Patents Assigned to Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 4469157
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire is disclosed which comprises a tread, a carcass cord layer and at least two belt reinforcing layers disposed between the tread and the carcass cord layer, the reinforcing cord of one of the belt reinforcing layers having an angle of 15 to 30 degrees with respect to the tire circumferential direction and the reinforcing cord of the other of the belt reinforcing layers having an angle of 150 to 165 degrees with respect to the tire circumferential direction. The carcass cord layer consists of upper and lower two layers, and the angle .alpha..sub.2 of the reinforcing cord of the upper carcass cord layer with respect to the tire circumferential direction and the angle .alpha..sub.1 of the reinforcing cord of the lower carcass cord layer with respect to the tire circumferential direction satisfy the following relations:1/2(.alpha..sub.1 +.alpha..sub.2)=96.degree. to 108.degree.(.alpha..sub.2 -.alpha..sub.1)=10.degree. to 40.degree..
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuneo Morikawa, Kazuyuki Kabe
  • Patent number: 4469158
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is disclosed which comprises a tread, a carcass cord layer and at least two belt reinforcing layers disposed between the tread and the carcass cord layer, wherein the reinforcing cord of one of the belt reinforcing layers has an angle of 15.degree. to 30.degree. with respect to the circumferential direction of the tire and the reinforcing cord of the other makes an angle of 150.degree. to 165.degree. to the circumferential direction. The carcass cord layer consists of only one layer and the reinforcing cord thereof makes an angle of 66.degree. to 82.degree. with respect to the circumferential direction of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 4, 1984
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kabe, Tsuneo Morikawa
  • Patent number: 4454644
    Abstract: A method of making a clamp used for a supercharger in an internal combustion engine is initiated by cutting out an unworked clamp half from a plate material. The half is then formed such that it is semicircular in front elevation and the opposite ends extend outwardly. Other clamp half is made in the same manner. An unworked link is cut out from a plate material and then its plane strain is corrected. Further, the link is chamfered and hardened. The halves are arranged in circle and the worked link is inserted into one ends of the halves. Finally, these ends are curled around the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1984
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichiro Okazaki, Shigeaki Akazawa
  • Patent number: 4430143
    Abstract: The band transfer device is provided between the band building device and tire building device, and on the side of the band transfer device facing the tire building device, is provided a bead supply means. This bead supply means comprises a bead retaining part having a plurality of divided segments movable in the radial direction and arranged in an expansible ring, and a bead kicking means for kicking a bead retained on the bead retaining part onto the bead ring of the tire building device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1984
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tohru Aihara
  • Patent number: 4417005
    Abstract: A rubber composition comprising a specific extender oil-extended styrene.butadiene copolymer rubber, at least one other diene rubber and, as required, carbon black, the rubber composition being useful in the preparation of tire treads having decreased rolling resistance without decreasing braking performance. This invention also relates to a specific two-step mixing method for preparing a rubber composition for producing tire treads having further improved rolling resistance and like properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1983
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akinori Tokieda, Sumio Takasugi
  • Patent number: 4405689
    Abstract: An ultraviolet-curing composition comprising an ultraviolet-curing resin having active OH group or COOH group, a vinyl monomer, a thickening agent and a photo-sensitizer. A prepreg sheet containing the composition. A metallic material having anticorrosive coating which comprises a metallic material coated with a coating material mainly comprising petrolatum and further with another coating material mainly comprising the above composition. A metallic material having an anticorrosive coating which comprises a metallic material on the surface of which a rust-proof paint layer is provided and the surface of which layer is further coated with a coating material mainly comprising the above composition. The above composition and prepreg sheet are useful for the lining of metallic members of frame-work and structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4396052
    Abstract: A radial tire having an under-tread layer between a cap tread and a breaker layer is disclosed. As the material for the cap tread, a rubber composition is employed which contains 0.5 to 1.6 parts by weight of sulfur per 100 parts by weight of starting rubber components consisting of 25 to 75 parts by weight of polybutadidne rubber having 65 to 90 mol % of 1,2-bonding units and 75 to 25 parts by weight of natural rubber and/or polyisoprene rubber, and which has elongation at break of at least 330% at 100.degree. C. A rubber composition containing 1.6 to 10 parts by weight of sulfur per 100 parts by weight of rubber components is used for the under-tread layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Asahiro Ahagon, Norimichi Takanashi, Hiroshi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 4388960
    Abstract: A motorcycle tire suitable for running on a road having rain grooves formed on the surface, which has a first main groove circumferentially continuously formed in a central region of the tread portion and second main grooves formed at least one run of unitary groove portions at each side of and with space from the first main groove and having interrupted portions at intervals in the circumferential direction of the tire. The first main groove comprises a plurality of groove segments and a plurality of connecting groove segments, and the groove segments, which lie circumferentially alternately at one and the other of two regions of the tread portion divided and lying closely along the center line of the tread portion and lie parallel to the center line and circumferentially successively spaced, are connected by the connecting groove segments which extend across the center line and connect together the facing ends of each two adjacent groove segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1983
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Wada, Koichi Iwasaki, Hajime Nakata
  • Patent number: 4387755
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a tread reinforcement layer constituted by a steel cord strip layer adjacent the carcass and an aromatic polyamide cord strip layer superposed to the steel cord strip layer in a parallel side-by-side relationship. The aromatic polyamide cord strip layer is folded at its both edges toward the center, in such a manner that the folded portions contact the main portion in a parallel side-by-side relationship. The main portion has a width ranging between 100 and 110% of the width of the tread surface, while the width of each folded portion ranges between 27.5 and 35% of the width of main portion. Furthermore, the free edge of each folded portion is located at a distance from the center of the outermost circumferential groove in the tread surface, which distance being between 25 and 75% of the distance between the outermost groove and the adjacent groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1983
