Patents by Inventor Daisuke Kanenari

Daisuke Kanenari 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: 20040198890
    Abstract: A rubber composition and a pneumatic tire using the composition, the rubber composition comprising at least one type of rubber of a total of 100 pts.wt. and carbon black formed of acetylene of 10 to 100 pts.wt., wherein a heat conductivity is increased to 0.3 kcal/m.h. ° C. or higher to promote a radiation effect; the pneumatic tire using the rubber composition for at least a part of the side wall part of the tire and/or the portion of the head part of the tire coming into contact with at least the tire wheel rim flange of the tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventor: Daisuke Kanenari
  • Patent number: 6759136
    Abstract: A rubber laminate strengthening the bonding strength at a high temperature and under high strain by adjusting the formulation of the bonding rubber arranged between a hydrogenated NBR composition and general diene-based rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Takashi Kakubo
  • Publication number: 20040031550
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a runflat capability provided with a crescent shaped reinforcing rubber layer at the side part thereof, wherein an inner layer is composed of a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing (A) at least one thermoplastic resin having an air permeation coefficient of 100×10−12 cc·cm/cm2·sec·cmHg or less and a Young's modulus of more than 500 MPa and (B) at least one elastomer ingredient having an air permeation coefficient of 50×10−12 cc·cm/cm2·sec·cmHg or more and a Young's modulus of 500 MPa or less in amounts of at least 30% by weight based upon the total polymer ingredients and having an air permeation coefficient of 100×10−12 cc·cm/cm2·sec·cmHg or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Kazuto Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 6666248
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire for a construction vehicle, which enhances a reinforcement effect by protectors provided on a sidewall portion. This pneumatic tire includes: at least two convex-shaped protectors extended in a tire circumferential direction, the protectors being provided in a range of 30 through 65% of a tire cross-sectional height on at least one of sidewall portions; and elastomeric reinforcing members buried inside the protectors, wherein a 100% modulus of the elastomeric reinforcing members is set at 5 through 25 times a 100% modulus of a rubber composition of the sidewall portion adjacent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norio Omoto, Shuuichi Fukutani, Daisuke Kanenari
  • Patent number: 6617383
    Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer composition of a structure of a thermoplastic resin (A) in which a rubber composition (B) is dispersed, where the stress at the time of 2.5% elongation of the stress-strain curve of the thermoplastic elastomer composition is 0.1 to 50 MPa and the ratio of the stress (M200) at −20° C. and 200% elongation and the stress (M100) at −20° C. and 100% elongation is 1.0<M200/M100<2.0, particularly a thermoplastic elastomer composition structured with the polyamide resin of the thermoplastic resin (A) in which the rubber composition (B) is dispersed, includes a polyamide plasticizer (C1) and/or a thermoplastic elastomer (C2), the ratio of composition being (A) 15 to 59% by weight, (B) 40 to 70% by weight (C1+C2), and 1 to 30% by weight and a tire using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Ikawa, Kazuto Yamakawa, Yuichi Hara, Daisuke Kanenari, Katsuhiro Tanaka, Yoshihiro Soeda
  • Publication number: 20030145929
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising a rubber member containing a short fiber (A′) formed by the fibrillation of a short fiber (A) whose cross section takes a sea-island structure essentially composed of at least two polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Riichiro Mama, Kazuto Yamakawa, Takeo Masaki, Zenichiro Shida, Junichi Ohtani, Tsuyoshi Kunugi
  • Publication number: 20030145930
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising a rubber member containing a short fiber (A′) formed by the fibrillation of a short fiber (A) whose cross section takes a sea-island structure essentially composed of at least two polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Riichiro Mama, Kazuto Yamakawa, Takeo Masaki, Zenichiro Shida, Junichi Ohtani, Tsuyoshi Kunugi
  • Publication number: 20030136489
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising a rubber member containing a short fiber (A′) formed by the fibrillation of a short fiber (A) whose cross section takes a sea-island structure essentially composed of at least two polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2002
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Riichiro Mama, Kazuto Yamakawa, Takeo Masaki, Zenichiro Shida, Junichi Ohtani, Tsuyoshi Kunugi
  • Patent number: 6588470
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising a rubber member containing a short fiber (A′) formed by the fibrillation of a short fiber (A) whose cross section takes a sea-island structure essentially composed of at least two polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Riichiro Mama, Kazuto Yamakawa
  • Publication number: 20030062106
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire constituting part or all of the part members constituting the pneumatic tire by a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a rubber containing at least 70 parts by weight of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene-based highly saturated rubber having a content of conjugated diene units of not more than 30 percent by weight, 0 to 120 parts by weight of zinc methacrylate and 0 to 60 parts by weight of carbon black and having a total formulations of zinc methacrylate and carbon black of 10 to 120 parts by weight, and providing, between the above part members and the adjoining diene-based rubber layer, a bonding rubber layer comprising of a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a predetermined diene-based rubber and acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer rubber, 5 to 80 parts by weight of a predetermined aromatic petroleum resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Yoshiaki Hashimura, Zenichiro Shida, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20030062105
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire constituting part or all of the part members constituting the pneumatic tire by a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a rubber containing at least 70 parts by weight of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene-based highly saturated rubber having a content of conjugated diene units of not more than 30 percent by weight, 0 to 120 parts by weight of zinc methacrylate and 0 to 60 parts by weight of carbon black and having a total formulations of zinc methacrylate and carbon black of 10 to 120 parts by weight, and providing, between the above part members and the adjoining diene-based rubber layer, a bonding rubber layer comprising of a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a predetermined diene-based rubber and acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer rubber, 5 to 80 parts by weight of a predetermined aromatic petroleum resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Yoshiaki Hashimura, Zenichiro Shida, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Publication number: 20030062104
