Patents by Inventor Jun Matsuda

Jun Matsuda has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210370728
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes, on a tire inner surface, at least one housing body made of rubber and configured to accommodate a sensor unit including a sensor for acquiring tire information. The housing body includes an opening portion through which the sensor unit is inserted, and is vulcanization-bonded to the tire inner surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro NARUSE, Jun MATSUDA, Takashi HOSHIBA
  • Publication number: 20210373051
    Abstract: A current detection device has a first base material, a second base material, and a third base material that are coated with insulation and connected between a three-phase inverter and a motor. The first base material is disposed on the upper surface of the third base material in close contact therewith and comprises, in a section which is not coated with insulation, a first resistor and a first measurement terminal which are fixed atop the first base material. The second base material is disposed on the lower surface of the third base material in close contact therewith and comprises, in a section which is not coated with insulation, a second resistor and second measurement terminal which are fixed atop the second base material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jun Matsuda, Akio MUGISHIMA
  • Patent number: 11135876
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including a belt layer. When the tread region indicates a region corresponding to a belt width of the belt layer and the side region indicates a region inward of a tire radial direction with respect to a tire maximum width position, the carcass cords forming the carcass layer are inclined with respect to the tire radial direction in the tread region, and at the same time, extend along the tire radial direction in the side region. The carcass cords forming the carcass layer and belt cords forming the belt layer cross with each other in the tread region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Jun Matsuda, Yuji Satoh, Yuji Kodama
  • Publication number: 20210300126
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a sound absorbing member having a band shape. The sound absorbing member is bonded to an inner surface of a tread portion along a tire circumferential direction. The sound absorbing member includes a missing portion at at least one location in the tire circumferential direction. The at least one missing portion is disposed in a range corresponding to a light point in a tire main body. A correction body for correcting weight unbalance is fixed to a tire inner surface in the missing portion within the range corresponding to the light point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro Naruse, Jun Matsuda, Takashi Hoshiba
  • Publication number: 20210300127
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes at least one sound absorbing member having a band-like shape. The sound absorbing member is bonded to an inner surface of a tread portion along a tire circumferential direction. A correction body for correcting weight unbalance is fixed to a tire inner surface in a range corresponding to a light point of an entire tire including the sound absorbing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Takashi Hoshiba, Masahiro Naruse, Jun Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20210291470
    Abstract: Provided are a pneumatic tire and a method of manufacturing the same is provided. An information display unit is configured to display, in a tire surface, information relating to attachment of a sensor unit configured to acquire tire information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Masahiro Naruse, Takashi Hoshiba, Jun Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20210221183
    Abstract: In this pneumatic tire, the bead core has a predetermined wire array structure obtained by arranging wire cross-sections of bead wires in a cross-sectional view in a tire meridian direction. The following are defined in the wire array structure: a tangent line that contacts, from the side of a rim fitting face, an innermost layer in the tire radial direction and the wire cross-section on the innermost side and the outermost side in the tire lateral direction; contact points of the tangent line with respect to the wire cross-sections on the innermost side and the outermost side; a middle point of the contact points; and gauges in the tire radial direction from the contact points and middle point to the rim fitting face. In this case, the change rates of the gauges before and after rim assembly each are in the range of 10% to 60%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku ` Koda, Jun Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11040580
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire including a side reinforcing layer, the maximum width W0 of a bead core and the widths W1, W2 of the bead core at innermost and outermost sides in the radial direction, respectively, satisfy W1>W2 and W2?0.5×W0. W0 is toward the inside of the center of the bead core in the radial direction. A carcass is folded and curved along the bead core, and a folded back portion of the carcass extends toward the sidewalls while contacting a body of the carcass. A rubber occupancy ratio in a region formed by the body and the folded back portion of the carcass is 0.1% to 15%. The cross-sectional area S2 of a filler toward the outside of the carcass in the lateral direction, the hardness H2 of the filler, the cross-sectional area S1 of a side reinforcing layer and the hardness H1 of the side reinforcing layer satisfy 0.15?(S2×H2)/(S1×H1)?0.60.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventors: Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda, Atsushi Tanno, Masaaki Nagayasu, Ryohei Takemori, Yuki Sasaya
