Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Hirakawa

Hiroshi Hirakawa 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: 20240073505
    Abstract: An illumination system includes: an irradiation device that irradiates light to a subject located in front of a displayer that displays a background image; an information acquisition device that acquires subject information for identifying the subject; a storage that stores background image information on the background image displayed on the displayer; and a controller that controls irradiation by the irradiation device. The controller generates shape information of the subject on basis of a difference between the subject information acquired by the information acquisition device and the background image information stored in the storage, and sets an irradiation range where light is irradiated by the irradiation device on basis of the shape information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Hidemasa KUBOTA, Kinya NOBORI, HIROSHI KAWAMURA, CHIKA HIRAKAWA
  • Patent number: 5405690
    Abstract: A rubber-rubber bonded composite structure is made up of one unvulcanized preform formed from a rubber comprising hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, either a combination of methacrylic acid and zinc oxide or zinc methacrylate, and an organic peroxide and another unvulcanized preform formed from a rubber composition containing a rubber in common use, both preforms having been laminated together into an integrally bonded structure by vulcanization. The resulting structure exhibits good rubber-to-rubber adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 5370915
    Abstract: A rubber-rubber bonded composite structure is made up of one unvulcanized preform formed from a rubber comprising hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber, either a combination of methacrylic acid and zinc oxide or zinc methacrylate, and an organic peroxide and another unvulcanized preform formed from a rubber composition containing a rubber in common use both preforms having been laminated together into an integrally bonded structure by vulcanization. The resulting structure exhibits good rubber-to-rubber adhesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 5264259
    Abstract: The energy absorbing structure of the present invention comprises a cylindrical hollow body of a fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin wherein both the ends are open, the cylindrical hollow body being attached to the outer wall of a moving body or the outer wall of a stationary body with which the moving body comes in contact in such a manner that the opening of the hollow body faces the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Satoh, Hiroshi Hirakawa, Hiroyuki Hamada
  • Patent number: 5236030
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire for automobile having an inner liner of a thin film of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene, which film is laminated directly over an inner wall of green tire and firmly bonded thereto when the tire is vulcanized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Misawa, Hiroshi Hirakawa, Masao Inoue
  • Patent number: 4748168
    Abstract: Rubber compositions suitable for tire treads are disclosed. Starting rubbers made up of at least one SBR of -20.degree. C. to -40.degree. C. in Tg and at least one SBR of lower than -45.degree. C. in Tg are blended with specified amounts of carbon blacks having a N.sub.2 SA of more than 120 m.sup.2 /g and of softeners having a VGC of 0.90 to 0.98, whereby the compositions are provided with a storage shear modulus of less than 500 MPa at -30.degree. C. The compositions are excellent in friction performance, abrasion resistance and low-temperature resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Kawakami, Makoto Misawa, Takekazu Inoue, Yasuhiro Ishikawa, Hiroshi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 4396052
    Abstract: A radial tire having an under-tread layer between a cap tread and a breaker layer is disclosed. As the material for the cap tread, a rubber composition is employed which contains 0.5 to 1.6 parts by weight of sulfur per 100 parts by weight of starting rubber components consisting of 25 to 75 parts by weight of polybutadidne rubber having 65 to 90 mol % of 1,2-bonding units and 75 to 25 parts by weight of natural rubber and/or polyisoprene rubber, and which has elongation at break of at least 330% at 100.degree. C. A rubber composition containing 1.6 to 10 parts by weight of sulfur per 100 parts by weight of rubber components is used for the under-tread layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Asahiro Ahagon, Norimichi Takanashi, Hiroshi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 4373566
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire having a reduced rolling resistance and particularly suitable for a passenger car, comprising a toroidal carcass, a belt layer, a bead core, a side rubber, a tread rubber, a relatively thin base rubber, and a rubber filler, wherein provision is made of a stress relieving groove composed of a depression facing toward the bead rubber at a position near the joint portion between the side rubber and the tread rubber, the base rubber having a resilience which is higher than those of the tread rubber and the bead rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1983
    Assignee: Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hirakawa, Akio Sato, Takashi Takusagawa, Nobumasa Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4349061
