Patents Assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11453253
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, first and second sound absorbing members are adhered to an inner surface of a tread, have a total volume ranging from 10% to 40% of a capacity of a tire cavity, and are separated from each other by 60% of the width of a center land. The first sound absorbing member is on one side in a lateral direction with respect to a position of 40% of a width of the center land from one end of the center land on one side in the lateral direction to the other side in the lateral direction. The second sound absorbing member is on the other side in the lateral direction with respect to a position of 40% of the width of the center land from the other end of the center land in the lateral direction to the one side in the lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Tatsuro Shinzawa
  • Patent number: 11453255
    Abstract: The pneumatic tire includes: a belt layer, a belt reinforcing layer, a tread portion, sidewall portions, a rim cushion rubber, and an electrically conductive rubber disposed in the rim cushion rubber and includes a first end in contact with a rim and exposed on an outer surface of the rim cushion rubber and a second end in contact with a tire component adjacent to the rim cushion rubber. The electrical resistance value of the electrically conductive rubber and a portion of the tread portion is 1×106 ?·cm or less. The electrical resistance value of the tire component, a coating rubber of the belt layer, and a coating rubber of the belt reinforcing layer is from 1×106 ?·cm to 1×108 ?·cm. The electrical resistance value of the rim cushion rubber and a side rubber of the sidewall portions is 1×108 ?·cm or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Isamu Kishizoe
  • Patent number: 11446965
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a sipe includes an edge on a leading side and an edge on a trailing side; the edge on the leading side and the edge on the trailing side each include a chamfered portion shorter than a sipe length of the sipe; a non-chamfered region in which other chamfered portions are not present is provided at portions facing the chamfered portions of the sipe; and for all chamfered portions, including at least the chamfered portions of the sipe, formed on grooves other than main grooves, a total projected area AIN of the chamfered portions located on a vehicle mounting inner side and a total projected area AOUT of the chamfered portions located on a vehicle mounting outer side satisfy a relationship AIN>AOUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Uemura, Takayuki Shiraishi, Hiraku Kouda, Tatsuro Shinzawa
  • Patent number: 11446888
    Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for attaching a sound absorbing member to an inner face of a tire. In a state that an adhesive is interposed between a first face of a sound absorbing member and an inner face of the tire, the sound absorbing member is placed, and an expandable and contractible bag placed inside the tire is expanded, and the expanded bag presses a second face of the sound absorbing member to bond the first face to the inner face of the tire with the adhesive therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Yukihisa Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11440352
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire tread pattern includes a center main groove extending in a circumferential direction, first and second inclined lug grooves located on respective first and second sides in a lateral direction and extending from the center main groove toward the respective first and second sides in the lateral direction with respect to the circumferential direction, and inner branched lug grooves each branched from a middle of a corresponding one of the first and second inclined lug grooves, inclined identically to an inclination direction of the first and second inclined lug grooves, and connected to the center main groove. The first and second inclined lug grooves include a center portion extending outward from the center main groove in the lateral direction, an outer portion extending inward from a shoulder side in the lateral direction, and a bent portion at which the center and outer portions are bent and connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuta Uchida
  • Patent number: 11440354
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes: sidewall portions positioned on both sides in a tire lateral direction; bead portions positioned toward the inside of the respective sidewall portions in a tire radial direction; a plurality of protectors extending in a tire circumferential direction and projecting from a surface of the sidewall portion in the sidewall portion of at least one of the sidewall portions, provided within a range of from 30% to 70% of a tire cross-sectional height from an inner end of the bead portions in the tire radial direction toward an outer side in the tire radial direction; and a plurality of helical reinforcing members each formed in a helical shape and disposed inside the plurality of protectors, the helical reinforcing members each having a central axis of the helical shape, the central axis extending in the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Masashi Tamura
  • Patent number: 11434863
