Patents by Inventor Harunobu Suita
Harunobu Suita 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).
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Publication number: 20200207161Abstract: A tire includes: a bead core; a bead filler which extends to an outer side in the tire-radial direction of the bead core; a carcass ply which extends from the bead core to another bead core, and folded back around the bead core; and a rubber sheet which covers a folding end of the carcass ply folded back, in which an electronic component is provided between the bead filler and the rubber sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Harunobu SUITA
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Publication number: 20200207160Abstract: A tire includes: a bead core; a bead filler which extends to an outer side in the tire-radial direction of the bead core; a carcass ply which extends from the bead core to another bead core, and folded back around the bead core; a first rubber sheet which covers a folding end of the carcass ply folded back from an inner side in the tire-width direction; and a second rubber sheet which covers the folding end of the carcass ply folded back from an outer side in the tire-width direction, in which an electronic component is provided between the first rubber sheet and the second rubber sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Harunobu SUITA
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Publication number: 20200110978Abstract: A tire includes: a carcass ply extending from one bead core to another bead core; side-wall rubber arranged at an outer side in the tire-width direction of the carcass ply; a belt arranged at an outer side in the tire-radial direction of the carcass ply in the tread; and a pad arranged between the carcass ply and an end region in the tire-width direction of the belt, in which the pad extends up to an outer side in the tire-width direction, the pad and side-wall rubber is laminated at part of the carcass ply, and an electronic component is embedded between the pad and side-wall rubber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Harunobu SUITA
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Publication number: 20200108676Abstract: A tire includes: a bead filler extending to an outer side in the tire-radial direction of a bead core; a carcass ply folded around the bead core; a steel chafer arranged so as to cover the carcass ply around the bead core; a first pad covering an outer side in the tire-width direction of a folding end of the carcass ply, at the outer side in the tire-radial direction of the end part of the steel chafer; a second pad covering an outer side in the tire-width direction of the first pad; and side wall rubber covering at least part of the outer side in the tire-width direction of the second pad, in which an electronic component is provided between the second pad and the side wall rubber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Harunobu SUITA
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Publication number: 20200112079Abstract: A tire including a bead core, a bead filler extending to an outer side in a tire-radial direction of the bead core, and a carcass play extending from the bead core to another bead core and folded back around the bead core, further including a steel chafer arranged so as to cover the carcass ply around the bead core, a first pad which covers outside in the tire-width direction of a folding end of the carcass ply at the outside in the tire-radial direction of an end part of the steel chafer, and a second pad which covers the outer side in the tire-width direction of the first pad, in which an electronic component is provided between the first pad and second pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Harunobu SUITA
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Publication number: 20200108677Abstract: A tire includes: a bead core; a bead filler extending to an outer side in the tire-radial direction of the bead core; a carcass ply which is folded back around the bead core; a pad member disposed on an outer side in the tire-width direction of the bead filler; and a first rubber sheet disposed in a state covering a folding end of the carcass ply which is folded back, between the bead filler and the pad member, in which a second rubber sheet covering an electronic component is disposed between the bead filler and the pad member on an outer side in the tire-radial direction of the first rubber sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Harunobu SUITA
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Patent number: 10391816Abstract: A belt layer includes first and second main working belts and a reinforcement belt. A cord angle of the reinforcement belt is 6 to 9 degrees. A width of the reinforcement belt is equal to or wider than 50% of a tire-section width and not wider than a width of a narrower one of the first and second main working belts. When an intersection of the perpendicular line extending from a groove bottom center of a shoulder main groove to the reinforcement belt and an upper surface of the reinforcement belt is set as an origin, a ratio of a dimension from the origin to an end portion of the reinforcement belt to a half width of the reinforcement belt is not smaller than ?0.07 and not larger than 0.11.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Harunobu Suita
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Publication number: 20190193468Abstract: A tire has cap rubber that forms a contact patch. The cap rubber has a plurality of lugs. A shoulder lug, which among the plurality of lugs is that which is located outwardmost in a tire width direction, has a narrow groove that extends in the tire circumferential direction and that partitions the shoulder lug into a main lug portion toward the interior in the tire width direction, and a sacrificial lug portion toward the exterior in the tire width direction; and low-modulus rubber, for which stress at a given elongation is lower than that of the cap rubber, is arranged at a corner where the contact patch at the main lug portion and a groove side face toward the interior in the tire width direction which forms the narrow groove intersect.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Harunobu Suita
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Publication number: 20190152273Abstract: The pneumatic tire includes a plurality of ribs formed by a plurality of main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and connected to each other in the tire circumferential direction. The shoulder rib positioned on either side in a tire width direction of the ribs includes a first sipe configured to open to a ground contact surface and an outer side surface on a rib end side, and a second sipe positioned on an inner side in a tire radial direction of the first sipe and configured to open to the outer side surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Harunobu Suita
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Publication number: 20190135040Abstract: A tire having four belt plies laminated at an outside circumference of the carcass. Cords at second and third belt plies among the four belt plies, as numbered from the carcass to the outside circumference, intersect, being inclined in mutually opposite fashion with respect to a tire axis. Angles of inclination with respect to the tire circumferential direction of the second and third belt plies are such that an angle at a belt end is less than an angle at a tire equator. A first mounded region that has a peak at which the angle of inclination is greater than at a periphery and that corresponds to a shoulder rib which among the plurality of ribs is provided. The peak at the first mounded region is arranged at a shoulder rib region which appears to overlap the shoulder rib as seen in plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Harunobu Suita