  • Patent number: 11034189
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. Both terminals of a carcass layer are overlapped with each other in a tread region. The carcass layer has a triple layer structure including an inner layer positioned most inward in a tire radial direction in the tread region, an outer layer positioned most outward in the tire radial direction in the tread region, and an intermediate layer positioned between the inner layer and the outer layer in the tread region. A cord angle in the carcass layer in a tread central region with respect to a tire circumferential direction differs in at least one of the inner layer, the outer layer, and the intermediate layer from a cord angle in the carcass layer in a side region with respect to the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventors: Jun Matsuda, Yuji Satoh, Yuji Kodama
  • Publication number: 20210170807
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided. In a meridian cross-section, an external contour shape of the bead core is a polygon formed by common tangent lines of a plurality of circumferential portions of a bead wire, the external contour shape includes a single vertex located toward the outside in a tire radial direction, an internal angle formed by two sides sandwiching the vertex is an acute angle, a bottom side of the external contour shape is inclined with respect to the tire lateral direction by from 2° to 9°, and the carcass layer is bent and folded back along a circumference of the bead core in a bead portion, a folded back portion of the carcass layer from a position of an outer end of the bead core in the tire radial direction extends toward a sidewall portion in contact with a body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Ryohei Takemori, Masaaki Nagayasu, Yuki Sasaya, Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20210170806
    Abstract: In a cross-section of a pneumatic tire, a contour of the bead core is a polygon formed by tangent lines of circumferential portions of a bead wire, the contour includes a vertex with an acute angle and a bottom side opposite the vertex, the carcass layer is folded back along a circumference of the bead core in a bead portion, a folded back portion of the carcass layer from an outer end of the bead core extends in the radial direction, and a distance in the radial direction between a center of an arc profile of a tire outer surface and a straight line extending in the lateral direction through the vertex is within 20% of a radius r of the arc, and a distance in the lateral direction between the center of the arc and a straight line extending in the radial direction through the vertex is within 2r±0.4r.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki Sasaya, Masaaki Nagayasu, Ryohei Takemori, Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20210170808
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, bead cores have a wire arrangement. In a cross-sectional view in a tire meridian direction, a tangential line and a contact point are defined. The tangential line contacts an innermost layer in a radial direction and the wire cross sections innermost and outermost in a lateral direction in the wire arrangement from a rim fitting surface side. The contact point of the tangent line is on the wire cross section on the outermost side. A gauge Wh in the lateral direction from the contact point to the rim fitting surface and an outer diameter ? of the bead wire have a relationship 2.0?Wh/??15.0. A radial height H2 of a contact portion between a body portion and a turned back portion of a carcass layer has a relationship 0.80?H2/H1?3.00 to a radial height H1 of the bead cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Koda, Jun Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11014408
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. One terminal of a carcass layer extends to a ground contact edge of a tread portion positioned on an opposite side with respect to a tire center line as a reference. The carcass layer has a double layer structure including an inner layer positioned inward in a tire radial direction in a tread region and an outer layer positioned outward in the tire radial direction of the inner layer in the tread region. A cord angle in the carcass layer in a tread central region with respect to a tire circumferential direction is different from a cord angle in at least one of the inner layer and the outer layer of the carcass layer in a side region with respect to the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Inventors: Jun Matsuda, Yuji Satoh, Yuji Kodama
  • Publication number: 20200376904
    Abstract: Of layers configuring a bead core of a pneumatic tire, the width W0 of one of the layers including the greatest number of rows, the width W1, W2 of other of the layers located respectively innermost and outermost in the radial direction satisfy W1>W2 and W2?0.5×W0. The position of width W0 is inward in the radial direction of the center of the bead core. A carcass is folded and curved along the bead core and extends toward sidewalls where a folded back portion of the carcass contacts a body of the carcass. A rubber occupancy ratio in a closed region formed by the body and the folded back portion is 0.1% to 15%. The cross-sectional area S2 and hardness H2 of a filler outward of the carcass in the lateral direction, and the cross-sectional area S1 and the hardness H1 of the side reinforcing layer satisfy 0.12?(S2×H2)/(S1×H1)?0.50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda, Masaaki Nagayasu, Yuki Sasaya, Ryohei Takemori
  • Publication number: 20200376903
