Patents by Inventor Ataka Takei

Ataka Takei has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11453246
    Abstract: In a tire, plural outer side cutouts, which respectively correspond to block land portions and extend toward tire width direction outer sides and end midway along outer side land portions, are formed so as to be spaced apart in a tire circumferential direction in tire width direction inner-side side walls, which are exposed to central circumferential grooves, of the outer side land portions that are provided further toward tire width direction outer sides than the two central circumferential grooves respectively. Further, at least portions of tire width direction inner side openings of the outer side cutouts are positioned between maximum position A, at which a tire width direction distance of a corresponding block land portion is a maximum, and an intermediate point B of two vertices that are adjacent at a tire width direction outer-side side wall of the block land portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Ataka Takei, Shoko Nagamoto
  • Publication number: 20200238767
    Abstract: In a tire, plural outer side cutouts, which respectively correspond to block land portions and extend toward tire width direction outer sides and end midway along outer side land portions, are formed so as to be spaced apart in a tire circumferential direction in tire width direction inner-side side walls, which are exposed to central circumferential grooves, of the outer side land portions that are provided further toward tire width direction outer sides than the two central circumferential grooves respectively. Further, at least portions of tire width direction inner side openings of the outer side cutouts are positioned between maximum position A, at which a tire width direction distance of a corresponding block land portion is a maximum, and an intermediate point B of two vertices that are adjacent at a tire width direction outer-side side wall of the block land portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Atsushi WATANABE, Ataka TAKEI, Shoko NAGAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10245889
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire (10), which has, in the surface of the tread (11), lug grooves (15) on one side extending from one axial edge towards the axial center of the tire in such a manner as to intersect with the circumferential direction of the tire and lug grooves (15) on the other side extending in a symmetrically opposite direction from the axial center towards the other axial edge of the tire, has at least one circumferential groove (12) extending circumferentially around the tire. Also, circumferential grooves (12, 13a, 13b) are so formed as to satisfy a relationship of “1?(S/L)?3” where L is the axial length of the central region, which is the region enclosed by two straight parallel lines each passing through the center between the contact width center (CL) and the contact edge with the shoulder regions being the regions axially outside of the parallel lines, and S is the total of the groove areas of the circumferential grooves (12, 13a, 13b) disposed in the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsaku Katayama, Eisuke Seta, Yoshio Kaji, Masafumi Koide, Takayuki Kurata, Hiroyuki Katsuno, Masakazu Amano, Ataka Takei
  • Patent number: 10245893
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a pair of circumferential grooves, a plurality of lateral grooves, and longitudinal grooves communicating between the lateral grooves on the outsides, in a tire width direction, of the circumferential grooves. Each lateral groove includes a lateral groove first portion, a lateral groove second portion disposed further outward, in the tire width direction, than the lateral groove first portion, and a lateral groove step portion connecting the lateral groove first portion and lateral groove second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ataka Takei, Yuki Watanabe, Tomoaki Ito
  • Patent number: 9884517
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire, having in a tread surface thereof a pair of circumferential grooves formed on respective sides of the tire equatorial plane in the middle, a rib-like central land portion row demarcated by the circumferential grooves, and a plurality of lateral grooves extending between the central land portion row and each tread end, comprises in each half region of the tread: a row of first intermediate blocks each having a circumferential length D2 and demarcated by the lateral grooves, the corresponding circumferential groove, and first longitudinal grooves; and a row of second intermediate blocks demarcated by the lateral grooves, the first longitudinal grooves, and second longitudinal grooves, wherein facing openings of the first/second longitudinal grooves adjacent in the tire circumferential direction are offset from each other, and provided that D1 represents a circumferential distance between adjacent ends of the adjacent first and second intermediate blocks, D1?D2/2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ataka Takei
  • Patent number: 9802444
