Patents Assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11577547
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a partial tie rubber layer is disposed between a carcass layer and an innerliner layer in a limited manner across an entire region excluding end portions near a pair of bead portions; end surfaces on both sides in a tire lateral direction of the partial tie rubber layer are inclined surfaces that form an acute angle with respect to a surface of the partial tie rubber layer on the carcass layer side; and an inclination angle of the inclined surfaces with respect to the surface of the partial tie rubber layer on the carcass layer side is from 20° to 60°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaaki Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 11577836
    Abstract: Provided is a toilet exterior structure of an aircraft lavatory unit. A shroud mount in an upper end outer peripheral plate portion is provided in a lower surface of a main body plate portion. The shroud mount includes space portions extending in the width direction of the main body plate portion between partition walls provided in the main body plate portion. Where the body plate portion is placed in the upper end outer peripheral plate portion, a plurality of air communication passages communicating a space inside of the upper end outer peripheral plate portion in the width direction and a space outside of the upper end outer peripheral plate portion in the width direction are formed by the space portions. Where the main body plate portion is stepped on by a foot, the plurality of partition walls are positioned inside of a contour of the foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Taguchi
  • Patent number: 11577551
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided, the pneumatic tire including a tread portion, sidewall portions, and bead portions, and the pneumatic tire includes, in the tread portion, a center main groove extending in a tire circumferential direction and a shoulder main groove extending in the tire circumferential direction on the outside of the center main groove; a land portion between the main grooves; lug grooves extending inward in a tire lateral direction from the shoulder main groove and terminating without communicating with the center main groove; a bent portion bending toward one side in the tire circumferential direction, at a terminating end of each of the lug grooves; and a raised bottom portion included in the bent portion, creating a level difference with respect to a lug groove, and being shallower than the lug groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takashi Shibai
  • Patent number: 11566125
    Abstract: Provided is a thermoplastic elastomer composition which does not undergo viscosity increase during melt molding, gelation and molding failure, while having excellent heat resistance and durability. A thermoplastic elastomer composition for tires, which contains (A) an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer or a modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, (B) a thermoplastic resin or a thermoplastic elastomer, which has a melting point of 200° C. or higher, and (C) an acid-modified elastomer in an amount of 20% by volume or more based on the amount of all polymer components. This thermoplastic elastomer composition for tires is characterized in that if this thermoplastic elastomer composition for tires is extruded at a piston speed of 5 min/min at a temperature that is higher than the melting point of the thermoplastic resin or thermoplastic elastomer (B) by 20° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Sato, Shusaku Tomoi
  • Patent number: 11554615
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, bead cores have a wire arrangement. In a cross-sectional view in a tire meridian direction, a tangential line and a contact point are defined. The tangential line contacts an innermost layer in a radial direction and the wire cross sections innermost and outermost in a lateral direction in the wire arrangement from a rim fitting surface side. The contact point of the tangent line is on the wire cross section on the outermost side. A gauge Wh in the lateral direction from the contact point to the rim fitting surface and an outer diameter ? of the bead wire have a relationship 2.0?Wh/??15.0. A radial height H2 of a contact portion between a body portion and a turned back portion of a carcass layer has a relationship 0.80?H2/H1?3.00 to a radial height H1 of the bead cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Koda, Jun Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11554616
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire including an annular tread portion extending in a tire circumferential direction, a pair of sidewall portions disposed on both sides of the tread portion, and a pair of bead portions disposed on an inner side of the sidewall portions in a tire radial direction, a load support body is disposed extending along the tire circumferential direction on an inner side of each of the sidewall portions, and the load support body is removably mounted to an inner surface of the sidewall portion via a mechanical engagement device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 11548327
    Abstract: Provided is a bias tire including: bead cores; a bead filler disposed outward of each of the bead cores in a radial direction; and a carcass layer stretching between the bead cores, wrapping around end portions of the bead cores, the carcass layer having opposite ends turned back to be fixed, wherein in a cross section in a meridian direction, a cord on an innermost side of the carcass layer in a tire lateral direction has a curved shape projecting laterally outward at a height from 0.9 times to 1.6 times a height of a flange of a rim on which the bias tire is assembled, and in the cross section in the meridian direction, a cord on an outermost side of the carcass layer in the lateral direction has a curved shape projecting laterally outward at a height from 1.1 times to 1.6 times the height of the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Takamasa Motomitsu
  • Patent number: 11548321
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a pair of circumferential main grooves, a plurality of center lug grooves, and center blocks. The pair of circumferential main grooves are disposed on both sides of a tire equatorial plane in a tire lateral direction. The tire equatorial plane is interposed between the pair of circumferential main grooves. The pair of circumferential main grooves extend in a tire circumferential direction and oscillate in the tire lateral direction. The plurality of center lug grooves have both ends connected to the pair of circumferential main grooves. The center blocks are defined by the center lug grooves and the pair of circumferential main grooves. The center lug grooves have bent portions at two or more positions. The center blocks include center narrow grooves having both ends connected to the pair of circumferential main grooves. The center narrow groove has bent portions at two or more positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Takafumi Gohara
  • Patent number: 11548250
