Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11897290
    Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion including a first tread edge, a first shoulder circumferential groove, and a first shoulder land portion demarcated by the first shoulder circumferential groove to include the first tread edge. The first shoulder land portion is provided with first shoulder lateral grooves extending from the first shoulder circumferential groove to the first tread edge. One of the first shoulder lateral grooves includes first and second groove walls which face each other, and a tie-bar. The tie-bar includes an outer surface extending along a ground contact surface of the first shoulder land portion, the outer surface being connected to the first and second groove walls. The outer surface includes a first edge connected to the first groove wall, and a second edge connected to the second groove wall, the second edge having a length smaller than a length of the first edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuya Meguro
  • Patent number: 11897287
    Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion including first and second tread edges, a first shoulder land portion including the first tread edge, and a first shoulder circumferential groove located inwardly in a tire axial direction of and adjacent to the first shoulder land portion and extending continuously in a tire circumferential direction. The first shoulder land portion is provided with a plurality of first shoulder lateral grooves extending from the first shoulder circumferential groove across the first tread edge, each of the plurality of first shoulder lateral grooves has a pair of first groove walls, and the pair of first groove walls is provided with a pair of first chamfer portions that extends from the first shoulder circumferential groove to a first location beyond the first tread edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kawanoue, Daiki Imai, Saori Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20240042287
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a striking face, a sole portion, a top portion, a hosel, a rear surface, a loft no less than 40°, a virtual vertical plane, and a center of gravity. The striking face has a face center, a leading edge, and a virtual striking face plane. The hosel includes an internal bore configured to receive a golf shaft and includes a peripheral side wall and a shaft abutment surface configured to abut a tip end of the golf shaft. The rear surface is opposite the striking face and has an upper portion and a lower portion, the lower portion including a forward-extending recess. The insert covers the recess forming a hollow portion. The virtual vertical plane is perpendicular to the striking face plane and passes through the face center. The center of gravity is spaced a distance from the virtual vertical plane in the heel-to-toe direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Patrick RIPP, Philip SEAGRAM, Mika BECKTOR, Keith DOLEZEL
  • Publication number: 20240042813
    Abstract: Provided is a tire having excellent peeling resistance such that it is unsusceptible to having an electronic component peel off from the surface of the tire, even when a large impact is exerted on the tire during high-speed travel. An electronic component attachment member for embedding an electronic component is attached to a surface of a tire inner member disposed in a tire inner cavity. The electronic component attachment member comprises an electronic component storage part for storing an electronic component, and a bonding part having a bonding surface for attaching the electronic component attachment member to the surface of the tire inner member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoya SOFUE, Takuma YOSHIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240034098
    Abstract: Provided is a tire that allows reduction of uneven wear such as heel-and-toe wear around a plurality of closed sipes. The tire includes a tread portion 2. A plurality of closed sipes 8 are aligned in a tire axial direction in a land portion 4 of the tread portion 2. Each of the closed sipes 8 includes a sipe bottom 8d, a first end 8a and a second end 8b, a first sipe piece 11, a second sipe piece 12, a third sipe piece 13, and at least one tie bar 20. The closed sipes 8 aligned in the tire axial direction overlap each other in the tire axial direction and a tire circumferential direction. The tie bar 20 includes a first tie bar 21. A center, in a sipe length direction, of the first tie bar 21 is disposed closer to a first intersecting portion 18 than a center, in a length direction, of the first sipe piece 11 is. A distance from the first tie bar 21 to the first intersecting portion 18 is not greater than 25% of a length of the first sipe piece 11.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuma MORI, Koichi NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240034104
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire can have a tread portion. A sponge-like sound absorbing member can be attached to an inner surface of the tread portion. The sound absorbing member can have an outer peripheral surface facing outward in a tire radial direction. A plurality of grooves, and a plurality of land portions separated from each other by the plurality of grooves, can be formed in the outer peripheral surface. Each of the plurality of grooves can have an opening width at the outer peripheral surface larger than a groove bottom width of the groove in a cross-section thereof perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya SATO, Sho MATSUNAMI, Naoki YUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240034103
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire can have a tread portion. A sponge-like sound absorbing member can be on an inner surface of the tread portion. The sound absorbing member can have an outer peripheral surface facing outward in a tire radial direction. A plurality of grooves, and a plurality of land portions separated from each other by the plurality of grooves, can be formed in the outer peripheral surface. Each of the plurality of land portions can be attached to the inner surface continuously along a longitudinal direction of the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sho MATSUNAMI, Naoki YUKAWA, Takuya SATO
  • Publication number: 20240033588
