data managing section includes:
a video constituent data storing section for causing a storage device to temporarily store the video constituent data to be transmitted from the plurality of individual editing tools, the server comprising the storage device;
a data integrating section for carrying out a process to read out the plurality of video constituent data stored by the video constituent data storing section and to integrate the plurality of video constituent data; and
an integrated data storing section for temporarily storing the integrated video data in the storage device of the server.
5. The video creating system according to claim 1, wherein the target display section has a plurality of target display sections, and platforms of the target display sections are ones of different kinds from each other.
6. The video creating system according to claim 2, wherein each of the sections included in the plurality of individual editing tools is configured by a separate computer and the computers are connected to each other by a network.
7. A program product for creating a video, the program product causing a video creating system to integrate a plurality of video constituent data to complete one video work, the video creating system being constructed by combining a plurality of computers,
wherein the video creating system comprises:
a plurality of individual editing tools for creating andor editing the plurality of video constituent data; a server that acquires the plurality of video constituent data thus created andor edited and creates one piece of video data by integrating the acquired video constituent data; and
a target display section for displaying the video data acquired from the server on a predetermined machine platform,
wherein each of the plurality of individual editing tools comprises a data transmitting section that continuously operates on the individual editing tool,
wherein the program product causes the data transmitting section to transmit, whenever the video constituent data are created andor edited, new video constituent data thus created andor edited to the server, and
wherein the program product causes the server to continuously create, whenever the new video constituent data are acquired, the latest video data by integrating the plurality of video constituent data including the new video constituent data.