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for passenger cars having a low rolling resistance is disclosed. The radial tire comprises a body reinforcement including a toroidal carcass composed of radially arranged cords and a belt superimposed about the carcass and consisting of plural rubberized plies each containing cords arranged at 60.degree.-80.degree. with respect to the radial plane of the tire, which cords of said plies being crossed with each other, and a bead reinforcement wherein the carcass is wound around a bead core to form a turnup portion, thread and sidewall rubbers covering these reinforcements. In the radial tire, a super-hard bead filler rubber is arranged at a region extending from the bead core to the middle part of the side portion, and a base rubber having a low loss modulus and a high resilience is arranged on at least both side edge parts of the belt at a volume ratio in the coating rubber for tread portion of 0.1-0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: Bridgestone Tire Company Limited
    Inventors: Hiroshi Hirakawa, Akio Sato, Takashi Takusagawa, Nobumasa Ikeda
  • Patent number: 4342670
    Abstract: A process for preparing a rubber composition for tire treads having resilience, wet skid resistance and wear resistance well balanced with each other, by mechanically mixing a specific amount in total of a halogenated butyl rubber, natural rubber or a polyisoprene rubber and a polybutadiene rubber with a specific amount of carbon black and with other additives in the first mixing step and then mechanically mixing the resulting mixture with the remainder of the rubber ingredients and carbon black in the second mixing step thereby to obtain the rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1982
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Asahiro Ahagon, Makoto Misawa, Hiroshi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 4323485
    Abstract: A rubber composition for tire treads having improved rolling resistance and wet road braking performance, comprising (I) a chlorinated butyl rubber and/or a brominated butyl rubber, (II) natural rubber and/or a polyisoprene rubber and, if desired, (III) a polybutadiene rubber in specific blending ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1982
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Asahiro Ahagon, Makoto Misawa, Kazuo Miyasaka, Hiroshi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 4321168
    Abstract: A process for preparing a tire tread rubber composition having improved rolling resistance and wet skid resistance comprising [I] 100 parts by weight of a rubber material composed of 25 to 75% by weight of substantially amorphous polybutadiene having a 1,2-bond unit content of 65 to 90 mole % and a Mooney viscosity (ML.sub.1+4, 100.degree. C.) of 20 to 100 and 75 to 25% by weight of natural rubber and/or cis-1,4-polyisoprene, and [II] 40 to 70 parts by weight of carbon black, said process comprising (1) mechanically compounding 40 to 60 parts by weight of the rubber material [I] with 40 to 70 parts by weight of carbon black [II], and then (2) adding to the resulting mixture the rubber material [I] in an amount sufficient to adjust the amount of the carbon black [II] to 40 to 70 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the rubber material [I] and mechanically compounding them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1980
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1982
    Assignees: Nippon Zeon Co., Ltd., The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Ueda, Shuichi Akita, Hiroshi Hirakawa, Asahiro Ahagon
  • Patent number: 4309318
    Abstract: A tread composition for low rolling resistance tires, comprising 100 parts by weight of styrene-butadiene rubber or a styrene-butadiene rubber-based rubber blend and 3.2-5.0 parts by weight of sulphur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1982
    Assignee: Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Asahiro Ahagon, Makoto Misawa, Hiroshi Hirakawa, Kazuo Miyasaka
  • Patent number: 4026878
    Abstract: Rubber compositions containing therein as a source of carbon disulfide a compound selected from the group consisting of cyclic bis (dithiocarbamic acid) metal salts and cyclic or non-cyclic dithiocarbamic-xanthogenic acid metal salts and an amine-isocyanate addition compound as a vulcanization accelerator system having excellent scorching stability with rapid vulcanization at usual vulcanization temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Kageyama, Hiroshi Hirakawa, Masatake Ozaki, Iwao Sugiyama, Mitsuharu Iwakura, Yoshiaki Someya
  • Patent number: 4026877
    Abstract: Rubber compositions containing therein as a source of carbon disulfide at least one compound selected from the group consisting of cyclic bis (thiocarbamoyl) mono- or di-sulfides, cyclic bis (thioxanthogenyl) mono- or di-sulfides, and cyclic (thiocarbamoyl-thioxanthogenyl) mono- or di-sulfides and an amine-isocyanate addition compound as a vulcanization accelerator system having excellent scorching stability with rapid vulcanization at usual vulcanization temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1977
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunio Kageyama, Hiroshi Hirakawa, Masatake Ozaki, Iwao Sugiyama, Mitsuharu Iwakura, Yoshiaki Someya
  • Patent number: 4020252
    Abstract: Rubber compositions containing an alkylene-bisdithiocarbamate and an amine-isocyanate addition compound as a vulcanization accelerator having excellent scorching stability with rapid vulcanization at usual vulcanization temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Iwao Sugiyama, Teruhide Furuhama, Fumiaki Nagano, Hiroshi Hirakawa