The Finnish giant tire Nokian Tyres’ the evolution of the flexible studded tire on ice. “It’s complicated. There is nothing in the near future,” says Matti Morri, the company’s chief technology officer for New Technology.
Nokian Tyres put out a film on studded tires with studs that folds in and out. Now is the focus laid on the ice.
The studs go in and out.
In February last year, Nokian Tyres out a video on Youtube and a short text about “the future of studded tires” where the studs automatic protrudes when it is cold and icy and retracts when it’s warm and snow-free.
In a short section of the film shows how the driver pressing a control button and the next picture you can see detail of a tire with studs that go in and out. The rest of the movie is a classic car commercial with great shots where a car go fast on a slippery surface and then the brakes on short distance.
In text on Nokian Tyres’ website revealed no details about the technologies that may studs to move. (Link to press release)
When new technology calls up and asks how close we are a commercial launch respond Matti Morri that it is not current in the near future.
– It is a complex technology and a complex industrial process, he said.
But how does it work technically?
- We can not reveal. There are industrial secrets, he says to new technology.
According to Mikael Fernholm, inventor of a variable double-settled wireless transmission, was Nokian Tyres movie just a publicity stunt.
– The first time I saw the film, I sent an email to the Nokian where I expressed my concern that Nokian might have infringed on my patent. Development Director Mikko Liukkula called back and said I did not have to worry about me. Nokian Tyres will never sell such a tire. The whole thing was a publicity stunt, according to him, says Mikael Fernholm.
Michael Fernholms patented technology is based on a custom-made wax press the spike pin when the heating wires get the wax to melt and expand and then pull the pin when the power is turned off and the wax hardens and creates a vacuum in the double cylinder.
According to Mikael Fernholm are Nokian system slowly.
– The major flaw is that Nokian studded come out only after 4 seconds and set to 2 seconds. It will not go faster how much they are developing the technology. This means that Nokian studded tires variable can never be used in emergencies. Also, it costs the studs and the tires they sit for more than the entire Porsche which they are mounted in the film, says Mikael Fernholm.
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