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a striking face having a face center and defining a face plane, a virtual vertical center plane perpendicular to the face plane and passing through the face center, a sole portion, a top portion, a heel portion, a toe portion, a hose) configured to receive a shaft, and a loft, L, no less than 39°. A center of gravity is spaced from the vertical center plane by a distance, D7. A moment of inertia, lyy, is measured about an axis extending in a heel to toe direction, parallel with a ground plane, and passes through the center of gravity, such that lyy/D7?527.4 g·cm/°×L?23,580 g·cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Dustin BREKKE
  • Publication number: 20240034097
    Abstract: A motorcycle tire for running on rough terrain includes a tread portion. The tread portion can include a tire equator, a first tread end, and first blocks. Each of the first blocks can include a tread surface and an outer side wall. The tread surface can include an outer edge. The outer edge can include a protrusion, a first portion, and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion can form a minor angle therebetween on the first tread end side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji NONAKA
  • Patent number: 11883721
    Abstract: A golf club head includes: a sole; a crown; a toe; a heel opposite the toe; a strike face generally bounded by a face perimeter edge, the strike face comprising a geometric center; a rear portion; and a substantially enclosed interior cavity at least partially delimited by the sole, the crown, the strike face, and the rear portion. The golf club head also includes at least one rib having a first portion secured to the strike face, having a second portion secured to the crown, and being positioned such that a location on the strike face laterally spaced toe-ward from the geometric center by no less than 0.4 in is associated with a COR value no less than 0.825.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Robert J. Horacek, Nathaniel J. Radcliffe, John J. Rae, Michael J. Wallans, Sam G. Lacey
  • Patent number: 11884803
    Abstract: A rubber composition capable of manufacturing a sheet transport roller having an excellent friction coefficient and wear resistance. A sheet transport roller rubber composition contains an ethylene-?-olefin-diene copolymer as a base rubber, a sulfur-based crosslinking agent, and a coumarone-indene resin. It is preferable that the sheet transport roller rubber composition be obtained by mixing the base rubber and the coumarone-indene resin at a temperature equal to or higher than a softening point of the coumarone-indene resin to prepare a mixture, and then mixing this mixture with a sulfur-based crosslinking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Fujii, Masashi Hamakubo
  • Patent number: 11884108
    Abstract: A tire that includes a tread portion having a designated mounting direction to a vehicle can comprise: an outer shoulder land portion having a greatest width, in the tire axial direction, of a ground contact surface among five land portions. The outer shoulder land portion can include a plurality of outer shoulder sipes connected to an outer shoulder circumferential groove. An outer middle land portion can include a plurality of outer middle sipes extending completely across the outer middle land portion in the tire axial direction. The outer shoulder sipes and the outer middle sipes each can include a pair of sipe walls. The outer shoulder sipes and the outer middle sipes can each include a body portion in which the pair of sipe walls are disposed substantially parallel to each other. A width of a body portion of each outer shoulder sipe can be greater than a width of a body portion of each outer middle sipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohisa Kuriyama, Ryota Ikeda, Daichi Takatsuki, Kohei Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 11884034
    Abstract: In a tread-forming surface of a mold, a contour of a land surface-forming portion located between two projections among at least three land surface-forming portions can be represented by a single circular arc that is convex outward. In a case where, of the two projections, one projection is a wide projection and the other projection is a narrow projection, when a surface that has a contour represented by at least one circular arc and that is tangent to the at least three land surface-forming portions is defined as a reference surface of the tread-forming surface, a drop distance from the reference surface to an end on the wide projection side of the land surface-forming portion can be longer than a drop distance from the reference surface to an end on the narrow projection side of the land surface-forming portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroki Uno
  • Patent number: 11884107
    Abstract: The tire includes a tread portion having circumferential grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and land regions demarcated by the circumferential grooves. The circumferential grooves include a first circumferential groove and a second circumferential groove adjacent to the first circumferential groove and having a width larger than the first circumferential groove. The land regions include a first land region demarcated between the first circumferential groove and the second circumferential groove. The first land region has lateral grooves extending in a tire axial direction and lateral sipes extending in the tire axial direction and each having a width smaller than that of each of the lateral grooves. A total value of the widths of the lateral grooves and the lateral sipes connected to the second circumferential grooves is smaller than a total value of the widths of the lateral grooves and the lateral sipes connected to the first circumferential grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11884110
    Abstract: A tire includes a surface geometry arrangement on a surface of a sidewall portion. The surface geometry arrangement includes a ridge pair in which two ridges bend so as to intersect each other a multiple number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yosuke Komori
  • Patent number: D1012829
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Sascha Amend, Oliver Knispel, Jaap Leendertse
  • Patent number: D1013078
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Jimmy Kuan
  • Patent number: D1013079
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Jimmy Kuan
  • Patent number: D1014674
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Jimmy Kuan
  • Patent number: D1014680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Darius Cyrulik