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Publication number: 20180147890Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided with tread including a shoulder lug extending in the tire circumferential direction. The shoulder lug is provided with a narrow groove extending in the tire circumferential direction and includes a sacrificial lug portion disposed toward the exterior in the tire width direction from the narrow groove. The outline of the sacrificial lug portion includes a first arc and a second arc disposed toward the interior in the tire width direction from the first arc. The two ends of first arc include a first end and second end disposed toward the exterior in the tire radial direction, and toward the interior in the tire width direction, from first end. The two ends of second arc include a first end and a second end disposed toward the interior in the tire radial direction, and toward the interior in the tire width direction, from the first end.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Harunobu Suita
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Publication number: 20180147895Abstract: A pneumatic tire in accordance with the present disclosure is provided with tread comprising shoulder lug provided with narrow groove. Shoulder lug comprises main lug portion, which comprises first arc, second arc and line segment. First arc constitutes a portion of a tread surface at tread. Line segment constitutes a portion of a wall face at narrow groove. Second arc connects first arc and line segment. Line passes through point common to first arc and second arc and is disposed at a location toward the interior in the tire width direction. Narrow groove comprises first region and second region. Second region is of curved shape, the curvature being such as to bring it closer to the tire equatorial plane as the depth thereof increases.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2017Publication date: May 31, 2018Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Harunobu Suita
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Publication number: 20180126786Abstract: A tire has a carcass, four belt plies, a tread rubber, a plurality of main grooves and a rib. The plurality of main grooves and the rib being formed on a surface of the tread rubber. The cords of second and third belt plies of the four belt plies from the carcass toward the outer periphery are inclined in an opposite direction to each other relative to a tire axis, and are intersected with each other. An angle of incline of the cords of the second and third belt plies relative to the tire peripheral direction is smaller at an belt end than that at a tire equator. The angle of incline in a groove area overlapping the main grooves in plan view is greater than an angle of incline in rib areas at both sides of the groove area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Harunobu Suita
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Publication number: 20170028784Abstract: A belt layer includes first and second main working belts and a reinforcement belt. A cord angle of the reinforcement belt is 6 to 9 degrees. A width of the reinforcement belt is equal to or wider than 50% of a tire-section width and not wider than a width of a narrower one of the first and second main working belts. When an intersection of the perpendicular line extending from a groove bottom center of a shoulder main groove to the reinforcement belt and an upper surface of the reinforcement belt is set as an origin, a ratio of a dimension from the origin to an end portion of the reinforcement belt to a half width of the reinforcement belt is not smaller than ?0.07 and not larger than 0.11.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Harunobu Suita
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Patent number: 9469159Abstract: A shoulder main groove has a plurality of circumferential components inclined to an inside in a tire width direction toward a forward in a tire rotating direction. The circumferential components are communicated with each other via a lateral groove. A shoulder block row includes a first block positioned in a rear side in the tire rotating direction of the circumferential component, and a second block which has a smaller area of a top surface than the first block, and is adjacent to the first block with the lateral groove sandwiched therebetween. A plurality of projections elevating from a groove bottom and protruding out of a side wall of the second block are provided. A volume of the projection positioned in a trailing side of the second block is larger than a volume of the projection positioned in a leading side.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Harunobu Suita
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Publication number: 20130068359Abstract: A shoulder main groove has a plurality of circumferential components inclined to an inside in a tire width direction toward a forward in a tire rotating direction. The circumferential components are communicated with each other via a lateral groove. A shoulder block row includes a first block positioned in a rear side in the tire rotating direction of the circumferential component, and a second block which has a smaller area of a top surface than the first block, and is adjacent to the first block with the lateral groove sandwiched therebetween. A plurality of projections elevating from a groove bottom and protruding out of a side wall of the second block are provided. A volume of the projection positioned in a trailing side of the second block is larger than a volume of the projection positioned in a leading side.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2012Publication date: March 21, 2013Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Harunobu Suita
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Patent number: 7836925Abstract: In a pneumatic tire in which a tread with a plurality of grooves 1 and 2 including main grooves 1 extending in the tire circumferential direction formed and in which block 3 is formed on shoulder portions of tread T by grooves 1 and 2, on intersection line L between a surface of tread T and a surface of side portion S, the first sipes 11 extending in the tire circumferential direction R are formed, and the depth direction of the sipes 11 and 12 is parallel to tire equatorial plane C, and the sipes 12 are deeper than the sipes 11 and the sipes 12 are wider than the sipes 11, and height difference between a surface of wearing region 13 and a surface of side portion S is not greater than 2.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Kaji, Yuichi Nakamura, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Harunobu Suita
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Publication number: 20070227638Abstract: In a pneumatic tire in which a tread with a plurality of grooves 1 and 2 including main grooves 1 extending in the tire circumferential direction formed and in which block 3 is formed on shoulder portions of tread T by grooves 1 and 2, on intersection line L between a surface of tread T and a surface of side portion S, the first sipes 11 extending in the tire circumferential direction R are formed, and the depth direction of the sipes 11 and 12 is parallel to tire equatorial plane C, and the sipes 12 are deeper than the sipes 11 and the sipes 12 are wider than the sipes 11, and height difference between a surface of wearing region 13 and a surface of side portion S is not greater than 2.0 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Applicant: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichi Kaji, Yuichi Nakamura, Hiroaki Sugimoto, Harunobu Suita