Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240131871
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, a carcass extending between the portions, and an inner rubber extending between the portions, on the inner side of the carcass. The inner rubber comprises a first portion extending through the tread portion with a first thickness and a second portion extending through the sidewall portions with a second thickness smaller than the first thickness. The land ratio of the tread portion 2 is 65% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya SASAKI, Tsukasa YANO, Rena ONITSUKA, Shigeki NISHIJIMA, Masaki TERASHIMA, Yusuke SUEYOSHI, Junya SUENO
  • Publication number: 20240131868
    Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion; a pair of bead portions; a pair of sidewall portions, each of which extend between the tread portion and a respective bead portion; a carcass that extends from one bead portion to the other, through the sidewall portions and tread portion; and an inner surface that defines a tire cavity; wherein the tread portion comprises a belt disposed outside of the carcass in a radial direction of the tire, the belt comprising one or more belt plies that extend in an axial direction of the tire; wherein each sidewall portion comprises an intermediate layer arranged inward in the tire radial direction from the carcass, wherein each intermediate layer comprises an outer edge that overlaps the belt and an inner edge arranged in the sidewall portion or bead portion; wherein the tire further comprises an inner layer arranged inward in the tire radial direction from the tread portion, the inner layer having a thickness in the radial direction defined by the carcass and inner surface; and wherei
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Axel WILDGRUBE, Niklas DIETZ, Tim MACKENROTH, Junya SUENO
  • Publication number: 20240131867
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire (1) includes: a tread portion (2) including a land portion (24) divided by a plurality of main grooves (22) formed on a tread surface (21); an inner liner (7) constituting a tire inner surface (7A) on an inner side of the tread portion (2); and a mount member (10) which is provided on the tire inner surface (7A), and to which electric equipment can be attached. In the pneumatic tire (1), acetone extraction amount (AE2) of a rubber composition constituting the inner liner (7) is larger than acetone extraction amount AE1 of a rubber composition constituting the mount member (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma YOSHIZUMI, Naoya SOFUE, Daichi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240131873
    Abstract: A motorcycle tire includes a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, and a carcass extending between the bead portions in a toroidal manner. Each of the sidewall portions is provided with a sidewall rubber. In each of the sidewall portions, a minimum thickness (Ts) is 50% or less of a minimum tire thickness (Ta) from a respective one of tread edges to a tire inner cavity surface. A minimum thickness (Ds) of the sidewall rubber is from 0.3 to 1.9 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shohei SHIBAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20240131866
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises: a tread portion having a ground contacting surface; a sidewall portions having an outer surface; a bead portions; a carcass extending between the bead portions; and an inner rubber extending between bead portions. The inner rubber comprises a first portion extending through the tread portion with a first thickness t1, and a second portion extending through the sidewall portion with a second thickness t2. The first thickness t1 is more than the second thickness t2. In a meridian cross section of the tire under its normal state, when a first reference point (Pb1), a second reference point (Pb2), a shoulder reference point (Ps), a reference line segment (Lb), and a shoulder line segment (Ls) are defined, then a length (L1) of the shoulder line segment (Ls) is 85.9% to 89.3% of a length (L2) of the reference line segment (Lb).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya SASAKI, Tsukasa YANO, Rena ONITSUKA, Masaki TERASHIMA, Yusuke SUEYOSHI, Hiroyuki NAKAYAMA, Junya SUENO
  • Publication number: 20240132706
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rubber composition for tires and a tire that can exhibit sufficient ozone resistance even if not containing paraphenylenediamine-based compound that has excellent ozone resistance; and relates to a rubber composition for tires which contains 90 parts by mass or more of a hydrogenated polymer with a hydrogenation rate of 90 mol % or more in 100 parts by mass of the rubber component; and 50 parts by mass or more of a filler and 10 parts by mass or more of a plasticizer with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component; and does not contain a paraphenylenediamine-based compound, and a tire which has a member made of the rubber composition for tires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki MATSUZAWA
  • Publication number: 20240132705
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a rubber composition from which a crosslinked rubber molded product having excellent resilience performance can be obtained. The present disclosure provides a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, and (c) a crosslinking initiator, wherein (b) the co-crosslinking agent includes (b1) a metal complex, and (b1) the metal complex is composed of (b11) a metal component, (b12) a ligand derived from an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid compound having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, and (b13) a ligand derived from a mercaptobenzothiazole-based compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayaka SHINDO, Takumi KANEKO, Hiroshi TADAOKA, Kazuyoshi SHIGA
  • Publication number: 20240131870
    Abstract: A heavy duty pneumatic tire includes a crown circumferential groove, a shoulder circumferential groove, crown lateral grooves, and crown blocks. The crown circumferential groove includes crown first-side vertexes and crown second-side vertexes and thus zigzags. The shoulder circumferential groove includes shoulder inner-side vertexes and shoulder outer-side vertexes. The crown lateral grooves are disposed at two pitch intervals of a zigzag of the crown circumferential groove and connect between the crown first-side vertexes and the shoulder inner-side vertexes. The crown blocks have crown sub-grooves having a groove width less than a groove width of the crown lateral groove. The crown sub-groove includes at least two transverse grooves extending across the crown block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki SHINOHARA