    Abstract: A tire is formed by disposing a cylindrical band member on a forming drum and outer circumferential sides of side portions disposed on both sides of the forming drum in a drum axial direction; expanding in diameter the forming drum and moving the side portions closer together in the drum axial direction; making step portions formed in the band member conform to side surfaces of the forming drum; moving bead members toward the step portions and compression-bonding the bead members to the band member on the side surfaces of the forming drum; and using a turn-up mechanism to wrap the bead members by turning up both end portions of the band member in the drum axial direction to form an intermediate green tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Yamamoto, Atsushi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11548323
    Abstract: Steering stability performance on dry road surfaces and steering stability performance on wet road surfaces are improved. A land portion width Wcc of a center land portion (31) and a land portion width Wco of an outer side middle land portion (32) satisfy a relationship of Wcc<Wco. In addition, a ground contact surface (10) of each of the outer side middle land portion (32) and an outer side shoulder land portion (34) is formed to protrude toward an outer side in a tire radial direction with respect to a reference profile PRco, PRso, and a protruding amount Hco of the outer side middle land portion (32) and a protruding amount Hso of the outer side shoulder land portion (34) satisfy a relationship of Hco<Hso.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryouichi Tomomatsu
  • Patent number: 11548326
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is mounted on a 5° rim. A bead core includes a bottom inclined 0°-5° in a direction in which the bottom diverges outward in the radial direction as the bottom extends from an inner side toward an outer side in the width direction. A bead includes a base, a toe, a heel, and a back surface. The heel connects to the back surface by an arc. The base includes a region between a core lower inner end position on an inner circumferential surface of the bead and being identical to a position of a bead core inner end and a core lower outer end position on an inner circumferential surface of the bead and being identical to a position of a bead core outer end in the width direction. The base has a curved line projecting toward the inner side in the radial direction in a cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Risa Tauchi
  • Patent number: 11548249
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire that is vulcanized using a bladder provided with a coating layer comprising a release agent, the noise absorber being fixed to the inner surface of the tread portion along the tire circumferential direction via the adhesive layer, and the amount of silicon in the release agent detected by X-ray fluorescence analysis is 0.1 wt. % to 10.0 wt. % at least in the fixation region for the noise absorber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Naruse, Takashi Hoshiba
  • Patent number: 11541695
    Abstract: A tread portion of a pneumatic tire includes a columnar wear measurement magnet that has magnetic flux density or magnetic field strength formed thereby decreased due to wear thereof along with wear of tread rubber of the tread portion and a columnar reference magnet provided at a position where the columnar reference magnet is not worn with the wear of the tread rubber. The wear measurement magnet and the reference magnet extend from a tread surface side toward a tire cavity region of the pneumatic tire, and an end of the reference magnet on the tread surface side is located farther from a tread surface where the tread portion contacts the ground than an end of the wear measurement magnet on the tread surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 11541694
    Abstract: A ground contact region of the tread portion of a studdable tire includes a center region located over a range corresponding to a length of 5 to 25% of a ground contact width from a tire centerline on each of both sides of the tire centerline in a tire width direction; and two shoulder regions located on both sides of the center region in the tire width direction. In each of the center region and the shoulder regions, a plurality of the stud pin installation holes are disposed along each of four or more pin arrangement lines extending in a tire circumferential direction. An average value of adjacent intervals between the pin arrangement lines in the center region is larger than an average value of adjacent intervals between the pin arrangement lines in each of the shoulder regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenta Homma
  • Patent number: 11541699
    Abstract: A tire noise reduction device includes a sound absorbing member made of a porous material; and a band member disposed between the sound absorbing member and the tire inner surface and provided for attaching the sound absorbing member to a tire inner surface, the band member including chamfered portions on both surface sides at both ends in a width direction of the band member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Naruse
  • Patent number: 11535065
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided. A rib includes a lug groove that opens at a first end portion to one of the main grooves and terminates at a second end portion within the rib, a first sipe that opens at a first end portion to the one of the main grooves the lug groove opens to and opens at a second end portion to the lug groove, and a second sipe that opens at a first end portion to another main groove located on the opposite side of the one of the main grooves the lug groove opens to and opens at a second end portion to the lug groove; and the first sipe and the second sipe each include a chamfered portion on the edge on the leading side or the edge on the trailing side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiraku Kouda, Takayuki Shiraishi, Tatsuro Shinzawa, Takanori Uemura
  • Patent number: 11535063
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. At least three blocks of a plurality of blocks formed on a tread portion, which include an outermost block positioned on an outermost side in a tire lateral direction and are adjacent to each other in the tire lateral direction, and at least two longitudinal grooves positioned between the at least three blocks are arranged on a platform, which is raised from a groove bottom of a lateral groove, has a flat top surface, and has a shape protruding toward both sides in a tire circumferential direction with respect to the at least three blocks. On a groove bottom of a longitudinal groove adjacent to the outermost block, a raised bottom portion raised from the groove bottom of the longitudinal groove is provided. The raised bottom portion connects the outermost block and the block adjacent to the outermost block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yoshida
  • Patent number: D974280
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kotaro Iwabuchi, Hironori Wada
  • Patent number: D974999
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Sato, Kotaro Iwabuchi
  • Patent number: D975000
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shun Sato, Kotaro Iwabuchi