    Abstract: A wave receiving plate is pivotably supported by a support device in the wave force generation system and includes a flexible plate in at least a part of the wave receiving plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., The University of Tokyo
    Inventors: Gang Hou, Shigehiko Amano, Masato Tadokoro, Koji Motoyama, Koki Maruyama, Chang-Kyu Rheem, Hidetaka Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11433583
    Abstract: Two molded articles having a cylindrical two-piece split shape is formed by forming two primary cavities in a desired shape with molds assembled together and injecting a molten primary resin into the two primary cavities. An assist material is injected into a secondary cavity into which a molten secondary resin is injected in a state where the two molded articles are located opposed to each other via a space therebetween and internally fitted into one secondary cavity formed by the molds that are assembled together by shifting the positions. A flange portion having any desired shape is disposed on an outer circumferential surface of a resin pipe in a two-layer structure in which an inner surface layer formed of the cured secondary resin is integrated with an outer surface layer formed of the two molded articles. Thus, a portion having any desired shape is easily manufactured on the resin pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuaki Kuribayashi, Susumu Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 11434361
    Abstract: In an epoxy resin composition, per 100 parts by mass of an epoxy resin component containing from 60 to 85 parts by mass of N,N,N?,N?-tetraglycidyldiaminodiphenylmethane resin (A) having a viscosity at 50° C. of 6000 mPa·s or less and from 15 to 40 parts by mass of a liquid bisphenol A epoxy resin (B) having a viscosity at 25° C. of 20000 mPa·s or less, from 8 to 15 parts by mass of a thermoplastic resin (C), from 2 to 10 parts by mass of elastomer microparticles (D) having an average particle diameter of 1000 nm or less, and from 0.5 to 2.5 parts by mass of silica microparticles (E) having an average particle diameter of 1000 nm or less are blended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Iwata, Tomohiro Ito
  • Patent number: 11433713
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a sipe includes an edge on a leading side and an edge on a trailing side; the edge and the edge each include a chamfered portion shorter than a sipe length of the sipe; a non-chamfered region in which other chamfered portions are not present is provided at portions facing the chamfered portions of the sipe; and for all chamfered portions, including at least the chamfered portions of the sipe, formed on grooves other than main grooves, with a ground contact width being equally divided into three in the tire lateral direction, a total volume SCE of chamfered portions provided in a center region centrally located in the tire lateral direction and each of total volumes SSH of chamfered portions provided in shoulder regions located on either side of the center region satisfy a relationship SCE<SSH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiraku Kouda, Takayuki Shiraishi, Tatsuro Shinzawa, Takanori Uemura
  • Patent number: 11433623
    Abstract: Provided are a rubber sheet member joining device and method. At least one opposing surface of a pair of gripping parts is provided with a contact member having a contact surface projecting toward an other opposing surface of the pair of gripping parts; the pair of gripping parts grip ranges in proximity to end surfaces in a state in which end surfaces project from the one opposing surface toward the other opposing surface; the total of end surface projection amounts of the end surfaces from the opposing surfaces is set to be a predetermined length larger than a separation distance between the opposing surfaces when the contact member is sandwiched between the opposing surfaces; and by bringing the contact member into a state of being sandwiched between the opposing surfaces, the movement of the gripping parts in proximity to each other is stopped and the end surfaces are joined together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru Nishio
  • Patent number: 11433715
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a plurality of protrusion portions extending along a tire side surface of a tire side portion in a direction that intersects a tire circumferential direction and a tire radial direction; the plurality of protrusion portions each including an intermediate portion in an extension direction that includes a highest position of projection height from the tire side surface, and an end portion on either side of the intermediate portion in the extension direction that includes a lowest position of projection height from the tire side surface. The highest position of projection height of the intermediate portion is in a range of 20% of a tire cross-sectional height from a tire maximum width position to an inner side and an outer side in the tire radial direction, and a ratio of a total width SW and an outer diameter OD satisfies a relationship of SW/OD?0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Kodama
  • Patent number: 11433710
