Patents by Inventor Ayaka SHINDO

Ayaka SHINDO 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: 20260175090
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is, for a golf ball comprising a cover containing a polyurethane as a resin component, to improve formability of the cover and increase productivity of the golf ball while inhibiting lowering of scratch resistance of the cover. The present disclosure provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and a cover covering the spherical core, wherein the cover is formed from a cover composition containing (A) a thermoplastic polyurethane and (B) a carboxylic acid having a molecular weight of 1000 or less as a resin component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2025
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayaka SHINDO, Takahiro SHIGEMITSU
  • Publication number: 20260175093
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is, for a golf ball comprising a cover containing a polyurethane as a resin component, to improve formability of the cover and increase productivity of the golf ball while suppressing lowering in scratch resistance of the cover. The present disclosure provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and a cover covering the spherical core, wherein the cover contains (A) a thermoplastic polyurethane as a resin component, and a difference ?v (v1?v2) between a wave number (v1) of an absorption peak attributed to an N—H group not forming a hydrogen bond in (A) the thermoplastic polyurethane and a wave number (v2) of an absorption peak attributed to an N—H group forming a hydrogen bond with a carbonyl oxygen of a urethane group in (A) the thermoplastic polyurethane ranges from 100.0 cm?1 to 109.0 cm?1 when the cover is measured with a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer under the predetermined measuring conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2025
    Publication date: June 25, 2026
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuko KUJIRAI, Ayaka SHINDO, Takahiro SHIGEMITSU
  • Publication number: 20250303237
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is, for a golf ball comprising a cover containing a polyurethane as a resin component, to improve the moldability of the cover and increase the productivity of the golf ball while suppressing lowering in the scratch resistance of the cover. The present disclosure provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and a cover covering the spherical core, wherein the cover is formed from a cover composition containing (A) a thermoplastic polyurethane and (B) an olefin/unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymer and/or an olefin/unsaturated carboxylic acid/unsaturated carboxylic acid ester copolymer as a resin component, and an amount of (A) the thermoplastic polyurethane is 50 mass % or more in the resin component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Publication date: October 2, 2025
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayaka SHINDO, Takahiro SHIGEMITSU, Kazuyoshi SHIGA
  • Patent number: 12220616
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a golf ball having good shot feeling and excellent durability while having non-lowered resilience. The present disclosure provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and one or more cover layers disposed outside the spherical core, wherein at least one layer of the cover layers contains (A) a base resin and (B) a polyethylene oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ayaka Shindo, Takahiro Shigemitsu, Kazuyoshi Shiga, Toshiyuki Tarao, Takanobu Kawamura
  • Patent number: 12202954
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a rubber composition from which a crosslinked rubber molded product having good softness and excellent resilience performance can be obtained. The present disclosure provides a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, (c) a crosslinking initiator, and (d) an organic sulfur compound, wherein (d) the organic sulfur compound includes (d1) a polythiophene compound having two or more thiophene rings in the molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takumi Kaneko, Hiroshi Tadaoka, Ayaka Shindo, Kazuyoshi Shiga
  • Patent number: 11975242
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a golf ball having good shot feeling and excellent durability and not having lowered resilience even if a hard cover material is used. The present disclosure provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core, and a cover disposed outside the spherical core and composed of one or more layers, wherein at least one cover layer contains (A) a base resin, and (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of a polyrotaxane, a polyethylene oxide, a polypropylene oxide, a polycaprolactone and a liquid polymer, and Sa×Spc?100 wherein Sa (?m) is an arithmetic mean roughness of a surface of a cut plane of the cover, and Spc (mm?1) is an arithmetic mean curvature of a summit of the surface of the cut plane of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ayaka Shindo, Takahiro Shigemitsu, Kazuyoshi Shiga, Toshiyuki Tarao, Takanobu Kawamura
  • Publication number: 20240132705
