Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11771967
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide a golf club grip having excellent anti-slipping performance, and feeling when the grip is wet, and further to provide a golf club grip having excellent durability and an improved head speed. [Solution] The golf club grip comprises a cylindrical portion for inserting a shaft, wherein the golf club grip has a narrow groove region comprising narrow grooves in an occupation ratio of 35% or more per 25 mm2 at at least a part of a surface of the cylindrical portion, and the narrow groove has a width (w) of from 0.1 mm to 0.7 mm and a depth (h) of from 0.1 mm to 1.0 mm. In addition, an interval (d) between the narrow grooves are preferably 1.5 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sho Goji, Kazuyoshi Shiga
  • Patent number: 11772422
    Abstract: The present disclosure aims to provide a tire rubber composition and a tire which have an excellent ability to reduce deterioration of fuel economy and abrasion resistance over time. The present disclosure relates to a tire rubber composition which contains one or more rubber components having a combined content of styrene-butadiene rubber and polybutadiene of 90% by mass or more, one or more fillers, and one or more vulcanizing agents, the rubber composition as a whole having a vinyl content of 53 mol % or higher based on 100 mol % of the combined amount of the butadiene-based structural units in the butadiene portion of the styrene-butadiene rubber and the polybutadiene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoji Matsui
  • Patent number: 11772429
    Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion including a pair of shoulder main grooves, a crown region defined between the pair of the shoulder main grooves, and a pair of shoulder regions arranged on both outer sides of the pair of the shoulder main grooves. A land ratio of the crown region is 50% or more and 70% or less. A land ratio of the shoulder regions is 50% or more and 70% or less. The land ratio of the crown region is larger than the land ratio of the shoulder regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichi Wada
  • Patent number: 11771833
    Abstract: Laminated gasket free from liquid drug leakage. Gasket (13) to be used for a medical syringe includes main body (14) made of an elastic material and film (15) on a surface of main body (14). Gasket (13) has a circumferential surface portion (17) that can contact an inner peripheral surface of syringe barrel (11) of the syringe, and has an annular groove (22) formed circumferentially in a surface portion of the film present in the circumferential surface portion thereof. Annular groove (22) has outer edge portions (24) provided along opposite edges (23) thereof as projecting from an unprocessed surface portion of the film. Annular groove (22) has groove formation start points and end points that are connected to each other in a groove connection region. Outer edge portions (24) along the opposite edges of the annular groove have a maximum-to-minimum height difference of ?5 ?m in the groove connection region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaneko, Hiroaki Nakano
  • Patent number: 11771959
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having improved ball speed or aerodynamic performance on a rainy day or the like by controlling the formulation of the paint film. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a golf ball body and a paint film covering the golf ball body, wherein a paint film surface of the golf ball has a water contact angle A1 of 70° or more and a water sliding angle B1 of less than 50°. The present invention also provides a golf ball comprising a golf ball body and a paint film covering the golf ball body, wherein when a sheet consisting of a slab formed from a composition constituting a golf ball body surface and a coating film formed by applying a paint constituting the paint film on the slab is prepared, a coating film surface of the sheet has a water contact angle A2 of 90° or more and a water sliding angle B2 of less than 52°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Kamino, Hidetaka Inoue, Kuniyasu Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 11772426
    Abstract: A heavy-duty tire comprises a tread reinforcing belt comprising first to fourth belt plies each composed of belt cords inclined with respect to the tire equatorial plane. The first radial distance L1 between the belt cords of the third belt ply and the belt cords of the fourth belt ply is not more than the second radial distance L2 between the belt cords of the second belt ply and the belt cords of the third belt ply. The cord count E4 of the fourth belt ply is smaller than the cord count E3 of the third belt ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Masayuki Yoshino
  • Publication number: 20230302852
    Abstract: A motorcycle tire includes a tread portion, sidewall portions, bead portions each with a bead core therein, a carcass, and a tread reinforcing layer arranged radially outwardly of the carcass and includes a belt layer and a band layer. The belt layer includes an inner belt ply and an outer belt ply. The band layer includes a band ply arranged between the inner and outer belt plies. The inner belt ply includes belt cords oriented at an angle greater than 5 degrees to the tire circumferential direction and a first development width. The outer belt ply includes belt cords oriented at an angle greater than 5 degrees to the tire circumferential direction and a second development width. The band ply includes band cords oriented at an angle not more than 5 degrees to the tire circumferential direction. The second development width is greater than the first development width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mamoru NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230302850
