Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
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Publication number: 20240100881Abstract: It is possible to maintain high-speed durability while having a function of eliminating static electricity of a vehicle. An airless tire 1 includes a tread portion 2, an inner circumferential portion 3 which comes into contact with a wheel 5 having conductivity, and a spoke portion 4 which connects the tread portion 2 and the inner circumferential portion 3. The tread portion 2 includes a first portion 2A having conductivity, and a second portion 2B in contact with the first portion 2A. The second portion 2B, the spoke portion 4, and the inner circumferential portion 3 are formed from a resin or elastomer. The resin or elastomer contains an antistatic agent. The antistatic agent is a polymer-based antistatic agent or surfactant-based antistatic agent. The antistatic agent is blended in an amount of 0.5 to 20% by mass per 100% by mass of a base component of the resin or elastomer.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Ai TAKEDA
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Publication number: 20240100890Abstract: A pneumatic tire of the present disclosure includes a tread portion, sidewall portions, bead portions, a carcass, and an inner liner layer. The carcass includes a plurality of carcass cords and a topping rubber layer. The inner liner layer includes a butyl rubber layer and an adhesive rubber layer. An electronic module is disposed between the carcass and the adhesive rubber layer. The electronic module includes an electronic component and a cover rubber. The cover rubber includes an inner layer and an outer layer. The electronic component is covered between the inner layer and the outer layer of the cover rubber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi OKAGAWA, Yohei MAEDA, Ryuhei KIMOTO
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Publication number: 20240100888Abstract: A pneumatic tire can include a pair of sidewall portions, where an outer surface of the sidewall portion can include a marking portion. The marking portion can include a first region forming a mark, a second region that is a background portion of the mark, and a fringing portion that demarcates the first region from the second region and fringes the contour of the mark. The first region can be formed as a smooth surface. The second region can be a projection-recess region where a plurality of micro projections are arranged. The fringing portion can be a rib projecting from the first region.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro YAMADA, Yuta SAKAKIBARA, Naoki ISHIDA, Yuya MEGURO
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Publication number: 20240100887Abstract: A heavy duty tire can have a tread portion that includes a plurality of circumferential grooves that zigzag, a plurality of lateral grooves connecting between zigzag vertexes of the circumferential grooves, and a plurality of hexagonal blocks formed by the circumferential grooves and the lateral grooves. A groove depth of the circumferential groove can be 21 mm or more. Each of the hexagonal blocks can include a three-dimensional sipe extending across the hexagonal block. The lateral groove can include a raised portion formed by raising a groove bottom of the lateral groove to connect between the hexagonal blocks adjacent to each other in the tire circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Takashi SUGIURA
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Publication number: 20240100886Abstract: A tire 2 includes a tread 4. The tread 4 includes a plurality of blocks 18. The plurality of blocks 18 include a plurality of center blocks 28 located on an equator plane. The plurality of center blocks 28 include a main center block 28m having, in a land surface 20 thereof, a center of gravity CG of the land surface 20. At the center of gravity CG of the land surface 20 of the main center block 28m, an axial length a of the main center block 28m is not less than twice a circumferential length b thereof. The main center block 28m has a hardness of not greater than 70. The main center block 28m has a 300% modulus of not less than 8.5 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Shuji KOBORI
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Patent number: 11938758Abstract: A tire comprises a tread portion axially divided by circumferential grooves into a first middle land portion, a crown land portion and a second middle land portion. Each land portion has a profile protruding radially outwardly from a reference tread profile. The maximum protrusion amount of the second middle land portion's profile is larger than the maximum protrusion amount of the crown land portion's profile which is larger than the maximum protrusion amount of the first middle land portion's profile.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Ken Tanida