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a rubber composition from which a crosslinked rubber molded product having excellent resilience performance can be obtained. The present disclosure provides a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, and (c) a crosslinking initiator, wherein (b) the co-crosslinking agent includes (b1) a metal complex, and (b1) the metal complex is composed of (b11) a metal component, (b12) a ligand derived from an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid compound having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, and (b13) a ligand derived from a mercaptobenzothiazole-based compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayaka SHINDO, Takumi KANEKO, Hiroshi TADAOKA, Kazuyoshi SHIGA
  • Publication number: 20230338781
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a golf ball having good shot feeling and excellent durability while having non-lowered resilience. The present disclosure provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and one or more cover layers disposed outside the spherical core, wherein at least one layer of the cover layers contains (A) a base resin and (B) a polyethylene oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayaka SHINDO, Takahiro SHIGEMITSU, Kazuyoshi SHIGA, Toshiyuki TARAO, Takanobu KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230312878
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a rubber composition from which a crosslinked rubber molded product having good softness and excellent resilience performance can be obtained. The present disclosure provides a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, (c) a crosslinking initiator, and (d) an organic sulfur compound, wherein (d) the organic sulfur compound includes (d1) a compound represented by the formula (1) and/or (d2) a compound represented by the formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takumi KANEKO, Hiroshi TADAOKA, Ayaka SHINDO, Kazuyoshi SHIGA
  • Publication number: 20230201670
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a golf ball having good shot feeling and excellent durability and not having lowered resilience even if a hard cover material is used. The present disclosure provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core, and a cover disposed outside the spherical core and composed of one or more layers, wherein at least one cover layer contains (A) a base resin, and (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of a polyrotaxane, a polyethylene oxide, a polypropylene oxide, a polycaprolactone and a liquid polymer, and Sa×Spc?100 wherein Sa (?m) is an arithmetic mean roughness of a surface of a cut plane of the cover, and Spc (mm?1) is an arithmetic mean curvature of a summit of the surface of the cut plane of the cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayaka SHINDO, Takahiro SHIGEMITSU, Kazuyoshi SHIGA, Toshiyuki TARAO, Takanobu KAWAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230114853
    Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a rubber composition from which a crosslinked rubber molded product having good softness and excellent resilience performance can be obtained. The present disclosure provides a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, (c) a crosslinking initiator, and (d) an organic sulfur compound, wherein (d) the organic sulfur compound includes (d1) a polythiophene compound having two or more thiophene rings in the molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takumi KANEKO, Hiroshi TADAOKA, Ayaka SHINDO, Kazuyoshi SHIGA
  • Patent number: 11565154
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having a decreased spin rate on driver shots. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and at least one cover layer covering the spherical core, wherein the spherical core is formed from a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) a compound represented by the formula (1) as a co-crosslinking agent, and (c) a crosslinking initiator, (R1COO)M(OCOR2)m??(1) in the formula (1), M represents a metal atom, m represents 1 or 2, R1 and R2 are different from each other, represent an alkenyl group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms or an alkynyl group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms and have a carbon-carbon double bond or a carbon-carbon triple bond at an ?-position carbon atom bonding to the carbonyl group, and when m is 2, two of R2 may be identical to or different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ayaka Shindo, Takumi Kaneko, Hiroshi Tadaoka, Takahiro Shigemitsu, Kazuyoshi Shiga
  • Patent number: 11554295
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having a decreased spin rate on driver shots. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and at least one cover layer covering the spherical core, wherein the spherical core is formed from a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) two or more ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acids having 3 to 14 carbon atoms and having no substituent group at a carbon atom bonding to the carboxy group, and/or a metal salt thereof, and (c) a crosslinking initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ayaka Shindo, Takumi Kaneko, Hiroshi Tadaoka, Takahiro Shigemitsu, Kazuyoshi Shiga
  • Patent number: 11185742
