Patents by Inventor Shunya Harada

Shunya Harada 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: 11760130
    Abstract: A run-flat tire includes: sipes formed in blocks; a belt reinforcing layer on an outer side in a radial direction of a belt layer; and a side reinforcing rubber in sidewall portions, wherein a density of the sipes in a center block is from 0.10 cords/mm or greater to 0.30 cords/mm or smaller, the belt reinforcing layer includes a center reinforcing portion in which more center reinforcing portions are stacked at a center region than at positions other than the center region, a width Wc of the center reinforcing portion is within 0.5 Gr?Wc?2.5 Gr with respect to a thickness Gr of the side reinforcing rubber at the tire maximum width position, and an average width of the width Wc of the center reinforcing portion is from 50% or greater to 90% or smaller of a width of the center block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunya Harada
  • Publication number: 20220176747
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a plurality of first land portions are arrayed adjacent to each other in a tire circumferential direction, and a plurality of second land portions are arrayed adjacent to each other in the tire circumferential direction. Moreover, the first land portions and the second land portions are each arrayed in a staggered manner along a tire equatorial plane. Additionally, the first land portions and the second land portions each include a plurality of through grooves that extend through the first and second land portions and open to a pair of inclined main grooves and a plurality of blocks defined by the through grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Shunya HARADA
  • Publication number: 20220176748
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a plurality of first land portions are arrayed adjacent to each other in a tire circumferential direction, and a plurality of second land portions are arrayed adjacent to each other in the tire circumferential direction. Moreover, the first land portions and the second land portions are each arrayed in a staggered manner along a tire equatorial plane. Additionally, the first land portions and the second land portions each include a plurality of through grooves that extend through the land portions and open to a pair of inclined main grooves, and a plurality of blocks defined by the through grooves. The blocks include an innermost center block that is defined as a block closest to the tire equatorial plane. In addition, an edge portion of the innermost center block includes a notch portion that opens to a connection portion of the inclined main grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Shunya HARADA
  • Patent number: 11173749
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes shoulder lug grooves and narrow grooves. The shoulder lug grooves are positioned outward in a width direction with respect outermost main grooves. The narrow grooves are positioned outward in the width direction with respect to the outermost main grooves, are formed in spaces between the shoulder lug grooves that are adjacent to each other in the tire circumferential direction, and have both ends connected to the shoulder lug grooves. The narrow grooves are formed across the ground contact edges. A relationship W?(D1×0.8) is satisfied, where W indicates a distance between the ground contact surface inner end portions and the outermost main grooves in the tire width direction and D1 indicates a groove depth of the outermost main grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventor: Shunya Harada
  • Publication number: 20210162813
    Abstract: A run-flat tire includes: sipes formed in blocks; a belt reinforcing layer on an outer side in a radial direction of a belt layer; and a side reinforcing rubber in sidewall portions, wherein a density of the sipes in a center block is from 0.10 cords/mm or greater to 0.30 cords/mm or smaller, the belt reinforcing layer includes a center reinforcing portion in which more center reinforcing portions are stacked at a center region than at positions other than the center region, a width Wc of the center reinforcing portion is within 0.5 Gr?Wc?2.5 Gr with respect to a thickness Gr of the side reinforcing rubber at the tire maximum width position, and an average width of the width Wc of the center reinforcing portion is from 50% or greater to 90% or smaller of a width of the center block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventor: Shunya Harada
  • Publication number: 20210031562
    Abstract: A run-flat tire includes a reinforcing rubber layer with a roughly crescent-shaped meridian cross-section disposed in sidewall portions at both sides in a tire width direction. The tread portion is provided formed of a tread rubber that includes a cap tread rubber and an undertread rubber disposed on an inner side of the cap tread rubber in a tire radial direction and having a higher hardness than the cap tread rubber. In a meridian cross-section, a gauge of the undertread rubber on a shoulder land portion on an outer side of an outermost main groove located furthest outward in the tire width direction is thicker than a gauge of the undertread rubber of a center land portion closest to a tire equatorial plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventor: Shunya Harada
  • Publication number: 20190135044
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes shoulder lug grooves and narrow grooves. The shoulder lug grooves are positioned outward in a width direction with respect outermost main grooves. The narrow grooves are positioned outward in the width direction with respect to the outermost main grooves, are formed in spaces between the shoulder lug grooves that are adjacent to each other in the tire circumferential direction, and have both ends connected to the shoulder lug grooves. The narrow grooves are formed across the ground contact edges. A relationship W?(D1×0.8) is satisfied, where W indicates a distance between the ground contact surface inner end portions and the outermost main grooves in the tire width direction and D1 indicates a groove depth of the outermost main grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventor: Shunya Harada
  • Patent number: D939429
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Sato, Kento Ishizu, Shunya Harada
  • Patent number: D956668
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kento Ishizu, Shunya Harada