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Patent number: 11931630Abstract: A head includes a face portion, a sole portion, and an internal weight portion provided on an inner surface of the sole portion and located apart from the face portion. The internal weight portion includes a base portion, and a protruding portion protruding from the base portion toward a face side and located apart from the inner surface of the sole portion. The protruding portion is positioned on the face side with respect to the head center of gravity. A thickness of a toe-side part of the protruding portion and/or a thickness of a heel-side part of the protruding portion is greater than a thickness of a middle part of the protruding portion. Alternatively, a middle part of the protruding portion in a toe-heel direction is absent. The internal weight portion may be formed integrally with the sole portion, or may be a different member from the sole portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Naruhiro Mizutani, Daisuke Kohno, Akio Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11932058Abstract: A tire includes a tread portion 2. At least one middle lateral groove 10 includes first and second middle tie bars 16 and 17. First and second middle sipes 21 and 22 are provided on a ground-contact surface 15s of at least one middle block 15. The first middle sipe 21 includes a termination end 21a located on an inner side in a tire axial direction with respect to the first middle tie bar 16. The second middle sipe 22 includes a termination end 22a located on an outer side in the tire axial direction with respect to the second middle tie bar 17 and on the inner side in the tire axial direction with respect to the termination end 21a of the first middle sipe 21. On the ground-contact surface 15s of the middle block 15, no groove and no sipe are provided in a first region 23.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Naoki Iwamoto
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Publication number: 20240082660Abstract: A golf club head includes a striking face with a plurality of scorelines. A first virtual vertical plane is perpendicular to the striking face and passes through a toe-wardmost extent of the scorelines, and a second virtual vertical plane is parallel to the first virtual vertical plane and passes through a heel-wardmost extent of the scorelines. A central region bounded by the first virtual vertical plane, the second virtual vertical plane, and a striking face periphery has a first average surface roughness Ra1 of between about 40 ?in and about 180 ?in. And a majority of a toe region bounded by the first vertical plane and the striking face periphery is textured to have a second average surface roughness Ra2 no less than 1.5 times Ra1.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Patrick RIPP, Jeff D. Brunski
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Publication number: 20240082667Abstract: A putter-type golf club head that, when oriented in a reference position, includes a striking wall extending in the heel to toe direction and defines a substantially planar striking face for hitting a golf ball. A central elongate member is in communication with, and extends rearward from, the striking wall. An upper surface of the central elongate member includes a plurality of separate alignment elements. At least one of the plurality of alignment elements has an edge that extends substantially parallel to the striking face. The length of the parallel edge is substantially equivalent to the diameter of a golf ball.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Nick TRAHAN, Thomas CARLSON, Christopher R. COOPER, Adam SHELDON
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Patent number: 11926181Abstract: A tire 2 includes a reinforcing layer 20 located between a tread 4 and a carcass 12. The reinforcing layer 20 includes a band 38 and a belt 40. The band 38 includes a full band 42 and a pair of edge bands 44. The full band 42 has an end 42e located axially outward of a shoulder circumferential groove 28s. The belt 40 includes a third belt ply 46C located radially inward of the pair of edge bands 44. A distance Y between each edge band 44 and the full band 42 or the third belt ply 46C is not less than 2.2 mm and not greater than 4.0 mm. A ratio of a tire thickness E at an end PE of a tread surface 22 to a tire thickness D at an equator plane is not less than 1.2 and not greater than 2.0.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Naofumi Kitani
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Patent number: 11925840Abstract: A golf club head includes a face portion including a striking face for hitting a ball, a back face opposite the striking face, and a head outer peripheral surface extending between the striking face and the back face. The back face includes a cavity recessed on a striking face side and a frame portion extending along the head outer peripheral surface so as to surround the cavity. The frame portion is provided with at least one recess that extends along the striking face and opens to the head outer peripheral surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Yuki Shimahara
