Patents by Inventor Kazumi Yamazaki

Kazumi Yamazaki 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).

  • Patent number: 11548347
    Abstract: A temperature adjustment circuit for a vehicle includes a first temperature adjustment circuit for vehicle interior air conditioning or heating, a second temperature adjustment circuit that is configured to transfer heat with a battery, a connection path that is configured to connect the first temperature adjustment circuit and the second temperature adjustment circuit to form a connection circuit, and a first valve and a second valve that are configured to switch between an independent state where the first temperature adjustment circuit and the second temperature adjustment circuit are independent and a connection state where the connection circuit is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ono, Toru Ogaki, Seiji Isotani, Kazumi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20210402845
    Abstract: A temperature adjustment circuit for a vehicle includes a first temperature adjustment circuit for vehicle interior air conditioning or heating, a second temperature adjustment circuit that is configured to transfer heat with a battery, a connection path that is configured to connect the first temperature adjustment circuit and the second temperature adjustment circuit to form a connection circuit, and a first valve and a second valve that are configured to switch between an independent state where the first temperature adjustment circuit and the second temperature adjustment circuit are independent and a connection state where the connection circuit is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki ONO, Toru OGAKI, Seiji ISOTANI, Kazumi YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9331349
    Abstract: A waste heat recovery system includes a fuel cell, a coolant circulation flow passage, a first heat exchanger, a waste heat recovery flow passage, a second heat exchanger, an upstream end of the waste heat recovery flow passage, and a downstream end of the waste heat recovery flow passage. The coolant circulation flow passage includes a first coolant supply flow passage, a first coolant exhaust flow passage, and a first bypass flow passage. The upstream end is connected to at least one of an inlet coolant reservoir and the first coolant exhaust flow passage at a position downstream of a connection point between the first coolant exhaust flow passage and the first bypass flow passage. The downstream end is connected to at least one of the inlet coolant reservoir, an outlet coolant reservoir, and the first coolant supply flow passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazumi Yamazaki, Kazutaka Nakai, Shiro Yagawa, Daiki Nagata
  • Publication number: 20140356748
    Abstract: A waste heat recovery system includes a fuel cell, a coolant circulation flow passage, a first heat exchanger, a waste heat recovery flow passage, a second heat exchanger, an upstream end of the waste heat recovery flow passage, and a downstream end of the waste heat recovery flow passage. The coolant circulation flow passage includes a first coolant supply flow passage, a first coolant exhaust flow passage, and a first bypass flow passage. The upstream end is connected to at least one of an inlet coolant reservoir and the first coolant exhaust flow passage at a position downstream of a connection point between the first coolant exhaust flow passage and the first bypass flow passage. The downstream end is connected to at least one of the inlet coolant reservoir, an outlet coolant reservoir, and the first coolant supply flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazumi YAMAZAKI, Kazutaka NAKAI, Shiro YAGAWA, Daiki NAGATA
  • Patent number: 8448683
    Abstract: A heavy duty pneumatic tire comprises a carcass ply of steel cords turned up around a bead core in each bead portion so as to form a pair of turned up portions and a main portion therebetween. The steel cords of the carcass ply are rubberized with a topping rubber having a hardness Ht1 of from 68 to 90 degrees. The bead core is composed of: a bead core main made of windings of a steel wire; a rubber coating penetrating into the bead core main and having a hardness Hb of from 78 to 90 degrees; and a bead core wrapping layer surrounding the bead core main and composed of at least one ply of parallel organic fiber cords rubberized with a topping rubber having a hardness Ht2 of from 70 to 90 degrees. The fineness of each of the organic fiber cords of the bead core wrapping layer is in a range of from 940 to 4200 dtex. The distances between the organic fiber cords of the bead core wrapping layer is in a range of from 0.3 to 1.4 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazumi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8272416
    Abstract: A heavy-load tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions each with a bead core therein, a carcass comprising a carcass ply of cords including a main portion and a pair of turnup portions, and an inner liner made from air-impermeable rubber and disposed on the tire internal cavity surface. The inner liner includes a radially inner portion that terminates radial inside than a lateral reference line passing through the innermost axial point and outermost axial point of the bead core. A rubber thickness ta is in a range of from 2.5 to 5.0 mm ranging from the tire internal cavity surface to the cord of the carcass ply on the lateral reference line, and an inner liner thickness tb is smaller than the rubber thickness ta and is in a range of from 0.5 to 3.0 mm on the lateral reference line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazumi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20110056607
