Patents by Inventor Nobuo Shimozono

Nobuo Shimozono 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: 9545964
    Abstract: A crawler traveling device includes a sprocket and a rubber crawler. The sprocket is provided with a wheel portion that is mounted to a driving axle and tooth portions. The tooth portions are provided at side portions of the wheel portion, spaced apart in a sprocket circumferential direction. The rubber crawler is provided with a rubber body that is wrapped round the sprocket, a wheel portion support face that is provided at an inner periphery portion of the rubber body, and engaging recess portions. The engaging recess portions are provided, spaced apart in a crawler peripheral direction, at each of two crawler width direction side portions of the inner periphery portion to sandwich the wheel portion support face. The engaging recess portions are recessed toward the crawler outer side and the tooth portions can be inserted into and engaged with the engaging recess portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Patent number: 9193401
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a rubber crawler having reduced vibration during running and further good soil-grasping property and soil-discharging property as well as improved durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Patent number: 8888198
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a rubber crawler having high traction force and excellent straight-ahead driving property and further improved durability by ensuring good soil-grasping property and soil-discharging property of the crawler body. The rubber crawler 1 has a crawler body 10 and a plurality of metal cores 30 buried in the crawler body and lugs 13 provided on an outer periphery side with they being divided into left and right sides across the central portion, the lugs divided into left and right sides being arranged in zigzag alignment with shifting of phase in a circumferential direction of the crawler body, wherein a contact area of the each lug 13 is divided into a central lug portion 20 and an outer lug portion 22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Patent number: 8833874
    Abstract: An endless rubber elastic body 1; a plurality of cores 2 arranged at predetermined pitches and extending in a width direction of the rubber elastic body; a steel cord reinforcing layer surrounding the cores; and a lug 4 formed on an outer peripheral surface of the rubber elastic body 1 at predetermined intervals. Thicknesses of respective end portions of each core 2 are gradually decreased or made constant toward respective end edges. A covering thickness t1, t2 of rubber elastic body 1 is thicker at a portion between lugs on each of an inner and outer peripheral surface side than covering thickness T1, T2 of the rubber elastic body. Covering surfaces on both inner and outer peripheral surface sides are flat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Patent number: 8672423
    Abstract: A rubber track having: an endless rubber elastic body 1; a plurality of cores 2 arranged at predetermined pitches in the rubber elastic body so as to extend in a width direction of the rubber elastic body; a reinforcing layer extending in the rubber elastic body so as to surround the cores 2; and a plurality of lugs 4 formed on an outer peripheral surface of the rubber elastic body 1 at predetermined intervals and acting on a road surface, the rubber track comprising; a thick wall rubber portion, located between the lugs on the outer peripheral surface of the rubber elastic body, that covers an end portion of each of the cores and communicates with lugs located therebefore and thereafter, wherein an inclined plane of the thick wall rubber portion facing obliquely outward whose thickness gradually decreases toward a side edge side of the rubber elastic body is coplanar with an inclined plane of each of the lugs on the side edge side of the rubber elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Publication number: 20140042801
    Abstract: A crawler traveling device includes a sprocket and a rubber crawler. The sprocket is provided with a wheel portion that is mounted to a driving axle and tooth portions. The tooth portions are provided at side portions of the wheel portion, spaced apart in a sprocket circumferential direction. The rubber crawler is provided with a rubber body that is wrapped round the sprocket, a wheel portion support face that is provided at an inner periphery portion of the rubber body, and engaging recess portions. The engaging recess portions are provided, spaced apart in a crawler peripheral direction, at each of two crawler width direction side portions of the inner periphery portion to sandwich the wheel portion support face. The engaging recess portions are recessed toward the crawler outer side and the tooth portions can be inserted into and engaged with the engaging recess portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Publication number: 20120146401
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a rubber crawler having reduced vibration during running and further good soil-grasping property and soil-discharging property as well as improved durability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Publication number: 20120032502
