Patents by Inventor Hiraku Koda

Hiraku Koda 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: 20240059101
    Abstract: In a tire, a tire outer diameter OD is in a range 200 mm?OD?660 mm. A total tire width SW is in a range 100 mm?SW?400 mm. A carcass layer is formed by layering two layers of carcass plies formed by covering organic fiber cords with coating rubbers. The organic fiber cords of the two layers of the carcass plies have cord angles in a range of 80 degrees or more and 100 degrees or less with respect to a tire circumferential direction. A tensile strength Tcs per a width of 50 mm of each of the two layers of the carcass plies (13A, 13B) is in a range 17 N/mm?Tcs/OD?120 N/mm with respect to the tire outer diameter OD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Masayuki FUJISHIRO, Hiraku KODA, Haruka TATENO
  • Patent number: 11833860
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. At least one land portion is defined and formed by a plurality of circumferential main grooves provided in a tread surface. A main sipe including a body portion and a chamfered portion is formed in at least one side of the body portion. A branch sipe branching from the chamfered portion is provided. The depth of the body portion is equal to or greater than the depth of the branch sipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiraku Koda, Ryohei Takemori, Yuki Sasaya
  • 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: 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20220203778
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. At least one land portion is defined and formed by a plurality of circumferential main grooves provided in a tread surface. A main sipe including a body portion and a chamfered portion is formed in at least one side of the body portion. A branch sipe branching from the chamfered portion is provided. The depth of the body portion is equal to or greater than the depth of the branch sipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Hiraku KODA, Ryohei TAKEMORI, Yuki SASAYA
  • Publication number: 20220161606
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire with wet steering stability performance and dry steering stability performance enhanced in a well-balanced manner. A dimple group is composed of a plurality of dimples (100 to 104) disposed at intervals and aligned in a tire circumferential direction. When the minimum center-to-center distance between different dimples (100, 102) in an identical dimple group is defined as K and the minimum center-to-center distance between dimples (104, 100) in different dimple groups is defined as L, the ratio L/K is 3.5 or more and 10.0 or less and the minimum center-to-center distance L is 20 mm or more and equal to or less than a ground contact length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Hiraku KODA, Ryohei TAKEMORI, Yuki SASAYA
  • Publication number: 20210268844
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes protrusion portions formed on at least one tire side portion of tire side portions located on both sides in a width direction, projecting from a tire side surface that is a surface of the tire side portion, and extending along the tire side surface, the protrusion portions having an angle ? within a range of no less than 6% and no more than 50% of an angle of one round in a circumferential direction, the angle ? being relative and in the circumferential direction between two protrusion portion end position lines that respectively extend in a radial direction through different end portions of both end portions in an extending direction of the protrusion portions, and the tire side portion having a thickness at a tire maximum width position within a range of no less than 2 mm and no more than 9 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Hiraku Koda, Masaaki Nagayasu, Ryohei Takemori, Yuki Sasaya
  • Publication number: 20210221183
    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: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku ` Koda, Jun Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20210170808
    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: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Koda, Jun Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20200361251
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a rubber occupancy ratio in a closed region is in a range of 15% or less. Bead cores have a predetermined wire arrangement structure formed by arranging wire cross sections of bead wires in a cross-sectional view in a tire meridian direction. A tangential contacts an innermost layer in a tire radial direction and the wire cross sections innermost and outermost in a tire lateral direction in the wire arrangement structure from a rim fitting surface side. Contact points of the tangent line are on the innermost and outermost wire cross sections. A gauge is in the tire lateral direction from the midpoint to the rim fitting surface. A rate of change of the gauge between before and after mounting on a rim is in a range from 10% or greater to 60% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hiraku Koda, Jun Matsuda, Atsushi Tanno
  • Publication number: 20200331302
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a turned back portion of a carcass layer contacts a body portion of the carcass layer in a cross-sectional view in a tire meridian direction to form a closed region surrounding bead cores. A rubber occupancy ratio in the closed region is in a range of 15% or less. The bead cores have a predetermined wire arrangement structure formed by arranging wire cross sections of bead wires in the cross-sectional view in the tire meridian direction. Additionally, a self-contact height (CH) of the carcass layer and a circumferential length (L) of the wire arrangement have a relationship 1.0?CH/L?10.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Hiraku Koda, Jun Matsuda, Atsushi Tanno