    Abstract: A heavy duty pneumatic tire comprises a carcass ply of steel cords turned up around a bead core in each bead portion so as to form a pair of turned up portions and a main portion therebetween. The steel cords of the carcass ply are rubberized with a topping rubber having a hardness Ht1 of from 68 to 90 degrees. The bead core is composed of: a bead core main made of windings of a steel wire; a rubber coating penetrating into the bead core main and having a hardness Hb of from 78 to 90 degrees; and a bead core wrapping layer surrounding the bead core main and composed of at least one ply of parallel organic fiber cords rubberized with a topping rubber having a hardness Ht2 of from 70 to 90 degrees. The fineness of each of the organic fiber cords of the bead core wrapping layer is in a range of from 940 to 4200 dtex. The distances between the organic fiber cords of the bead core wrapping layer is in a range of from 0.3 to 1.4 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventor: Kazumi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20100300597
    Abstract: Sudden delamination damage between a carcass and a belt layer at the final stage of wear caused by thermal degradation is suppressed. In an all-steel radial structure, reinforcing rubber layer 11 having a 100% modulus which is 2 Mpa or more and is not more than 100% moduli of a topping rubber of carcass 6 and a topping rubber of belt layer 7 and having a thickness T of 0.3 to 3.5 mm is disposed between the carcass 6 and the belt layer 7. The belt layer 7 includes a pair of working belt plies 10 which radially overlap each other and whose belt cords are inclined in one and the other directions with respect to a tire equator. The working belt plies 10 are such that a flexural rigidity G of the belt cord per a single cord falls within the range of 110 to 340 gf·cm, and a belt ply flexural rigidity defined by the product G×N of the flexural rigidity G and the number N of cords per inch of working belt ply 10 falls within the range of 2,000 to 3,500 gf·cm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Kazumi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20100230026
    Abstract: A heavy-load tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions each with a bead core therein, a carcass comprising a carcass ply of cords including a main portion extending between the bead cores, and a pair of turnup portions each turned up around the bead core from the axially inside to the outside of the tire, and an inner liner made from air-impermeable rubber and disposed on the tire internal cavity surface, wherein each bead portion includes a bead reinforcing layer with an L-shaped cross section, the bead reinforcing layer comprising an axially outer piece portion disposed along the axially outside the turnup portion and a bottom piece portion integral with the outer piece portion and terminating in a sub-core area between a first radial line extending inwards along the radial direction of the tire from an innermost axial point of the bead core, and a second radial line extending inwards along the radial direction of the tire from an outermost axial point of the bead
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventor: Kazumi YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 7316254
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a cord-reinforced layer such as carcass, belt, bead reinforcing layer which is made of metallic cords, each metallic cord is made up of six to twelve metallic filaments whose diameter is in a range of from 0.15 to 0.45 mm, the metallic filaments include waved filaments and unwaved filaments, each waved filament is two-dimensionally waved at a wave pitch and wave height before twisted, the wave pitch is in a range of from 5.0 to 35.0 times the diameter of the filament, and the wave height is in a range of from 0.2 to 4.0 times the diameter of the filament, and the metallic filaments are twisted together into the cord at a twist pitch of from 10 to 40 mm so that the two-dimensionally waved filaments are each subjected to a certain rotation around its axial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignees: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Kazumi Yamazaki, Osamu Toda, Yasuo Sakai
  • Patent number: 7168470
    Abstract: Inside a tread portion and outside a belt layer along the radius direction thereof is formed a belt layer comprising a band ply formed by winding spirally a tape- and belt-form ply wherein one ore plural band cords are stretched and arranged to be embedded in a topping rubber. In this band ply, the elongation resistance value K (unit: N? cord number/cm) specified by the following equation is set within the range of 99 to 700 when the sectional area of the band cord or each of the band cords is represented by S (unit: mm2), the modulus thereof when the elongation thereof is 2% is represented by M (unit: N/mm2), the band cord arrangement density per cm of the band ply is represented by D (unit: cord number/cm).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Yukawa, Kazumi Yamazaki, Takashi Tanaka, Yasuo Wada, Makoto Hizume
  • Patent number: 7066229
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a cord-reinforced layer such as carcass, belt, bead reinforcing layer which is made of metallic cords, each metallic cord is made up of six to twelve metallic filaments whose diameter is in a range of from 0.15 to 0.45 mm, the metallic filaments include waved filaments and unwaved filaments, each waved filament is two-dimensionally waved at a wave pitch and wave height before twisted, the wave pitch is in a range of from 5.0 to 35.0 times the diameter of the filament, and the wave height is in a range of from 0.2 to 4.0 times the diameter of the filament, and the metallic filaments are twisted together into the cord at a twist pitch of from 10 to 40 mm so that the two-dimensionally waved filaments are each subjected to a certain rotation around its axial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignees: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Kazumi Yamazaki, Osamu Toda, Yasuo Sakai
  • Patent number: 7063116