    Abstract: A contour CL of a carcass 12 includes a curved portion 44 and an inversely curved portion 46. A boundary between the curved portion 44 and the inversely curved portion 46 is an inflection point PV. A part or an entirety of the curved portion 44 is represented by a first arc. A part or an entirety of the inversely curved portion 46 is represented by a second arc. The first arc and the second arc are tangent to each other at the inflection point PV. A ratio (X/W) of a distance X in an axial direction to a distance W in the axial direction is not less than 70% and not greater than 85%. A ratio (Y/H) of a distance Y in a radial direction to a distance H in the radial direction is not less than 15% and not greater than 22%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi ITO, Tetsuya KITANO
  • Publication number: 20230306378
    Abstract: A tire management system (100) includes: a first communication apparatus (2) that acquires state information regarding a state of a tire (11) that is transmitted from an air pressure detection device (12) provided in a vehicle (1) when the vehicle (1) is located in a communication range of a predetermined wireless communication standard; and a management server (4) including a storage processing portion (70) that stores, into a storage portion (43), the state information acquired by the first communication apparatus (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki TERAMOTO, Kazuharu TANIMURA, Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Kenji YONEDA, Yukinori HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230302851
    Abstract: Provided is a motorcycle tire, that provides excellent steering stability while using steel cords as a belt layer material, which comprises a carcass extending from a tread portion to a bead core of a bead portion via a sidewall portion, and a belt layer arranged outside the carcass and inside the tread portion in the tire radial direction, wherein the belt layer is a steel belt layer having steel cords; the steel cord is a steel cord having an m×n configuration in which n strands, formed by twisting m steel filaments, are twisted together in the same direction as the steel filaments, and the m is 1 or more and 3 or less and n is 2 or more and 6 or less; the diameter of the steel filament is 0.15 mm or more and 0.25 mm or less; the rubber composition forming the tread portion is a rubber composition having a complex elastic modulus E* (MPa) of 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Manabu INOUE
  • Publication number: 20230304808
    Abstract: A tire management system (100) includes: an acquisition processing portion (62) that acquires state information regarding a state of a pneumatic tire (11) attached to a vehicle (1); a detection processing portion (63) that detects an abnormality of the pneumatic tire (11) based on the state information acquired by the acquisition processing portion (62); and a first output processing portion (64) that, when the detection processing portion (63) has detected the abnormality, outputs first route information to a display portion of a vehicle-mounted communication apparatus (13) of the vehicle (1), wherein the first route information includes a first route that is a route to, among a plurality of predetermined stop spots, a specific stop spot that has a stop space corresponding to a size of the vehicle (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki TERAMOTO, Kazuharu TANIMURA, Yukinori HASHIMOTO, Takahiro NISHIMOTO, Kenji YONEDA
  • Patent number: 11766898
    Abstract: A lateral groove provided in a tread portion has: an opening formed in a tread surface; a minimum portion having the smallest groove width, positioned radially inside the opening; and a maximum portion having the largest groove width, positioned radially inside the minimum portion. The width of the opening increases toward the outside in the tire axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Koichi Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11766896
    Abstract: A pneumatic tyre includes a tread portion including a shoulder land portion having a tread edge. The shoulder land portion is provided with shoulder lateral grooves extending inwardly in a tyre axial direction from the tread edge so as to define shoulder block elements therebetween, and at least one protrusion protruding from an outer surface in the tyre axial direction of the respective shoulder land portion. The protrusion includes first portions provided on the respective shoulder block elements and extending in a tyre radial direction, and a second portion located inwardly in the tyre radial direction of one of the shoulder lateral grooves and extending in a tyre circumferential direction to connect inner portions of at least two first portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Takano
  • Publication number: 20230294458