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire including a side reinforcing layer, the maximum width W0of a bead core and the widths W1, W2 of the bead core at innermost and outermost sides in the radial direction, respectively, satisfy W1>W2 and W2?0.5×W0. W0 is toward the inside of the center of the bead core in the radial direction. A carcass is folded and curved along the bead core, and a folded back portion of the carcass extends toward the sidewalls while contacting a body of the carcass. A rubber occupancy ratio in a region formed by the body and the folded back portion of the carcass is 0.1% to 15%. The cross-sectional area S2 of a filler toward the outside of the carcass in the lateral direction, the hardness H2 of the filler, the cross-sectional area S1of a side reinforcing layer and the hardness H1 of the side reinforcing layer satisfy 0.15?(S2×H2)/(S1×H1)?0.60.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda, Atsushi Tanno, Masaaki Nagayasu, Ryohei Takemori, Yuki Sasaya
  • Publication number: 20200361251
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a rubber occupancy ratio in a closed region is in a range of 15% or less. Bead cores have a predetermined wire arrangement structure formed by arranging wire cross sections of bead wires in a cross-sectional view in a tire meridian direction. A tangential contacts an innermost layer in a tire radial direction and the wire cross sections innermost and outermost in a tire lateral direction in the wire arrangement structure from a rim fitting surface side. Contact points of the tangent line are on the innermost and outermost wire cross sections. A gauge is in the tire lateral direction from the midpoint to the rim fitting surface. A rate of change of the gauge between before and after mounting on a rim is in a range from 10% or greater to 60% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hiraku Koda, Jun Matsuda, Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 10821548
    Abstract: Provided are a plate-material abutting device that easily adjusts a plurality of abutted positions between a plurality of pairs of abutted portions in plate materials, and a plate-material abutting method. The plate-material abutting device is employed for joining a first plate material and a second plate material in a state of being abutted to each other. The first plate material includes a first abutted portion and a second abutted portion that is different from the first abutted portion. The second plate material includes a third abutted portion corresponding to the first abutted portion, and a fourth abutted portion corresponding to the second abutted portion. The plate-material abutting device includes a first abutting mechanism for abutting the first and third abutted portions to each other, and a second abutting mechanism that moves independently from the first abutting mechanism and that abuts the second and fourth abutted portions to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamanobe, Jun Matsuda, Hiroshi Saito, Yuta Masubuchi, Yuji Iwakami
  • Publication number: 20200331302
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a turned back portion of a carcass layer contacts a body portion of the carcass layer in a cross-sectional view in a tire meridian direction to form a closed region surrounding bead cores. A rubber occupancy ratio in the closed region is in a range of 15% or less. The bead cores have a predetermined wire arrangement structure formed by arranging wire cross sections of bead wires in the cross-sectional view in the tire meridian direction. Additionally, a self-contact height (CH) of the carcass layer and a circumferential length (L) of the wire arrangement have a relationship 1.0?CH/L?10.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Hiraku Koda, Jun Matsuda, Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 10766085
    Abstract: To provide a work processing apparatus equipped with a vaporizer that requires no carrier gas and can vaporize a vaporization target liquid having a relatively high flow rate, and a method for manufacturing a processed work. A vaporizer 1 includes a vaporization part 10 including a heat storage body 11 having a heat capacity higher than that of a vaporization target liquid Fq by a predetermined ratio, and a heat supplier 20 for supplying heat to the vaporization part 10. The predetermined ratio is a ratio of heat capacity at which a temperature drop of the heat storage body 11 by heat transfer from the heat storage body 11 to the liquid Fq flowing through a path 12 is within a predetermined range, wherein the amount of heat transferred from the heat storage body 11 to the liquid Fq is an amount of heat necessary to vaporize the liquid Fq at a planned proportion. A work processing apparatus 100 includes the vaporizer 1, a chamber 5, and a vacuum pump 6 for creating a negative pressure in the chamber 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: ORIGIN COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Matsuda, Tatsuo Okubo, Naoto Ozawa
  • Patent number: 10654318
    Abstract: In view of the above, the disclosure provides a non-pneumatic tire capable of enhancing a load supporting performance and a shock absorbing effect and improving a braking and traction performance. The present disclosure provides a non-pneumatic tire comprising a band part and a spoke part; where, a band part includes an inner band and an outer band that is separated from the inner band and surrounds an outer peripheral surface of the inner band; and where, a spoke part includes a plurality of first spokes that is arranged in a circumferential direction between the inner band and the outer band and connects the inner band and the outer band. Furthermore, according to another embodiment, a spoke part may include second spokes that connected to first spokes adjacent to each other at wherein first embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: KUMHO TIRE CO., INC., THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Kee-Woon Kim, Chang-Jung Park, Chul-Woo Kwark, Gwi-Sung Shin, Soon-Wook Hwang, Michio Shimizu, Jun Matsuda