  • Publication number: 20240131865
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, a carcass extending between the pair of bead portions, and an inner rubber extending between the pair of bead portions on an inner side of the carcass. The inner rubber includes a first portion extending in the tread portion with a first thickness and a second portion extending in each of or one of the pair of sidewall portions with a second thickness. The first thickness is greater than the second thickness. In a tire meridian cross-section, a cross-sectional area of the inner rubber is in a range from 1.5% to 10% of an inner-cavity cross-sectional area of the pneumatic tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Daiki IMAI, Rena ONITSUKA, Suxiang YUAN, Junya SUENO
  • Patent number: 11964517
    Abstract: A tire 12 includes: a tread surface 34; seat contact surfaces 58 each to be in contact with a seat S of a rim R; and side surfaces 60 extending on and between the tread surface 34 and the seat contact surfaces 58. Each side surface 60 includes a flange contact surface 62 to be in contact with a flange F of the rim R, and a flange opposed surface 64 which is located radially outward of the flange contact surface 62 and is to be opposed to the flange F. The flange opposed surface 64 is formed to be a surface having a diameter increasing outward in an axial direction. A shape of the flange opposed surface 64 is represented by a circular arc, and a radius of the circular arc is not less than 11.0 mm and not greater than 20.0 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Higuchi, Kenji Kodama, Kazuma Ujigawa, Kiyotaka Ueyama
  • Patent number: 11965843
    Abstract: A chemical bond evaluation method capable of directly evaluating the presence or absence of a chemical bond between silica and a silane coupling agent includes performing multidimensional solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis on a rubber composition comprising a rubber component, a silica, and a silane coupling agent; and evaluating the presence or absence of a chemical bond between silica and the silane coupling agent in the rubber composition containing a rubber component, the silica, and the silane coupling agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Fukuchi, Takehiro Kitaura, Hiroaki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20240123765
    Abstract: Provided is a tire in which cracks do not occur in the tire inner member during high-speed running and the occurrence of tire air leakage and detachment of electronic component mounting members is suppressed. A tire in which an electronic component mounting member for a built-in electronic component is mounted on the surface of a tire inner member, wherein the electronic component mounting member has an electronic component storage portion for storing an electronic component and a joint portion equipped with a joint surface for mounting the electronic component mounting member on the surface of the tire inner member, and the acetone extraction weight AEr (mass %) of the electronic component mounting member and the acetone extraction weight AEi (mass %) of the tire inner member satisfy (formula 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma YOSHIZUMI, Naoya SOFUE, Daichi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240123767
    Abstract: A tire includes a tread. The tread can include a cap portion and a base portion. The cap portion can include an outer cap portion on an outer side in a width direction of a vehicle when the tire is mounted to the vehicle, and an inner cap portion on an inner side in the width direction of the vehicle when the tire is mounted to the vehicle. A 300% modulus of the inner cap portion can be not less than 5.0 MPa. A 300% modulus of the outer cap portion can be higher than the 300% modulus of the inner cap portion, and can be not greater than 9.0 MPa. A first shoulder land portion can include a boundary between the outer cap portion and the inner cap portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shiho OKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20240123771
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire (1) includes: a tread portion (2) including a land portion (24) divided by a plurality of main grooves (22) formed on a tread surface (21); an inner liner (7) constituting a tire inner surface (7A) on an inner side of the tread portion (2); and a mount member (10) which is provided on the tire inner surface (7A), and to which electric equipment can be attached. In the pneumatic tire (1), Complex elastic modulus E*1 of a rubber composition constituting the mount member (10) is larger than complex elastic modulus E*2 of a rubber composition constituting the inner liner (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Daichi AOKI
  • Publication number: 20240123776
    Abstract: A tire assembly includes a tire for mounting on a vehicle, an elastic body disposed on an inner side of the tire, and a power generation body disposed between an inner surface of the tire and the elastic body. The power generation body includes a first member and a second member. The first member has a first insulating film forming a first surface. The second member has a second insulating film forming a second surface that faces the first surface and contacts the first surface. The elastic body biases the power generation body toward the inner surface of the tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicants: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., The School Corporation Kansai University
    Inventors: Mutsuki SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi TANI, Kenichi KURODA, Takahiro FUJIWARA, Kyota SUGIOKA
  • Patent number: 11958320
    Abstract: A tire having a tread portion provided with a first circumferential groove and a second circumferential groove each extending in the tire circumferential direction, and lateral grooves connecting between the first circumferential groove and the second circumferential groove. The first circumferential groove extends zigzag and comprises a radially outer first portion having the smallest width and a radially inner second portion having a width larger than that of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Yoshino
  • Patent number: D1023199
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Jimmy H. Kuan, Isaac Chang
  • Patent number: D1023201
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Jimmy H. Kuan
  • Patent number: D1023203
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Mimura, Yosuke Yamamoto
  • Patent number: D1024238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Isaac Chang