Patents by Inventor Isao Kuwayama

Isao Kuwayama 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: 20240059103
    Abstract: The pneumatic tire for passenger vehicles according to the present disclosure comprises a carcass consisting of plies of radially arranged cords, spanning toroidally between a pair of bead portions; the cross-sectional width SW and the outer diameter OD of the tire satisfy a given relationship; the land portion has a plurality of width direction sipes extending in the tire width direction; the pitch length in the tire circumferential direction of the plurality of width direction sipes is 3 mm to 10 mm; and the width direction sipe has a widened portion on the sipe bottom side where the sipe width is larger than that on the tread surface side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao KUWAYAMA, Shintaro HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240042804
    Abstract: The pneumatic tire for passenger vehicles according to the present disclosure comprises a carcass consisting of plies of radially arranged cords, spanning toroidally between a pair of bead portions; the cross-sectional width SW and the outer diameter OD of the tire satisfy a given relationship; the tire has a tread portion with tread rubber; the rubber gauge of the tread portion is 2 mm or more and less than 5 mm; and the tread surface of the tread portion has one or more land portions, and a width direction sipe extending in the tire width direction is formed in the land portion so that there are two or more of the width direction sipes in the contact patch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao KUWAYAMA, Shintaro HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240042802
    Abstract: The pneumatic radial tire for passenger vehicles according to the present disclosure comprises a carcass consisting of plies of radially arranged cords, spanning toroidally between a pair of bead portions; the cross-sectional width SW and the outer diameter OD of the tire satisfy a given relationship; the tire has a tread portion with tread rubber; the rubber gauge of the tread rubber is 2 mm or more and less than 5 mm; and the negative ratio of the tread surface of the tread portion is 20% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao KUWAYAMA, Shintaro HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240034102
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including: a pair of bead cores embedded in a pair of bead portions; and a carcass including one or more carcass plies extending in a toroidal form between the pair of bead cores, wherein bead fillers are disposed on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the bead cores, rubber chafers are provided on an outer side in a tire width direction of the bead fillers, and when a storage modulus of the bead fillers is E1?, and a storage modulus of the rubber chafers is E2?, the ratio E2?/E1? satisfies 0.4?E2?/E1??1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro HATANAKA, Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240025210
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including: a pair of bead portions; and a carcass including one or more carcass plies of radially arranged cords that extend in a toroidal form between the pair of bead portions, wherein a reinforcing member is provided so as to extend at an angle with respect to a tire radial direction in an area including a tire maximum width position of the pneumatic tire that stretches in the tire radial direction on an outer side in a tire width direction of the carcass in a reference state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro HATANAKA, Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230331102
    Abstract: A power reception apparatus is installable in a vehicle and configured to receive electric power from a power transmission coil embedded in the ground. The power reception apparatus includes: a relay coil that is arranged on a tired wheel, which includes a tire and a wheel, and includes a first coil and a second coil; a power reception coil; and a power reception circuit. The first coil and the second coil are connected with each other by an electrical conductor. The first coil is arranged inside the tire. The second coil is located so that a distance from a central axis of the tired wheel to the second coil is shorter than a distance from the central axis to the first coil. The power reception coil is located so that when the first coil faces the power transmission coil, the power reception coil faces the second coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato SUMIYA, Shimpei TAKITA, Kazuhiro UDA, Eisuke TAKAHASHI, Nobuhisa YAMAGUCHI, Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Osamu SHIMIZU, Yasumichi WAKAO, Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20230117713
    Abstract: A tire/wheel assembly of the present disclosure includes a tire with a tread portion and a wheel with a rim. The tire is mounted on the rim, and the tire/wheel assembly includes a power reception coil. In the contact patch when the tire/wheel assembly is filled to a prescribed internal pressure and subjected to the maximum load, the rectangle ratio of the ground contact length at a position, in the tire width direction, located 10% of the ground contact width inward in the tread width direction from an edge in the tire width direction to the ground contact length at the center of the contact patch in the tire width direction is 50% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11623266