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Publication number: 20240075353Abstract: An iron golf club head includes a face portion having a striking face with a face center thereon, a virtual vertical plane passing through the face center and perpendicular to the striking face, and a sole portion extending backward from the face portion to form a bottom surface of the head. The sole portion includes a toe side slit extending forward from a sole rear edge on the toe side of the virtual vertical plane, a heel side slit extending forward from the sole rear edge on the heel side of the virtual vertical plane, a sole center portion demarcated between the toe side slit and the heel side slit, a sole toe portion detached from the sole center portion on the toe side by the toe side slit, and a sole heel portion detached from the sole center portion on the heel side by the heel side slit.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Kiyofumi MATSUNAGA
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Publication number: 20240075355Abstract: An iron golf club head includes a head body having a sole portion, a weight member disposed in the sole portion, and a fixing member for fixing the weight member to the head body. The head body is provided with a first hole and a second hole. The first hole opens at a bottom surface of the sole portion. The weight member is in the first hole by insertion from below the head in a first direction. The second hole opens at a surface of the head body. The fixing member is inserted into the weight member from the second hole in a second direction different from the first direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventor: Kiyofumi MATSUNAGA
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Patent number: 11918866Abstract: A method comprising, in a striking face of a golf club head, the striking face being formed of a first material having a first hardness, creating a plurality of initial grooves, the initial grooves having a first cross-sectional area (A1) and a first pitch (P1) such that A1/P1>0.0030 in. The method continues with modifying the initial grooves at least by positioning a second material in each of the plurality of initial grooves, the second material having a second hardness that is less than the first hardness, such that the first material and the second material form a plurality of final grooves each having a second cross-sectional area (A2) and a second pitch (P2) such that A2/P2<0.0030 in.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Patrick Ripp, Dan S. Nivanh, Mika Becktor, Jesse D. Sukman
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Publication number: 20240066926Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a side portion and a belt layer, monofilament cords are used as reinforcing cords in the belt layer, and in a tire-radial-direction cross-section of the belt layer, an arrangement number e of monofilament cords per 5 cm in a tire width direction (cords/5 cm) and a tire cross-sectional width Wt (mm) when the tire is installed to a standardized rim and an inner pressure is set to 250 kPa satisfies the following (formula 1) and (formula 2): e/(139.5?0.3Wt)>1 ??(formula 1) e/(191.5?0.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Momoka MISAKI, Miao DONG, Hiroki KAWAI
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Publication number: 20240066922Abstract: A tire has an outer diameter smaller than a value obtained by subtracting 4 mm from an outer diameter maximum value of new product dimensions defined by a JATMA standard or an ETRTO standard, and has a total width smaller than a value obtained by subtracting 5 mm from a maximum total width of the new product dimensions. The tire includes an outer surface including a tread surface and a pair of side surfaces. The tread surface includes an equator. Each of the side surfaces includes a maximum width position. In a normal state, a ratio of a length of the shoulder line segment to a length of the reference line segment is 85.9% or more and 89.3% or less, and a ratio of the radius of the center arc to the radius of the middle arc is 1.85 or more and 2.00 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki NAKAYAMA, Miyu OZAWA, Ryuta KITORA, Kohei HAYAMA, Shigeki NISHIJIMA, Masahiro NAGASE
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Patent number: 11912068Abstract: A tyre comprising a tread portion comprising first and second tread edges, a crown groove extending continuously in a tyre circumferential direction in a crown portion of the tyre, a first land portion between the first tread edge and the crown groove, and a second land portion extending from the crown groove towards the second tread edge. The first land portion is provided with first lateral grooves connected to the crown groove and extending from the crown groove in the direction to the first tread edge, and the second land portion is provided with second lateral grooves connected to the crown groove and extending from the crown groove in the direction to the second tread edge. The first land portion is divided into first blocks by the crown groove and the first lateral grooves, and the second land portion is divided into second blocks by the crown groove and the second lateral grooves.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Oliver Knispel, Daniel Kunkel, Jaap Leendertse
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Patent number: D1016198Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Darius Cyrulik
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Patent number: D1016732Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Sascha Amend, Oliver Knispel, Jaap Leendertse