Patents Assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited
  • Patent number: 9481208
    Abstract: A tire according to an embodiment of the present invention specifically has the annular inner ring band and the annular outer ring band separated from and concentric with the inner ring band, on the outer peripheral side of the wheel, and includes an air bag between the inner ring band and the outer ring band, the air bag including the air intake/discharge mechanism that communicates with the outside. A support body for coupling the inner ring band and the outer ring band is included. A plurality of the air bags is present in a peripheral direction of the tire. Furthermore, the outer ring band, is formed of a rubber composition for a tire. An air discharge hole of the air bag communicates with an outer most layer of the outer ring band. With this configuration, the tire that has advantages of both of a non-pneumatic tire and a pneumatic tire is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited
    Inventors: Jun Matsuda, Yoshiaki Hashimura, Yasunobu Seki
  • Patent number: 9150712
    Abstract: A rubber composition for a tire tread contains styrene-butadiene rubber in a compounding amount of 100 parts by weight, silica in a compounding amount of 90 to 170 parts by weight, and an aromatic modified terpene resin in a compounding amount of 10 to 30 parts by weight. The styrene-butadiene rubber contains 40 to 100% by weight of solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR1) and 60 to 0% by weight of solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR2), the total content thereof being 100% by weight. The S-SBR1 has a styrene content of 30 to 38% by weight and a vinyl content of 60 to 80% by weight, the total content thereof being 100% by weight, a glass transition temperature of ?20 to ?5° C., and a weight average molecular weight of 1,000,000 to 1,800,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited
    Inventors: Youichi Takizawa, Naoki Kushida
  • Patent number: 8993659
    Abstract: A rubber composition contains diene-based rubber, silica, a sulfur-containing silane coupling agent, and an amine compound. The amine compound is indole, indigo, and derivatives thereof each of which is represented by a predetermined formula. The content of the silica is 20 to 120 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the diene-based rubber. The content of the sulfur-containing silane coupling agent is 3 to 15 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the silica. The content of the amine compound is 0.5 to 20 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the silica. By the use of the rubber composition with this composition, a tire having improved dispersibility of silica, excellent wet performance, and excellent rolling resistance and showing a suppressed decrease in reinforcing property can be produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited
    Inventors: Katsunori Shimizu, Satoshi Mihara
  • Patent number: 8950768
    Abstract: An air cellular cushion according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a plurality of air cells; a sensor configured to detect an air cell collapsing to a bottom; a parameter measuring unit configured to measure a parameter indicating a collapse state of the air cell collapsing to the bottom; an indicator configured to output an indication; and a control unit configured to change the indication output from the indicator based on a parameter value measured by the parameter measuring unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited
    Inventor: Hideki Nihei
  • Publication number: 20140155524
    Abstract: A rubber composition contains diene-based rubber, silica, a sulfur-containing silane coupling agent, and an amine compound. The amine compound is indole, indigo, and derivatives thereof each of which is represented by a predetermined formula. The content of the silica is 20 to 120 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the diene-based rubber. The content of the sulfur-containing silane coupling agent is 3 to 15 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the silica. The content of the amine compound is 0.5 to 20 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the silica. By the use of the rubber composition with this composition, a tire having improved dispersibility of silica, excellent wet performance, and excellent rolling resistance and showing a suppressed decrease in reinforcing property can be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Katsunori Shimizu, Satoshi Mihara
  • Publication number: 20130237653
    Abstract: A rubber composition for a tire tread contains styrene-butadiene rubber in a compounding amount of 100 parts by weight, silica in a compounding amount of 90 to 170 parts by weight, and an aromatic modified terpene resin in a compounding amount of 10 to 30 parts by weight. The styrene-butadiene rubber contains 40 to 100% by weight of solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR1) and 60 to 0% by weight of solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR2), the total content thereof being 100% by weight. The S-SBR1 has a styrene content of 30 to 38% by weight and a vinyl content of 60 to 80% by weight, the total content thereof being 100% by weight, a glass transition temperature of ?20 to ?5° C., and a weight average molecular weight of 1,000,000 to 1,800,000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Youichi Takizawa, Naoki Kushida
  • Patent number: 8476349
    Abstract: A rubber composition for a tire is blended with diene-based rubber containing 50 wt % or more of SBR, and 0.2 to 5 parts by weight of cyclic polysulfide represented by the below formula (I), 1 to 30 parts by weight of aromatic denatured terpene resin, 20 to 80 parts by weight of silica, and 40 to 100 parts by weight of carbon black relative to 100 parts by weight of the diene-based rubber. Further, a total blending amount of the silica and the carbon black is 70 to 130 parts by weight. In the formula, R represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted oxyalkylene group having 2 to 18 carbon atoms, or an alkylene group including an aromatic ring, x represents an average number of 2 to 6, and n represents an integer of 1 to 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited
    Inventor: Naoki Kushida
  • Publication number: 20070219320
    Abstract: A process for producing a rubber composition containing a nonconjugated polyene copolymer (A), a softener (B) and a diene rubber (C), comprising: a step of mixing a copolymer composition (I), said copolymer composition (I) comprising 100 parts by weight of a nonconjugated polyene copolymer (A), said nonconjugated polyene copolymer (A) being a random copolymer containing 96 to 70 mol % of the structural units derived from ?-olefin (A1) and 4 to 30 mol % of the structural units derived from nonconjugated polyene (A2) and having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of ?25 to 20° C., and 1 to 100 parts by weight of the softener (B); the diene rubber (C); and optionally further the softener (B). A tire tread using the rubber composition and a tire having the tire tread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2005
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicants: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc., Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited, The
    Inventors: Kotaro Ichino, Masao Kunizane, Yuji Ishii, Kunihide Hiraoka, Masaaki Kawasaki, Hidetatsu Murakami, Keiji Okada
  • Patent number: 5153987
    Abstract: By using a composite film comprising an additive layer and an insulating layer containing an epoxy resin and a synthetic rubber as major components, printed wiring boards having a higher circuit density and higher reliability can be produced simply and effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignees: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd., Hitachi, Condenser Co., Ltd., Yokohama Rubber Company Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Takahashi, Shin Takanezawa, Masao Kanno, Toshiro Okamura, Naoki Fukutomi, Hiroyoshi Yokoyama, Hideo Watanabe, Hajime Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Wakamatsu, Toshinobu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4082909
    Abstract: A rubber composition which comprises a vulcanizable rubber and 0.5 - 20 wt. parts of a metal salt of hydroxy benzoic acid per 100 wt. parts of the rubber. This composition exhibits excellent adhesive bonding to metallic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited
    Inventors: Yuichi Sugiyama, Hiroyuki Kaido, Tsuneo Koyama