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire (10) has, in the surface of the tread (11), a central circumferential groove (12) located at the center of the contact patch width and extending circumferentially around the tire, a plurality of longitudinal grooves (13 (13a, 13b)) formed on the axially outside of the central circumferential groove (12), lug grooves (15), and blocks (16 (16a to 16c)) defined by the central circumferential groove (12), the longitudinal grooves (13), and the lug grooves (15). Each of the lug grooves (15) is formed such that its width in the shoulder region is greater than its width in the central region, and the sum of the groove area of the central circumferential groove (12) and the groove area of the longitudinal grooves (13) is smaller than the area of the lug grooves (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsaku Katayama, Eisuke Seta, Yoshio Kaji, Masafumi Koide, Takayuki Kurata, Hiroyuki Katsuno, Masakazu Amano, Ataka Takei
  • Patent number: 9630453
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire used with a specified rotation direction, including a tread, a pair of sidewalls extending continuously from the tread inward in a tire radial direction, a pair of beads continuous with the sidewalls inward in the tire radial direction, and at least one ridge on a buttress surface. The buttress surface extends from a tread edge of a tread surface formed on the tread to the sidewall. The ridge extends from a sidewall side of the buttress surface towards the tread edge and terminates before reaching the tread edge. The ridge includes a steeply inclined surface, having a high gradient with respect to the buttress surface, inclined forwards in the rotation direction, and a moderately inclined surface, having a more moderate gradient than the steeply inclined surface, inclined backwards in the rotation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ataka Takei
  • Patent number: 9434212
    Abstract: First inclined grooves (110) and second inclined grooves (160) are formed on a land portion (40) of a tire. The first inclined grooves (110) and second inclined grooves (160) are alternately formed in the circumferential direction of the tire. Circumferential direction sipes (200) comprise: first circumferential direction sipes (210) that are formed extending from the end at the land portion (40) side of the first inclined grooves (110) to the central portion, in the tread width direction, of the second inclined grooves (160); and second circumferential direction sipes (220) that extend from the central portion, in the tread width direction, of the second inclined grooves (160) along the extension line from the first circumferential sipes (210). The second circumferential sipes (220) terminate in the land portion (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ataka Takei
  • Publication number: 20150352902
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a pair of circumferential grooves, a plurality of lateral grooves, and longitudinal grooves communicating between the lateral grooves on the outsides, in a tire width direction, of the circumferential grooves. Each lateral groove includes a lateral groove first portion, a lateral groove second portion disposed further outward, in the tire width direction, than the lateral groove first portion, and a lateral groove step portion connecting the lateral groove first portion and lateral groove second portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ataka TAKEI, Yuki WATANABE, Tomoaki ITO
  • Publication number: 20150321518
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire (10) has, in the surface of the tread (11), a central circumferential groove (12) located at the center of the contact patch width and extending circumferentially around the tire, a plurality of longitudinal grooves (13 (13a, 13b)) formed on the axially outside of the central circumferential groove (12), lug grooves (15), and blocks (16 (16a to 16c)) defined by the central circumferential groove (12), the longitudinal grooves (13), and the lug grooves (15). Each of the lug grooves (15) is formed such that its width in the shoulder region is greater than its width in the central region, and the sum of the groove area of the central circumferential groove (12) and the groove area of the longitudinal grooves (13) is smaller than the area of the lug grooves (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2013
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsaku KATAYAMA, Eisuke SETA, Yoshio KAJI, Masafumi KOIDE, Takayuki KURATA, Hiroyuki KATSUNO, Masakazu AMANO, Ataka TAKEI
  • Patent number: D749494
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ataka Takei
  • Patent number: D764388
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ataka Takei, Yuki Watanabe, Tomoaki Ito
  • Patent number: D786781
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ataka Takei
  • Patent number: D791684
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ataka Takei, Shoko Nagamoto
  • Patent number: D792321
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ataka Takei
  • Patent number: D792325
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ataka Takei
  • Patent number: D792326
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ataka Takei
  • Patent number: D792327
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ataka Takei
  • Patent number: D792328
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ataka Takei, Shoko Nagamoto
  • Patent number: D967751
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Paula R. Lundgren, Ataka Takei, Adam D. Singer, David M. Severyn