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having excellent resilience performance. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a constituent member, wherein at least a part of the constituent member is formed from a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, (c) a crosslinking initiator, and (d) an organic sulfur compound, wherein (d) the organic sulfur compound contains at least one member selected from the group consisting of a thiophenol having a halogenated sulfanyl group, a metal salt of a thiophenol having a halogenated sulfanyl group, and a diphenyl disulfide having a halogenated sulfanyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ayaka Shindo, Takumi Kaneko, Hiroshi Tadaoka, Kazuyoshi Shiga
  • Publication number: 20210086036
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having a decreased spin rate on driver shots. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and at least one cover layer covering the spherical core, wherein the spherical core is formed from a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) a compound represented by the formula (1) as a co-crosslinking agent, and (c) a crosslinking initiator, (R1COO)M(OCOR2)m??(1) in the formula (1), M represents a metal atom, m represents 1 or 2, R1 and R2 are different from each other, represent an alkenyl group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms or an alkynyl group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms and have a carbon-carbon double bond or a carbon-carbon triple bond at an ?-position carbon atom bonding to the carbonyl group, and when m is 2, two of R2 may be identical to or different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayaka SHINDO, Takumi KANEKO, Hiroshi TADAOKA, Takahiro SHIGEMITSU, Kazuyoshi SHIGA
  • Publication number: 20210086035
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having a decreased spin rate on driver shots. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and at least one cover layer covering the spherical core, wherein the spherical core is formed from a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) two or more ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acids having 3 to 14 carbon atoms and having no substituent group at a carbon atom bonding to the carboxy group, and/or a metal salt thereof, and (c) a crosslinking initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ayaka SHINDO, Takumi KANEKO, Hiroshi TADAOKA, Takahiro SHIGEMITSU, Kazuyoshi SHIGA
  • Publication number: 20200129813
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having excellent resilience performance. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a constituent member, wherein at least a part of the constituent member is formed from a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, (c) a crosslinking initiator, and (d) an organic sulfur compound, wherein (d) the organic sulfur compound contains at least one member selected from the group consisting of a thiophenol having a halogenated sulfanyl group, a metal salt of a thiophenol having a halogenated sulfanyl group, and a diphenyl disulfide having a halogenated sulfanyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ayaka Shindo, Takumi Kaneko, Hiroshi Tadaoka, Kazuyoshi Shiga
  • Patent number: 10265585
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball excellent in flying performance, in particular, to provide a golf ball traveling a great flight distance. The present invention provides a golf ball having a spherical core and at least one cover layer covering the spherical core, wherein the spherical core is formed from a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms and/or a metal salt thereof as a co-crosslinking agent, (c) a crosslinking initiator, and (d1) an aromatic carboxylic acid or (d2) an aromatic carboxylic acid salt, provided that the rubber composition further contains (e) a metal compound in the case of containing only (b) the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms as the co-crosslinking agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Chiemi Mikura, Kazuhisa Fushihara, Mikio Yamada, Shun Kurihara, Ayaka Shindo
  • Patent number: 10232224
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having excellent resilience performance. The present invention provides a golf ball having a spherical core and at least one cover layer, wherein the spherical core is formed from a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) an ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms and/or a metal salt thereof as a co-crosslinking agent, and (c) a crosslinking initiator, provided that the rubber composition further contains (d) a metal compound in the case of containing only (b) the ?,?-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms as the co-crosslinking agent, wherein (c) the crosslinking initiator includes a peroxy ketal represented by the formula (1), and substituents represented by R1 and R2 have a bond dissociation energy of 435 KJ/mol or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ayaka Shindo, Hiroshi Tadaoka, Chiemi Mikura, Kazuyoshi Shiga
  • Patent number: 9975007
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball showing a great flight distance on driver shots. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and at least one cover layer covering the spherical core, wherein the spherical core has a difference between absorbance of the absorption peak appeared at 1560±30 cm?1 at a surface thereof and absorbance of the absorption peak appeared at 1560±30 cm?1 at a center thereof of 0.024 or more, when measuring the spherical core with a Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: DUNLOP SPORTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayaka Shindo, Chiemi Mikura, Shun Kurihara, Kazuhisa Fushihara