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire containing a belt disposed radially outside a carcass in a tread portion, the belt including two cross plies of monofilament metallic cords laid at angles of from 15 to 30 degrees with respect to the circumferential direction of the tire, each monofilament cord composed of a waved single filament, the filament having a circular sectional shape having a diameter in the range of from 0.40 to 0.50 mm, or alternatively a non-circular sectional shape having an aspect ratio in the range of from 0.65 to 0.95 and a cross-sectional area in the range of 0.09 to 0.20 sq.mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Takeshi Ohta, Kazumi Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20060124219
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a cord-reinforced layer such as carcass, belt, bead reinforcing layer which is made of metallic cords, each metallic cord is made up of six to twelve metallic filaments whose diameter is in a range of from 0.15 to 0.45 mm, the metallic filaments include waved filaments and unwaved filaments, each waved filament is two-dimensionally waved at a wave pitch and wave height before twisted, the wave pitch is in a range of from 5.0 to 35.0 times the diameter of the filament, and the wave height is in a range of from 0.2 to 4.0 times the diameter of the filament, and the metallic filaments are twisted together into the cord at a twist pitch of from 10 to 40 mm so that the two-dimensionally waved filaments are each subjected to a certain rotation around its axial.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Kazumi Yamazaki, Osamu Toda, Yasuo Sakai
  • Patent number: 6962183
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a cord spacing between an axially outer cord layer and an axially inner cord layer such as: a turnup portion and a main portion of a carcass ply; or a bead reinforcing cord layer and a carcass ply turnup portion, is increased from the radially inside to the outside of the tire to improve the durability of the bead portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Ueyoko, Tsuneyuki Nakagawa, Minoru Nishi, Tomoyasu Shibata, Kazumi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 6959745
    Abstract: A steel cord is composed of three to six steel filaments each having a filament diameter of from 0.25 to 0.45 mm, the three to six steel filaments including shaped filaments and twisted together, wherein the shaped filaments are, before twisted together, coiled to be set in a form of coil having a coil diameter of less than 5 mm and a coil pitch of more than 5 mm, the shaped filaments include at least two kinds of shaped filaments which are different in respect of the form of coil, the shaped filaments are twisted together while the coil diameter is reduced, the elongation of the cord at 50 N load is less than 0.2%, and the cord strength is in a range of from 2500 to 3500 N/sq.mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Kazumi Yamazaki, Osamu Toda
  • Publication number: 20050189057
    Abstract: A passenger vehicle radial tire 1 includes a band layer 9 comprising a band ply A around which a band cord is spirally wound radially outside of a belt layer 7. The band cord comprises a nylon fiber cord of a single-stranded structure in which conditioned mass fineness (D) (moisture percentage 4.5%) is 1400 to 2800 dtex and elongation percentage of cord when 44N load is applied is 4.0 to 6.0%. The belt layer 7 comprises a belt ply in which steel belt cord is arranged at an angle of 10 to 40° with respect to a circumferential direction of the tire, and bending stiffness per one belt cord is set to 50 gf·cm less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventor: Kazumi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 6926053
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass extending between the bead portions and a band disposed radially outside the carcass in a tread portion and made of at least one cord laid at an angle of not more than 5 degrees with respect to the tire equator, and the band cord is made of steel filaments twisted together so as to have a variable elasticity modulus which has a transitional point from under 1000 kgf/sq.mm to over 1000 kgf/sq.mm at an elongation percentage in a range of from 1% to 5%. Preferably, the average elasticity modulus ELn of the cord from zero elongation to the transitional point is in a range of from 500 to 750 kgf/sq.mm, and the average elasticity modulus EHn of the cord from the transitional point to a breaking point of the cord is in a range of from 1200 to 3000 kgf/sq.mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Kazumi Yamazaki, Osamu Toda
  • Patent number: 6805178
    Abstract: A metallic cord is composed of metallic filaments gathered together, the metallic filaments include at least one patterned filament which is, before gathered together, two-dimensionally waved so as to have a wave form defined by plural kinds of cycles different from each other in respect of the wave length and/or wave height. A pneumatic tire includes the metallic cords as its carcass cords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyazaki, Kazumi Yamazaki, Osamu Toda
  • Patent number: 6796346
    Abstract: A bias tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions each with a bead core therein, a carcass extending between the bead portions and comprising two cross plies of cords, and a tread rubber disposed radially outside a crown portion of the carcass to define a tread face, wherein the loss tangent of the tread rubber is in a range of 0.40 to 0.60 under a temperature of 50 deg.C., the distance between the tread rubber and the adjacent cords of the radially outermost carcass ply is at most 1.0 mm, and the two cross plies include at least one ply of PEN cords made of polyethylene 2,6 naphthalate fibers twisted together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2004
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideki Otsuji, Kazumi Yamazaki, Touru Fukumoto, Norikatsu Nakata