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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 11305585
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprising a carcass 12, at least one inclined belt layer 13, at least one first circumferential cord layer 14 arranged inward in the tire radial direction of the inclined belt layer 13, a tread 16 arranged outward in the tire radial direction of the inclined belt layer 13, and a second circumferential cord layer 15 which is arranged outward in the tire radial direction so as to cover a tire width direction end of the inclined belt layer 13, and where X is defined as X=Y×n×m×d, Y is the Young's modulus (GPa) of the cord, n is the number of cords implanted (cords/50 mm), d is the cord diameter (mm), and m is the number of the first circumferential cord layers 14, X is smaller than X of the first circumferential cord layer 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao Kuwayama
  • Patent number: 11235620
    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 lower 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: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao Kuwayama
  • Publication number: 20220024250
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for passenger vehicles of the present disclosure includes a carcass toroidally spanning between a pair of bead portions and including plies of radially arranged cords. A sectional width SW and an outer diameter OD of the tire satisfy a predetermined relational expression. At least one noise reducer is provided on an inner surface of the tire. A ratio L (mm)/S (mm2) is in a range from 0.02 to 1.5, where L (mm) denotes a circumferential length of the noise reducer and S (mm2) denotes a cross-sectional area of the noise reducer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220016943
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for passenger vehicles of the present disclosure includes a carcass toroidally spanning between a pair of bead portions and including plies of radially arranged cords. A sectional width SW and an outer diameter OD of the tire satisfy a predetermined relational expression. The noise reducer is provided on an inner surface of the tire at least in the center region and the shoulder regions. Among thicknesses of the noise reducer measured in a direction perpendicular to the inner surface of the tire, a maximum thickness Tc in the center region is larger than a maximum thickness Ts in the shoulder regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220001706
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for passenger vehicles of the present disclosure includes a carcass toroidally spanning between a pair of bead portions and including plies of radially arranged cords. A sectional width SW (mm) and an outer diameter OD (mm) of the tire satisfy a predetermined relational expression. At least one noise reducer is provided on an inner surface of the tire. The noise reducer is provided at least in the center region and the shoulder region. Among thicknesses of the noise reducer measured in a direction perpendicular to the inner surface of the tire, a maximum thickness Ts in the shoulder regions is larger than a maximum thickness Tc in the center region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200376892
    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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isao KUWAYAMA