The invention provides a tire appearance defect detection
system and method, and relates to the technical field of industrial automatic detection. The method comprises the following steps: automatically guiding and centralizing a horizontal incoming tire into a vertical posture, centering and then accelerating conveying; guiding the tire to enable the tire to be accurately positioned at a detection
station; the tire is inserted from the inner sides of an upper tire opening and a lower tire opening of the tire, clamped, lifted away, suspended and fixed, then the tire side is radially expanded to form an annular detection channel, and the tire is driven to rotate at a
constant speed;
image acquisition of the inner cavity and the outer surface is synchronously carried out in the
tire rotation period; and releasing and pushing out the tire after the detection is completed. The
system is formed by sequentially connecting a tire guide-in centering device, a transition mechanism, a detection
station device, a tire expander, a tire inner / outer detection device and a push-out mechanism. The full-automatic tire appearance detection device realizes full
automation of tire appearance detection from feeding, positioning, expansion, rotation,
image acquisition to blanking, improves the production takt and the internal and external detection precision through an internal nondestructive clamping expansion and synchronous rotation detection technology, and realizes automatic tire detection.