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a rubber crawler having high traction force and excellent straight-ahead driving property and further improved durability by ensuring good soil-grasping property and soil-discharging property of the crawler body. The rubber crawler 1 has a crawler body 10 and a plurality of metal cores 30 buried in the crawler body and lugs 13 provided on an outer periphery side with they being divided into left and right sides across the central portion, the lugs divided into left and right sides being arranged in zigzag alignment with shifting of phase in a circumferential direction of the crawler body, wherein a contact area of the each lug 13 is divided into a central lug portion 20 and an outer lug portion 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: BRDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Publication number: 20110181103
    Abstract: A rubber track having: an endless rubber elastic body 1; a plurality of cores 2 arranged at predetermined pitches in the rubber elastic body so as to extend in a width direction of the rubber elastic body; a reinforcing layer extending in the rubber elastic body so as to surround the cores 2; and a plurality of lugs 4 formed on an outer peripheral surface of the rubber elastic body 1 at predetermined intervals and acting on a road surface, the rubber track comprising; a thick wall rubber portion, located between the lugs on the outer peripheral surface of the rubber elastic body, that covers an end portion of each of the cores and communicates with lugs located therebefore and thereafter, wherein an inclined plane of the thick wall rubber portion facing obliquely outward whose thickness gradually decreases toward a side edge side of the rubber elastic body is coplanar with an inclined plane of each of the lugs on the side edge side of the rubber elastic body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Publication number: 20110163596
    Abstract: There are provided: an endless rubber elastic body 1; a plurality of cores 2 arranged at predetermined pitches within the rubber elastic body 1 so as to extend in a width direction of the rubber elastic body; a steel cord reinforcing layer surrounding the cores and extending in the rubber elastic body; and a lug 4 formed on an outer peripheral surface of the rubber elastic body 1 at predetermined intervals and acting on a road surface, in which thicknesses of respective end portions of each of the cores 2 are gradually decreased toward respective end edges of each of the cores, or are made constant up to the respective end edges of each of the cores 2; at each end portion of each of the cores 2, a covering thickness t1, t2 of the rubber elastic body 1 is formed thicker at a portion between lugs on each of an inner peripheral surface side and an outer peripheral surface side than a covering thickness T1, T2 of the rubber elastic body at a point located ¼ of a length L of the core from an end edge position of t
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Publication number: 20100033010
    Abstract: A rubber track has lugs (12A, 12B) formed on its outer peripheral surface in two rows of a first row and a second row that are arranged with the same pitch in the circumferential direction, and the rubber track also has guide juts formed on its inner peripheral surface at the equal intervals. Ends (13A, 13B), located in the center part in the lateral direction of the track, of the lugs (12A, 12B) are superposed on a projection area of a guide jut (16). Because the ends (13A, 13B) are superposed on the projection area of the guide jut (16) having high rigidity, the ends bend less than other portions when the track is wrapped around a sprocket etc. This prevents concentration of strain at the ends (13A, 13B), and as a result, cracks in the ends (13A, 13B) of the lugs (12A, 12B) are prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Publication number: 20090309415
    Abstract: A rubber crawler which reduces all conventionally occurring drawbacks by forming rubber lugs to the outer peripheral surface so as to correspond to protrusion meshing positions that are susceptible to external flaws or cracking, with significantly enhanced durability of the rubber crawler. In a rubber crawler with metal cores provided at front and rear with protrusions for wheel fall-off prevention, in which the metal cores are buried at a fixed pitch along the longitudinal direction of a rubber elastic body and the wheel fall-off prevention protrusions of adjoining metal cores mesh with each other, rubber lugs are formed to the outer peripheral surface so as to correspond to the meshing portions of the wheel fall-off prevention protrusions. 1—metal core, 2,3—protrusions, 5a, 5b rubber lugs, 6—sprocket engagement hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Patent number: D588167
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Patent number: D602962
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Ryo Miyamoto, Nobuo Shimozono
  • Patent number: D615106
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Patent number: D618254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Patent number: D626973
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Patent number: D655724
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Nobuo Shimozono
  • Patent number: D676068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Shimozono, Kaoru Okada
  • Patent number: D694283
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuo Shimozono, Kaoru Okada