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided with a sipe including an edge on a leading side and an edge on a trailing side. The edge on the leading side and the edge on the trailing side each include a chamfered portion shorter than a sipe length of the sipe. A non-chamfered region in which other chamfered portions are not present is provided at portions facing the chamfered portions of the sipe. For all chamfered portions, including at least the chamfered portions of the sipe, formed on grooves other than main grooves, a total volume SIN of the chamfered portions located on a vehicle mounting inner side and a total volume SOUT of the chamfered portions located on a vehicle mounting outer side satisfy a relationship SIN>SOUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shiraishi, Hiraku Kouda, Tatsuro Shinzawa, Takanori Uemura
  • Patent number: 11433712
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. A sipe is formed, on each of a leading side edge and a trailing side edge, with a chamfered portion shorter than a sipe length of a sipe, a non-chamfered region in which no other chamfered portion is present is provided in a part facing each of the chamfered portions, at least one end of the sipe communicates with the auxiliary groove, one end of the chamfered portion adjacent to the auxiliary groove in the rib communicates with the auxiliary groove, a maximum depth×(mm) of the sipe and a maximum depth y (mm) of the chamfered portion satisfy a relationship x×0.1?y?x×0.3+1.0, and a sipe width W of the sipe is constant in a range from an end positioned in the radial direction inside the chamfered portion to a groove bottom of the sipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Takanori Uemura, Takayuki Shiraishi, Hiraku Kouda, Tatsuro Shinzawa
  • Patent number: 11427035
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided with four or more circumferential main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and five or more land portions defined by the circumferential main grooves. Additionally, second land portions are each provided with first through lug grooves and second through lug grooves that extend through the second land portion in a tire lateral direction and are adjacently arranged in the tire circumferential direction. Crossing angles of the first through lug grooves and the second through lug grooves with respect to the outermost circumferential main grooves are mutually different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasutaka Akashi
  • Patent number: 11427399
    Abstract: An aircraft water tank is provided. With an aircraft water tank being suspended by a fuselage via bushes, a load applied to each of the bushes is transferred from the bush and an attachment hole to a metal plate. The load transferred to metal plate is transferred to a total of four prepreg projection portions at a section of a thick wall portion of the metal plate and transferred to a total of eight prepreg projection portions at a section of a thin wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Taguchi, Hiroshi Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 11427038
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire of the present technology is a pneumatic tire provided with a tread portion, side wall portions and bead portions, a plurality of circumferential grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction being provided in the tread portion, and a belt-shaped sound-absorbing member being bonded via an adhesive layer to the tire inner surface in a region corresponding to the tread portion along the tire circumferential direction, wherein the width W of the sound-absorbing member is from 70% to 95% of the tire ground contact width TCW, and the total width of the circumferential grooves included in the region in the tire width direction in which the sound-absorbing member is disposed is from 25% to 40% of the width W of the sound-absorbing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Yousuke Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 11420402
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tire puncture sealing agent having excellent storage performance, and a tire puncture repair kit. The tire puncture sealing agent of the present invention contains: a rubber latex and/or a resin emulsion; a predetermined glycol ether; and a non-ionic surfactant having an HLB value from 15 to 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyohito Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11420481
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a decorative portion on a tire side portion that is an outer surface of a sidewall portion. The decorative portion includes a plurality of ridges that extend along the tire side portion and are arranged side by side in the tire circumferential direction. The plurality of ridges include a common form of an inclination angle in the tire circumferential direction with respect to the tire radial direction and an interval between a pair of the plurality of ridges adjacent. The plurality of ridges constitute a ridge group. Three or more ridge groups are provided and the plurality of ridges of the different ridge groups are arranged intersecting one another. Accordingly, the pneumatic tire can reduce poor appearance of the sidewall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Kuwahara, Masataka Kubota
  • Patent number: D962843
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kotaro Matsushita