Patents by Inventor Hiroo Matsunaga

Hiroo Matsunaga 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: 20080142143
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire in which separation of a tread rubber and a side rubber from each other at an interface therebetween can be substantially prevented and separation of the side rubber and a side wall rubber from each other at an interface therebetween can also be substantially prevented. The pneumatic tire is structured such that the interface between the side rubber and the side wall rubber is provided, not at a side surface side of the tire, but at a outer peripheral side area (i.e., low distortion portion) thereof. As a result, bending deformation acting at the interface between the side rubber and the side wall rubber can be reduced, thereby separation of the side rubber and the side wall rubber from each other at the interface can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroo MATSUNAGA
  • Patent number: 6896836
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions and a pair of bead portions is manufactured by conducting the venting in a portion of a green tire placed in a vulcanization mold prior to vulcanization and corresponding to the sidewall portion in at least one place in a radial direction of the tire during the vulcanization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroo Matsunaga, Takeshi Hamachi, Miyoji Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20050034801
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to obtain a pneumatic tire in which separation of a tread rubber and a side rubber from each other at an interface therebetween can be substantially prevented and separation of the side rubber and a side wall rubber from each other at an interface therebetween can also be substantially prevented, and a production method of the pneumatic tire. The pneumatic tire is structured such that the interface between the side rubber 28 and the side wall rubber 32 appears, not at a side surface side of the tire, but at a ground-contacting side (i.e., low distortion portion) thereof. As a result, bending deformation acting at the interface between the side rubber 28 and the side wall rubber 32 can be reduced, and thereby separation of the side rubber 28 and the side wall rubber 32 from each other (i.e., cracks) at the interface can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2003
    Publication date: February 17, 2005
    Inventor: Hiroo Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 6830722
    Abstract: It is a method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire provided with a bead guard having an excellent appearance without forming spews and bare, wherein when a pneumatic tire (1) provided with a bead guard (5) of a trapezoidal shape at section is vulcanization-shaped in a split type mold (11) comprising a pair of annular side rings (13) and many divided segments (12) for the formation of a tread portion integrally united and engaged therewith, an edge (13-1 SE, 13-2iSE) of a dividing face (13-1S, 13-2iS) between mutually adjoining side ring pieces (13-1, 13-2) formed by annularly dividing a side ring (13) inward and outward in a radial direction with respect to a center axis line of the split type mold (11) and located at a side of a tire shaping face is positioned in a place corresponding to a depressing portion (15) forming a bead guard (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroo Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20020185204
    Abstract: It is a method of manufacturing a pneumatic tire provided with a bead guard having an excellent appearance without forming spews and bare, wherein when a pneumatic tire (1) provided with a bead guard (5) of a trapezoidal shape at section is vulcanization-shaped in a split type mold (11) comprising a pair of annular side rings (13) and many divided segments (12) for the formation of a tread portion integrally united and engaged therewith, an edge (13-1 SE, 13-2iSE) of a dividing face (13-1S, 13-2iS) between mutually adjoining side ring pieces (13-1, 13-2) formed by annularly dividing a side ring (13) inward and outward in a radial direction with respect to a center axis line of the split type mold (11) and located at a side of a tire shaping face is positioned in a place corresponding to a depressing portion (15) forming a bead guard (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventor: Hiroo Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20020100538
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions and a pair of bead portions is manufactured by conducting the venting in a portion of a green tire placed in a vulcanization mold prior to vulcanization and corresponding to the sidewall portion in at least one place in a radial direction of the tire during the vulcanization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroo Matsunaga, Takeshi Hamachi, Miyoji Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 5425828
    Abstract: In the manufacture of pneumatic radial tires each having an annular groove in its central portion, a green tire is formed from a belt-tread band having a constricted portion formed by concavely depressing a belt and a tread inward in a radial direction of the tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Imai, Hironobu Fukushima, Hiroo Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 5277238
    Abstract: A high-speed running pneumatic radial tire comprises a cylindrical crown portion, a pair of sidewall portions extending inward therefrom, a radial carcass extending from one of the sidewall portions through the crown portion to the other sidewall portion, and a belt and a tread successively superimposed on the crown portion outward in the radial direction of the tire. The tread has plural rows of blocks defined by plural circumferential grooves and many lateral grooves, and the belt is comprised of at least two main crosscord belt layers and an auxiliary belt layer arranged thereon. The auxiliary belt layer is formed by spirally winding a rubberized ribbon ply of heat-shrinkable cords on the main belt layers, in which an overlapped amount of the ribbon ply is made large in a zone of the tread substantially corresponding to the block row than in a zone of the tread substantially corresponding to the circumferential groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Misao Kawabata, Hisao Ushikubo, Yutaka Yamaguchi, Katsutoshi Tani, Hiroo Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 5228933
    Abstract: A high performance pneumatic radial tire comprises a toroidal carcass, a tread radially outside a crown portion of the carcass, a belt layer interposed between the carcass and the tread and having a same width of the tread, and an auxiliary layer arranged between the belt layer and the tread and covering the entire belt layer. organic cords are buried substantially parallel to an equatorial plane of the tire in the auxiliary layer, and land portions are defined between at least two circumferential main grooves formed in an outer surface portion of the tread and between the circumferential main grooves and axially opposite edges of the tread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Misao Kawabata, Hisao Ushikubo, Yutaka Yamaguchi, Katsutoshi Tani, Hiroo Matsunaga