    Abstract: A motorcycle tire has a tread portion. The tread portion has a ground contact surface curved in an arc shape convex outward in a tire radial direction. The ground contact surface includes a central region and a first outer region. The ground contact surface has oblique grooves each including a portion inclined with respect to a tire circumferential direction. Each of the oblique grooves extends across the central region and the first outer region. Each of the oblique grooves includes a vertical groove portion extending at an angle ? of 20 degrees or less with respect to the tire circumferential direction. A minimum distance in a tire axial direction along the ground contact surface between the vertical groove portion and an outer edge of the central region is 30% or less of a maximum width in the tire axial direction of the central region along the ground contact surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryosuke MORIMURA
  • Publication number: 20230293949
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a golf ball having an increased spin rate when being hit with an 8-iron while suppressing rise in a spin rate when being hit with a driver. The present disclosure provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core having an inner core and an outer core, and a cover positioned outside the spherical core, wherein A×a is 12,200 or less and B×b is 20,400 or more, where “a” represents an average hardness (Shore C) of a hardness (H2.5) at a point of 2.5 mm from a center of the spherical core and a hardness (H5) at a point of 5 mm from the center of the spherical core, “b” represents an average hardness (Shore C) of a hardness (H7.5) at a point of 7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sho GOJI, Kazuyoshi SHIGA
  • Publication number: 20230294455
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire with which any change in steering stability between low-speed running and high-speed running is sufficiently minimized, and durability is also sufficiently improved. This pneumatic tire has a belt layer radially inward of the tread portion, wherein the ratio (tan ?/E*) of the loss tangent (tan ?) to the complex elastic modulus E*(MPa) of the rubber composition constituting the belt layer, as measured under the conditions of 70° C., frequency 10 Hz, initial distortion 5%, and dynamic distortion rate 1%, is 0.002 to 0.017 (inclusive), and the (formula 1) and (formula 2) are satisfied, where Wt (mm) is the cross-sectional width of the tire, Dt (mm) is the outside diameter, and the virtual volume V (mm3) is the volume of the space occupied by the tire, when the tire is installed on a standardized rim and the internal pressure is 250 kPa. 1700?(Dt2×?/4)/Wt?2827.4??(formula 1) [(V+1.5×107)/Wt]?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji HAMAMURA, Hiroki KAWAI, Subaru TOYA
  • Publication number: 20230294460
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided which has sufficiently reduced rolling resistance during high-speed running and which has excellent durability. The pneumatic tire has a bead portion, carcass and tread, wherein: a bead-reinforcing layer that reinforces the bead portion from outside of the carcass is provided outside of the carcass in the tire axis direction; and the pneumatic tire satisfies (formula 1) and (formula 2) below, where Wt (mm) is the cross-sectional width of the tire when the tire installed on a standardized rim and the internal pressure is 250 kPa, Dt (mm) is the outer diameter, and the virtual volume V (mm3) is the volume of the space occupied by the tire. 1600?(Dt2×?/4)/Wt?2827.4??(formula 1) [(V+1.5×107)/Wt]?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji HAMAMURA, Hiroki KAWAI, Subaru TOYA
  • Patent number: 11759687
    Abstract: A method of selecting a golf club head for a specific user, includes: (a) receiving first data comprising impact location of each of a plurality of golf swings taken by the user using a test golf club; (b) generating an impact probability map specific to the user; (c) providing second data comprising correlations between striking face location and coefficient of restitution (COR) for each of a plurality of golf clubs; (d) calculating a user-specific expected COR value for each of the plurality of golf clubs based on the first data, the impact probability map, and the second data for each of the plurality of golf clubs; and (e) outputting and displaying golf club preference information based on the calculated user-specific expected COR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Jacob Lambeth, Jeff D. Brunski
  • Patent number: 11760131
    Abstract: A tire pair includes a front tire 2 and a rear tire 52. The front tire 2 includes a pair of beads 18, a carcass 10 extending on and between a first bead 18 and a second bead 18, a tread 4 located outward of the carcass 10 in a radial direction, and a band 14 located between the tread 4 and the carcass 10 in the radial direction. The carcass 10 includes a large number of carcass cords 30 aligned with each other and each tilted relative to an equator plane. The band 14 includes a band cord 34 extending substantially in a circumferential direction. A ratio (Jf/Jr) of a bending stiffness Jf of the band cord 34 of the front tire 2 to a bending stiffness Jr of a band cord 84 of the rear tire 52 is not less than 0.0 and less than 0.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kyosuke Kono
  • Patent number: 11759679
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball travelling a great flight distance on driver shots on a rainy day or the like and having excellent spin performance on approach shots. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a golf ball body and a paint film covering the golf ball body and composed of at least one layer, wherein an outermost layer of the paint film is formed from a paint containing a curable silicone resin, a curing catalyst, and a reactive silicone oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuya Kamino, Hidetaka Inoue, Kuniyasu Horiuchi, Kuniyuki Nishikawa