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Kato, Tuneo Morikawa, Kazuyuki Kabe
  • Patent number: 4384027
    Abstract: A composite comprising a steel cords-covering rubber composition and a rubber composition which is contiguous thereto and contains a thiazole type vulcanization accelerator, at least one of these rubber compositions containing a m-cresol resin whereby they can be cured without decreasing the resulting strength of bond therebetween even after they have been left uncured in contact with each other for a considerable time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1983
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Kawakami, Yasuhiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 4377458
    Abstract: An ultraviolet-curing composition comprising an ultraviolet-curing resin having active OH group or COOH group, a vinyl monomer, a thickening agent and a photo-sensitizer. A prepreg sheet containing the composition. A metallic material having anticorrosive coating which comprises a metallic material coated with a coating material mainly comprising petrolatum and further with another coating material mainly comprising the above composition. A metallic material having an anticorrosive coating which comprises a metallic material on the surface of which a rust-proof paint layer is provided and the surface of which layer is further coated with a coating material mainly comprising the above composition. The above composition and prepreg sheet are useful for the lining of metallic members of frame-work and structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1983
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4342670
    Abstract: A process for preparing a rubber composition for tire treads having resilience, wet skid resistance and wear resistance well balanced with each other, by mechanically mixing a specific amount in total of a halogenated butyl rubber, natural rubber or a polyisoprene rubber and a polybutadiene rubber with a specific amount of carbon black and with other additives in the first mixing step and then mechanically mixing the resulting mixture with the remainder of the rubber ingredients and carbon black in the second mixing step thereby to obtain the rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1982
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Asahiro Ahagon, Makoto Misawa, Hiroshi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 4326576
    Abstract: Disclosed is a high hardness rubber composition having a hardness of at least 92, which comprises 100 parts by weight of a rubber, 55 to 95 parts by weight of soft black having an average particle size of 40 to 80 millimicrons, 5 to 30 parts by weight of a thermosetting resin and a small amount of a curing agent, the sum of the amounts of the soft black and thermosetting resin being 60 to 100 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the rubber.This high hardness rubber composition is advantageously used as a tire reinforcement for the rim cushion portion or for both the rim cushion portion and bead filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1982
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Mizumoto, Yukio Tozawa, Masatoshi Kozima, Masaru Hirai
  • Patent number: 4323485
    Abstract: A rubber composition for tire treads having improved rolling resistance and wet road braking performance, comprising (I) a chlorinated butyl rubber and/or a brominated butyl rubber, (II) natural rubber and/or a polyisoprene rubber and, if desired, (III) a polybutadiene rubber in specific blending ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1982
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Asahiro Ahagon, Makoto Misawa, Kazuo Miyasaka, Hiroshi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 4321168
    Abstract: A process for preparing a tire tread rubber composition having improved rolling resistance and wet skid resistance comprising [I] 100 parts by weight of a rubber material composed of 25 to 75% by weight of substantially amorphous polybutadiene having a 1,2-bond unit content of 65 to 90 mole % and a Mooney viscosity (ML.sub.1+4, 100.degree. C.) of 20 to 100 and 75 to 25% by weight of natural rubber and/or cis-1,4-polyisoprene, and [II] 40 to 70 parts by weight of carbon black, said process comprising (1) mechanically compounding 40 to 60 parts by weight of the rubber material [I] with 40 to 70 parts by weight of carbon black [II], and then (2) adding to the resulting mixture the rubber material [I] in an amount sufficient to adjust the amount of the carbon black [II] to 40 to 70 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the rubber material [I] and mechanically compounding them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignees: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd., The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Ueda, Shuichi Akita, Hiroshi Hirakawa, Asahiro Ahagon
  • Patent number: 4319619
    Abstract: A pneutmatic radial-ply tire in which the rubber portion of at least one of a carcass ply and an undertread constituting the tire is made of a rubber which has a viscoelastic property of loss tangent, tan.delta., of 0.2 or lower (tan.delta..ltoreq.0.2) and storage modulus, G, of 120 Kg/cm.sup.2 or higher (G.gtoreq.120 kg/cm.sup.2), so that the rolling resistance of the tire is reduced without being accompanied by degradation of braking performance, control stability, comfortableness and wear resistance of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1982
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kozima, Akinori Tokieda, Tadanobu Nagumo, Masaru Hirai
  • Patent number: 4309318
    Abstract: A tread composition for low rolling resistance tires, comprising 100 parts by weight of styrene-butadiene rubber or a styrene-butadiene rubber-based rubber blend and 3.2-5.0 parts by weight of sulphur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Assignee: Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Asahiro Ahagon, Makoto Misawa, Hiroshi Hirakawa, Kazuo Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 4300614
    Abstract: A cured puncture sealant for a tire which comprises (1) either a copolymer of at least one acrylate selected from 2-ethylhexyl acrylate and n-butyl acrylate, and a glycidyl monomer, or a copolymer of at least one of the above acrylates, a glycidyl monomer, and at least one other acrylic monomer, and (2) a curing agent for epoxy resin. The sealant may optionally further include a polymer whose solubility parameter to the above copolymer is in the range of .+-.0.5. The sealant is most effective as a puncture sealant for a tubeless tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1981
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Kageyama, Shigeo Omote, Youichi Taguchi, Hazime Yamazaki
  • Patent number: D264702
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1982
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Kaga
  • Patent number: D266064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1982
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yukio Sone