    Abstract: A sheet material machining system includes a sheet material machining machine which is configured to machine a workpiece to produce a machined workpiece that includes a plurality of products and a residual material. The machined workpiece is configured to be placed on a sorting table. The plurality of products are configured to be placed on a temporary placement table. At least one product among the plurality of products are configured to be placed on a discharge table. A carrier includes an attracting actuator and a mobile actuator. The order management processor is configured to control the carrier and includes a storage configured to memorize a layout of the plurality of products in the workpiece. The plurality of products are associated with an attracting order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAZAKI MAZAK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio Morita, Isao Kuwayama, Tetsu Hattori, Yoshihiko Sakai, Yoshihiro Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20230086747
    Abstract: A wireless power reception system 1 includes: a power reception device 5 including a power reception coil 51 that receives power supplied wirelessly from a power transmission coil 41 of a power transmission device 4 installed in a road surface, at least a portion of the power reception coil 51 being housed in a wheel 3 of a moving body 2; and an onboard device 6 which is installed in the moving body 2 and which is electrically connected to the power reception device 5, wherein the power reception device 5 can transmit received power to the onboard device 6, and the power reception coil 51 includes a stacked plurality of spiral coil layers 52a and 52b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Osamu SHIMIZU, Keizo AKUTAGAWA, Yasumichi WAKAO, Isao KUWAYAMA, Daisuke GUNJI
  • Publication number: 20230088378
    Abstract: A wireless power transfer system 1 includes a power transmission device 2 and a power reception device 3. The power transmission device 2 is a power transmission device 2 installed in a road 4, is provided with a power transmission coil 21 that transmits power wirelessly, and is configured such that when installed in the road 4, the normal line of a coil plane of the power transmission coil 21 is inclined with respect to the normal line of the road surface of the road 4 in a lateral cross section of the road 4. The power reception device 3 is provided with a power reception coil 31 that receives power wirelessly, and at least a portion of the power reception coil 31 is housed in the wheel 6 of the moving body 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Osamu SHIMIZU, Keizo AKUTAGAWA, Yasumichi WAKAO, Isao KUWAYAMA, Daisuke GUNJI
  • Publication number: 20230090157
    Abstract: A wireless power reception system 1 includes: a power reception device 5 including a power reception coil 51 that receives power supplied wirelessly from a power transmission coil 41 of a power transmission device 4 installed in a road surface, at least a portion of the power reception coil 51 being housed in a wheel 3 of a moving body 2; and an onboard device 6 which is installed in the moving body 2 and which is electrically connected to the power reception device 5, wherein the power reception device 5 can transmit received power to the onboard device 6, and the power reception coil 51 has a convex shape pointing downward in a side view as seen from an axial direction of the wheel 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Osamu SHIMIZU, Keizo AKUTAGAWA, Yasumichi WAKAO, Isao KUWAYAMA, Daisuke GUNJI
  • Publication number: 20230001751
    Abstract: A tire and wheel assembly comprises: a tire including a tread portion; a wheel including a rim portion on which the tire is mounted; and a power reception coil, wherein one or more circumferential main grooves extend in a tire circumferential direction on a tread surface of the tread portion, and at least one circumferential main groove satisfies OTD?SBG in a reference state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220416580
    Abstract: A wireless power reception system 1 includes: a power reception device 5 including a power reception coil 51 that receives power supplied wirelessly from a power transmission coil 41 of a power transmission device 4 installed in a road surface, at least a portion of the power reception coil 51 being housed in a wheel 3 of a moving body 2; and a driving device 61 which is installed in the wheel 3 and which drives the wheel 3 with power received by the power reception device 5, wherein the power reception device 5 is provided with a converter 56a and an inverter 56b, at least a portion of the converter 56a and at least a portion of the inverter 56b are housed in the wheel 3, the converter 56a is positioned vertically above the power reception coil 51, and the inverter 56b is positioned vertically above the converter 56a.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Osamu SHIMIZU, Keizo AKUTAGAWA, Yasumichi WAKAO, Isao KUWAYAMA, Daisuke GUNJI
