1. A labeling system comprising: a tire data read means for reading tire data respectively on successively conveyed tires in order of conveyance in a tire producing process;
a printing means for printing the tire data on the tires on labels; and
a label attaching means for attaching the labels to the tires, respectively;
a label reading means for reading tire data printed on the labels attached to the tires; and
a collating means for collating the tire data read from the label attached to the tire by the label reading means with the tire data read by the tire data reading means.
2. (canceled)
3. The labeling system according to claim 1, wherein the printing means prints a barcode representing the tire data.
4. The labeling system according to claim 1, wherein the successively conveyed tires are green tires individually carried by carts, respectively, and
the tire data reading means is an ID card reader that reads the tire data recorded on an ID card attached to the cart.
5. A labeling method of attaching labels to tires in a tire manufacturing process comprising:
a tire data reading step of reading tire data on successively conveyed tires in order of conveyance;
a printing step of printing tire data on the tires on labels; and
a label attaching step of attaching the labels to the tires;
a label reading step of reading the tire data printed on the labels attached to the tires in the label attaching step; and
a collating step of collating the tire data read in the label reading step with the tire data read in the label reading step to determine if the tire is correctly labeled.
6. (canceled)
7. The labeling method according to claim 5, wherein different types of fires are carried individually successively in the tire data reading step.
8. A labeling method of attaching labels to fires in a fire manufacturing process comprising:
a fire data reading step of reading tire data on successively conveyed fires in order of conveyance;
a label separating step of separating labels successively mounted on a supporting strip so as to extend fully across the supporting strip and separated from each other by a slit one by one from the supporting strip while the labels are being carried by the supporting strip;
a label carrying step of carrying the label separated from the supporting strip at a label carrying speed higher than a moving speed at which the supporting strip moves;
a printing step of printing fire data on the label separated from the supporting strip; and
a label attaching step of attaching the label printed with the tire data to the fire.
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 rotary blood pump comprising:
a housing defining a pumping chamber with upper and lower interior surfaces and having a blood inlet and a tangential blood outlet;
a rotatable impeller, made from an alloy of approximately 77.6% platinum by weight and 22.4% cobalt by weight, within said pumping chamber and adapted to increase blood pressure within said pumping chamber to cause blood to move to said blood outlet, said impeller having at least one raised surface area adjacent said upper interior surface of said pumping chamber;
a first tapered region of said raised surface area having a leading portion and a trailing portion such that a gap between said first tapered region and said upper interior surface of said housing decreases from said leading portion to said trailing portion to create a hydrodynamic thrust load acting to bias said impeller axially away from said upper interior surface of said housing when said impeller is rotating, each of said first tapered regions having a shroud extending from said leading portion to said trailing portion along each of its inner and outer boundaries.
2. The rotary blood pump of claim 1 comprising at least four of said raised surface areas adjacent said upper interior surface of said pumping chamber, adjacent ones of said raised surface areas being separated by a channel extending to and defining an exit at the periphery of said impeller.
3. The rotary blood pump of claim 2 in which each of said raised surface areas is provided with one of said first tapered regions.
4. The rotary blood pump of claim 3 in which the leading portion of each of said first tapered regions comprises an entrance edge along the top of a leading sidewall of one of said channels.
5. The rotary blood pump of claim 4 in which each of said inner and outer shrouds is higher than said entrance edge and coplanar with said trailing portion of each of said first tapered regions.
6. The rotary blood pump of claim 5 in which the top surface of each of said shrouds is substantially flat and is higher than said entrance edge by approximately 0.230 inches.
7. The rotary blood pump of claim 6 in which each of said shrouds is approximately 0.020 inches wide.
8. The rotary blood pump of claim 1 in which an outer surface of each of said outer shrouds defines a portion of the periphery of said impeller.
9-18. (canceled)