Patents by Inventor Atsushi Tanno

Atsushi Tanno 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).

  • Publication number: 20240123772
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including: a tread portion that extends in a tire circumferential direction and forms an annular shape; a pair of sidewall portions disposed on both sides of the tread portion; and a pair of bead portions disposed on an inner side in a tire radial direction of the sidewall portions, wherein an anti-insect layer having extermination characteristics or repellent characteristics with respect to insect pests is provided on an innermost surface of the pneumatic tire, or a repellent layer having repellent or extermination characteristics with respect to insect pests or small animals is provided on an outer surface of the pneumatic tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventor: Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 11951782
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes: a tire inner surface rubber layer constituting a tire inner surface; and an electrically conductive member, at least a part of the electrically conductive member being disposed on an inner cavity side of the tire inner surface rubber layer. The electrically conductive member includes a knitted fabric including a yarn, at least a part of the yarn having electrical conductivity, the knitted fabric having stretchability. The electrically conductive member is electrically connected to an electrical device provided in the tire. The electrically conductive member is disposed extending along the tire inner surface in a tire radial direction, and a direction in which the electrically conductive member extends aligns with a direction in which the knitted fabric has stretchability. The knitted fabric is configured by mixing a yarn having electrical conductivity and a yarn having non-electrical conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Shun Sato
  • Patent number: 11890899
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a planar-shaped receiver coil in a cavity region, and configured to receive a magnetic field through a carcass ply layer and generate a signal, and an element to receive power converted from the signal. A receiving region of the receiver coil is interposed between an outermost side of a bead core in the radial direction and an innermost side of a belt layer in the radial direction, and the receiving region faces in the width direction. When a maximum dimension of the receiving region along the radial direction of the receiver coil is a length D1, a distance from the receiving region to a nearest portion of the bead core to the receiving region is L1, and a distance from the receiving region to a nearest portion of the belt layer to the receiving region is L2, relationships L1>(D1/4) and L2>(D2/4) are satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 11781525
    Abstract: Provided is a power generation system. The power generation system comprises: a pneumatic tire; a wheel on which the pneumatic tire is mounted; and at least one generator wind turbine attached to the pneumatic tire and/or the wheel in a cavity defined by the pneumatic tire and the wheel. The generator wind turbine is configured to lay flat or stand upright.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 11702555
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire that rotates about a center axis includes a tread rubber that comprises a contact patch; a groove provided in the tread rubber, the groove having an inner surface that includes a bottom surface and side surfaces that connect the bottom surface to the contact patch; and a coating film disposed covering at least a portion of the inner surface, the coating film reducing exposure of ultraviolet light to the inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 11660915
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire mounted with surface fastener members for attaching an object to a tire inner surface, comprises: at least eight surface fastener members having an intermittent arrangement on a tread inner circumferential surface, the surface fastener members having a uniform cross-sectional dimension, an overall band-like shape, and a length in a tire axial direction from 50% to 120% of a maximum belt width of the pneumatic tire; wherein an angle ? between a longitudinal direction of the surface fastener members and the tire axial direction is from 0 degrees to 45 degrees; and an installation period in a tire circumferential direction is from 80% to 150% of the length in the tire axial direction of the surface fastener members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 11660914
    Abstract: In this pneumatic tire, the bead core has a predetermined wire array structure obtained by arranging wire cross-sections of bead wires in a cross-sectional view in a tire meridian direction. The following are defined in the wire array structure: a tangent line that contacts, from the side of a rim fitting face, an innermost layer in the tire radial direction and the wire cross-section on the innermost side and the outermost side in the tire lateral direction; contact points of the tangent line with respect to the wire cross-sections on the innermost side and the outermost side; a middle point of the contact points; and gauges in the tire radial direction from the contact points and middle point to the rim fitting face. In this case, the change rates of the gauges before and after rim assembly each are in the range of 10% to 60%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 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: 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: 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: 11524531
    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: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Koda, Jun Matsuda
  • Patent number: 11498365