  • Patent number: 11472230
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising a carcass 11, at least one inclined belt layer 13 having a cord extending inclined at an angle of 30° or more relative to the tire circumferential direction, and a tread 15 arranged outward in the tire radial direction of the inclined belt layer 13, wherein a circumferential cord layer 14 arranged inward in the tire radial direction of the tread 15 has a high-rigidity region and a low-rigidity region and the high-rigidity region has a higher negative ratio in a ground contact width of the tread 15 than the low-rigidity region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao Kuwayama
  • Publication number: 20220314711
    Abstract: A tire-wheel assembly includes: a wheel having a rim portion at least part of which is formed of a non-magnetic material; and a tire mounted on the rim portion, in which a tread portion includes a belt formed of a non-magnetic material. The wheel includes, inside the rim portion in a tire radial direction, a container portion that contains a power receiving device that receives electric power supplied wirelessly from outside of the tire in the tire radial direction. The tire includes bead fillers. When BFH represents a radial height of the bead fillers and SH represents a tire cross-sectional heigh, 0.1?BFH/SH?0.5 holds true.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220288974
    Abstract: A tire-wheel assembly and a tire used in the tire-wheel assembly, the tire-wheel assembly includes the tire having a tread portion, a sidewall portion, and a bead portion, and a wheel on which the tire is mounted, the tire-wheel assembly configured such that electric power is wirelessly supplied from outside the tread portion in a tire radial direction to a power receiving device disposed inside the tread portion of the tire in the tire radial direction. The tread portion contains low-loss tread rubber having a loss tangent tan ? of 0.25 or less at 60° C., and a ratio Ts/Tb between a gauge Ts of the sidewall portion at a tire maximum width portion and a bead width Tb of a bead core at a center position in the tire radial direction is 15% or more and 60% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220266702
    Abstract: A wireless power receiving system includes: a power receiving device having a power receiving coil configured to receive electric power supplied wirelessly from a power transmission coil of a power transmission device installed on a road surface, at least part of the power receiving coil being contained in a vehicle wheel; and in-vehicle devices installed in a mobile object, the in-vehicle devices being energizably connected to the power receiving device. The power receiving device transmits the received electric power to the in-vehicle devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION, NSK Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi FUJIMOTO, Takehiro IMURA, Osamu SHIMIZU, Katsuhiro HATA, Keizo AKUTAGAWA, Yasumichi WAKAO, Isao KUWAYAMA, Daisuke GUNJI
  • Publication number: 20220258623
    Abstract: A tire/wheel assembly includes a wheel including a disk and a rim, the wheel having a power reception device attached to an outer peripheral surface of the rim to receive electric power supplied wirelessly from farther outward in a radial direction of the wheel than the rim, and a tire attached so as to cover an outer peripheral surface of the wheel and including a pair of sidewall portions. A gauge of the sidewall portions is 1.5 mm or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220258622
    Abstract: A tire/wheel assembly includes a wheel including a disk and a rim, the wheel having a power reception device attached to an inner peripheral surface of the rim to receive electric power supplied wirelessly from farther outward in a radial direction of the wheel than the rim, and a tire attached so as to cover an outer peripheral surface of the wheel and including a pair of bead portions. Each bead portion in the pair of bead portions includes a bead core and a bead filler, and 0.1?BFW/BDW?0.6, where BFW is a width in a tire width direction at a central position of the bead filler in a tire radial direction, and BDW is a maximum width in the tire width direction of the bead core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220250418
    Abstract: A wireless power reception system includes a power transmission device, a power reception device, a wheel with a rim, and a tire mounted on the rim. The tire includes a bead core and a bead filler, a tire width direction cross-sectional area S1 of the bead filler is one to eight times a tire width direction cross-sectional area S2 of the bead core, the power transmission device can transmit electric power with a frequency of 1000 kHz or less wirelessly, the power reception device is disposed farther inward in the tire radial direction than a tread portion of the tire, the power reception device receives the electric power wirelessly from the power transmission device in a state such that the power transmission device is located farther outward in the tire radial direction than the tire, and the tread portion of the tire is formed from a non-magnetic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao KUWAYAMA