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire constituting part or all of the part members constituting the pneumatic tire by a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a rubber containing at least 70 parts by weight of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene-based highly saturated rubber having a content of conjugated diene units of not more than 30 percent by weight, 0 to 120 parts by weight of zinc methacrylate and 0 to 60 parts by weight of carbon black and having a total formulations of zinc methacrylate and carbon black of 10 to 120 parts by weight, and providing, between the above part members and the adjoining diene-based rubber layer, a bonding rubber layer comprising of a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a predetermined diene-based rubber and acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer rubber, 5 to 80 parts by weight of a predetermined aromatic petroleum resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: April 3, 2003
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Yoshiaki Hashimura, Zenichiro Shida, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 6538066
    Abstract: A thermoplastic elastomer composition dynamically vulcanized to a gelation rate of 50 to 95% which is superior in heat resistance and durability while maintaining flexibility and superior in air permeation preventive property which can be efficiently used as, for example, a pneumatic tire as an air permeation preventive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiro Watanabe, Kazuto Yamakawa, Daisuke Kanenari, Noriaki Kuroda, Gou Kawaguchi, Yuichi Hara, Tetsuji Kawazura, Shigeru Yamauchi, Hideo Nemoto
  • Publication number: 20030022993
    Abstract: A modified halogenated rubber wherein at least 5% of a halogen portion of the halogenated rubber is substituted with (i) a chain polymer having a carboxyl group or amino group at the end thereof and having a weight average molecular weight of at least 1000 or (ii) a non-polymer compound having a carboxyl group or amino group and having intermolecular interaction and a thermoplastic elastomer composition containing the same as a dispersed phase, together with a thermoplastic resin as a continuous phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Inventors: Kazuo Arakawa, Daisuke Kanenari, Keisuke Chino
  • Publication number: 20030005993
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire for a construction vehicle, which enhances a reinforcement effect by protectors provided on a sidewall portion. This pneumatic tire includes: at least two convex-shaped protectors extended in a tire circumferential direction, the protectors being provided in a range of 30 through 65% of a tire cross-sectional height on at least one of sidewall portions; and elastic reinforcing members buried inside the protectors, wherein a 100% modulus of the elastic reinforcing members is set at 5 through 25 times a 100% modulus of a rubber composition of the sidewall portion adjacent thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventors: Norio Omoto, Shuuichi Fukutani, Daisuke Kanenari
  • Patent number: 6494543
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire according to the present invention, at least a portion for an inner surface of a tire is pigmented with a fluorescent material, with a chromatic color of specified lightness and saturation or with an achromatic color at V=10. Further, in a tire-rim assembly according to the present invention, at least a portion for an inner surface of a tire is pigmented with a fluorescent material, with a chromatic color of specified lightness and saturation or with an achromatic color at V=10 as the discriminating information for rim assembly, and at least a portion for the surface of a rim assembled with the tire is pigmented with a color related to the color pigmenting the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Hashimura, Daisuke Kanenari
  • Patent number: 6431236
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a non-black rubber composition provided at the at least one portion thereof, at least a portion of said non-black rubber composition comprising 100 part by weight of at least one synthetic rubber and 5 to 100 parts by weight of strontium aluminate or calcium aluminate a long afterglow phosphorescent substance having an average particle size of 1 to 100 Am and having no substantial amounts of carbon black and staining antioxidant, and crosslinked with a crosslinking agent other than sulfur or a pneumatic tire having two or more layer structure of a surface layer of the above phosphorescent rubber composition layer and a lower layer of a blight-colored reflecting layer or the transparent or translucent cover layer and the under phosphorescent rubber composition layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Hiroyuki Kaido
  • Patent number: 6397913
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire constituting part or all of the part members constituting the pneumatic tire by a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a rubber containing at least 70 parts by weight of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene-based highly saturated rubber having a content of conjugated diene units of not more than 30 percent by weight, 0 to 120 parts by weight of zinc methacrylate and 0 to 60 parts by weight of carbon black and having a total of formulations of zinc methacrylate and carbon black of 10 to 120 parts by weight, and providing, between the above part members and the adjoining diene-based rubber layer, a bonding rubber layer comprising of a rubber composition containing, based on a total 100 parts by weight of a predetermined diene-based rubber and acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer rubber, 5 to 80 parts by weight of a predetermined aromatic petroleum resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Yoshiaki Hashimura, Zenichiro Shida, Tadashi Higuchi
  • Patent number: 6382285
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire having at least two or more pieces of carcasses, wherein a high hardness rubber component sheet, which has tensile stress of 2.0 MPa or more when extended by 20% to a tire circumferential direction and JIS-A hardness of 65 or more, is arranged at least between carcass plies at a tread portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Mori, Daisuke Kanenari
  • Publication number: 20020033217
    Abstract: A rubber laminate strengthening the bonding strength at a high temperature and under high strain by adjusting the formulation of the bonding rubber arranged between a hydrogenated NBR composition and general diene-based rubber, wherein the bonding rubber composition is comprised of 100 parts by weight of a rubber containing 50 to 85 parts by weight of at least one type of diene-based rubber selected from natural rubber, polyisoprene rubber, polybutadiene rubber, and a conjugated diene-aromatic vinyl copolymer and 15 to 50 parts by weight of an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene-based high saturation rubber with a content of conjugated diene units of not more than 30 wt % plus 10 to 60 parts by weight of zinc methacrylate, 0.3 to 10 parts by weight of an organic peroxide, and 5 to 50 parts by weight of a co-cross-linking agent having one of an acryl group, methacryl group, and allyl group and liquid at room temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Applicant: THE YOKOHAMA RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanenari, Takashi Kakubo