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire with a surface provided with a reflective layer that reflects light, the reflective layer including a transparent globule group composed of transparent globules. At least some of the transparent globules are each configured to reflect incident light incident into the transparent globule from outside, at an interface with the outside of the transparent globule, and to emit the light to the outside of the transparent globule as reflected light. The transparent globules are each configured to cause the reflected light to include more amount of non-retroreflected light than retroreflected light, the non-retroreflected light moving further away from an optical path of the incident light according to a distance from the transparent globules, being increased. The transparent globules each have an optical path of the non-retroreflected light with an angle difference of from 2.0 degrees to 2.5 degrees from the optical path of the incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Shusaku Tomoi
  • Patent number: 11458778
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided with a carcass layer and a sidewall rubber disposed on an outer side in a tire width direction of the carcass layer. Additionally, the pneumatic tire is provided with a resin coating applied on a predetermined region of a sidewall portion. Additionally, a minimum value of a wall thickness t of a rubber of the sidewall portion in the region applied with the resin coating is in a range of 0.05 mm?t?4.0 mm. Additionally, a thickness of the resin coating is in a range of 20 ?m or more and 300 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Jun Matsuda
  • 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: 11364750
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided. In a meridian cross-section, an external contour shape of the bead core is a polygon formed by common tangent lines of a plurality of circumferential portions of a bead wire, the external contour shape includes a single vertex located toward the outside in a tire radial direction, an internal angle formed by two sides sandwiching the vertex is an acute angle, a bottom side of the external contour shape is inclined with respect to the tire lateral direction by from 2° to 9°, and the carcass layer is bent and folded back along a circumference of the bead core in a bead portion, a folded back portion of the carcass layer from a position of an outer end of the bead core in the tire radial direction extends toward a sidewall portion in contact with a body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryohei Takemori, Masaaki Nagayasu, Yuki Sasaya, Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20220176752
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a sound absorptive member is installed on an inner surface of a tread portion with a sheet material interposed therebetween.The sheet material is fixed relative to the tire inner surface or the sound absorptive member at first fixed regions. The sheet material is not fixed relative to the tire inner surface or the sound absorptive member at a non-fixed region between the first fixed regions. The sheet material is fixed at a second fixed region relative to the other of the tire inner surface or the sound absorptive member ina portion of the non-fixed region. A repair liquid introducing portion connects a closed space and a tire cavity with the sheet material, the closed space being separated from the tire cavity by the tire inner surface and the non-fixed region or the sound absorptive member and the non-fixed region in a meridian cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Daichi WATABE, Atsushi TANNO
  • Publication number: 20220172465
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a surface and is rotatable about a center axis. The surface of the pneumatic tire includes a ground colored region including a surface of rubber, and an image recognition belt region including a colored region provided in a circumferential direction of the center axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Atsushi Tanno
  • Patent number: 11331960
    Abstract: Of layers configuring a bead core of a pneumatic tire, the width W0 of one of the layers including the greatest number of rows, the width W1, W2 of other of the layers located respectively innermost and outermost in the radial direction satisfy W1>W2 and W2?0.5×W0. The position of width W0 is inward in the radial direction of the center of the bead core. A carcass is folded and curved along the bead core and extends toward sidewalls where a folded back portion of the carcass contacts a body of the carcass. A rubber occupancy ratio in a closed region formed by the body and the folded back portion is 0.1% to 15%. The cross-sectional area S2 and hardness H2 of a filler outward of the carcass in the lateral direction, and the cross-sectional area S1 and the hardness H1 of the side reinforcing layer satisfy 0.12?(S2×H2)/(S1×H1)?0.50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda, Masaaki Nagayasu, Yuki Sasaya, Ryohei Takemori
  • Publication number: 20220072914
    Abstract: On a pneumatic tire, a sound absorbing member is installed on an inner surface of a tread portion via a surface fastener including a pair including a hook member and a loop member, the hook member including hook-shaped elements on one surface and being fixed to the tire inner surface, and the loop member being provided with loop-shaped elements engageable with the hook-shaped elements and being fixed to the sound absorbing member. In a meridian cross-section, the loop member has at least one section partially fixed in a tire width direction to the sound absorbing member. Given a fixed region in which the loop member is fixed to the sound absorbing member, and a non-fixed region in which the loop member is not fixed to the sound absorbing member, an engaging region in which the loop member and the hook member engage each other is on the non-fixed region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi TANNO, Daichi WATABE
  • Publication number: 20220063356
    Abstract: An abnormality monitoring system includes gas sensors provided in the cavity or the vicinity of a tire provided in a vehicle, a determination unit that determines the presence of an abnormality in the tire on the basis of the detection results of the gas sensors, and an output unit that outputs data based on the determination result of the determination unit. The gas sensors detect a volatile substance when abnormal heat build-up occurs in the tire. The volatile substance is a substance derived from an additive added when a tire is manufactured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Atsushi TANNO, Takue TSUJI