Patents by Inventor Jiro Taniguchi
Jiro Taniguchi 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).
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Patent number: 11427036Abstract: A pneumatic tire according to the embodiment includes a land portion 20 provided on a tread portion, a plurality of sipes 30 provided on the land portion 20, and at least one concave portion 34 disposed between two adjacent sipes 30. Each of the sipes 30 has, at parts in a sipe longitudinal direction, bottom protrusions 42, 44, 46 protruding from a bottom surface of the sipe 30 toward a tread surface. The concave portion 34 is provided close to the bottom protrusions 42, 44, 46.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11318795Abstract: In a pneumatic tire which is formed with plural shallow grooves 40 and plural recesses 32 in a tread and in which the plural shallow grooves 40 extend in parallel, the plural shallow grooves 40 form a saw teeth shape as a cross-sectional shape of the tread in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the shallow grooves 40, portions corresponding to apexes of the saw teeth shape are formed as edges 44, and the recess 32 is formed between the two edges 44.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11260696Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes: a plurality of shoulder blocks that are provided in a side portion, defined by a shoulder main groove extending in a tire circumferential direction and a shoulder lateral groove extending in a tire width direction, and disposed side by side in the tire circumferential direction; a rib that is provided in the side portion, and extends in the tire circumferential direction along the shoulder blocks; and a projection that is provided in the side portion, and extends from the rib toward the shoulder blocks.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventors: Toshikazu Yasunaga, Jiro Taniguchi
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Patent number: 11104183Abstract: Groove widths of center main grooves are larger than groove widths of inner and outer main grooves. Plurality of lateral grooves are formed at intervals in a tire circumferential direction so as to define inner shoulder blocks belonging to an inner shoulder row. A first raised portion connecting a pair of inner shoulder blocks to each other is formed in the lateral grooves every one other on an inner main groove side. A depth of the lateral groove in the first raised portion is smaller than the depth of the lateral groove in other portions. A second raised portion is formed on the outer main groove in a region defined by an imaginary line connecting an outer intermediate block and an outer shoulder block. A depth of the outer main groove in the second raised portion is smaller than that of the outer main groove in other portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20200307321Abstract: A sipe is defined by a wall surface including a first side surface and a second side surface and that face each other with a gap therebetween. The first and second side surfaces each include a first portion on the surface side of the land section, a second portion on the bottom side of the sipe, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion of the first side surface and the first portion of the second side surface have complementary shapes. The first portion of the first side surface and the first portion of the second side surface each have a shape having an amplitude in the sipe width direction from one end to the other end in the ripe extending direction, the amplitude gradually decreasing toward the bottom of the sipe from the surface of the land section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventors: Jiro Taniguchi, Toshiyuki Ohashi
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Publication number: 20200262247Abstract: A pneumatic tire according to the embodiment includes a land portion 20 provided on a tread portion, a plurality of sipes 30 provided on the land portion 20, and at least one concave portion 34 disposed between two adjacent sipes 30. Each of the sipes 30 has, at parts in a sipe longitudinal direction, bottom protrusions 42, 44, 46 protruding from a bottom surface of the sipe 30 toward a tread surface. The concave portion 34 is provided close to the bottom protrusions 42, 44, 46.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20200262246Abstract: In a pneumatic tire which is formed with plural shallow grooves 40 and plural recesses 32 in a tread and in which the plural shallow grooves 40 extend in parallel, the plural shallow grooves 40 form a saw teeth shape as a cross-sectional shape of the tread in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the shallow grooves 40, portions corresponding to apexes of the saw teeth shape are formed as edges 44, and the recess 32 is formed between the two edges 44.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20200009918Abstract: Groove widths of center main grooves are larger than groove widths of inner and outer main grooves. Plurality of lateral grooves are formed at intervals in a tire circumferential direction so as to define inner shoulder blocks belonging to an inner shoulder row. A first raised portion connecting a pair of inner shoulder blocks to each other is formed in the lateral grooves every one other on an inner main groove side. A depth of the lateral groove in the first raised portion is smaller than the depth of the lateral groove in other portions. A second raised portion is formed on the outer main groove in a region defined by an imaginary line connecting an outer intermediate block and an outer shoulder block. A depth of the outer main groove in the second raised portion is smaller than that of the outer main groove in other portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Patent number: 10457102Abstract: Groove widths of center main grooves are larger than groove widths of inner and outer main grooves. Plurality of lateral grooves are formed at intervals in a tire circumferential direction so as to define inner shoulder blocks belonging to an inner shoulder row. A first raised portion connecting a pair of inner shoulder blocks to each other is formed in the lateral grooves every one other on an inner main groove side. A depth of the lateral groove in the first raised portion is smaller than the depth of the lateral groove in other portions. A second raised portion is formed on the outer main groove in a region defined by an imaginary line connecting an outer intermediate block and an outer shoulder block. A depth of the outer main groove in the second raised portion is smaller than that of the outer main groove in other portions.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20190255888Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion, a sidewall portion, a buttress portion provided between the tread portion and the sidewall portion, multiple first protrusions provided to the buttress portion and spaced in a tire circumferential direction, and multiple second protrusions provided to the buttress portion in spaces between the first protrusions situated adjacently in the tire circumferential direction. The first protrusions have a larger area of top surfaces than the second protrusions and a higher protruding height from the buttress portion than the second protrusions. The second protrusions are provided with recessed grooves that sink below top surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20190255889Abstract: A first block 20 and a second block 30 are aligned in a tire circumferential direction with a groove being interposed therebetween. The first block 20 has a first projected section 22 extending toward the second block 30. The second block 30 has a second projected section 32 extending toward the first block 20. The first projected section 22 and the second projected section 32 overlap each other in a tire width direction. Two-step tapered sections 50, 60 are formed at ends of the first projected section 22 and the second projected section 32. The two-step tapered sections 50, 60 include first tapered surfaces 51, 61 on a ground contact surface side and second tapered surfaces 52, 62 on a groove bottom side. Inclination angles of the first tapered surfaces 51, 61 are larger than inclination angles of the second tapered surfaces 52, 62.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Publication number: 20190255890Abstract: The present invention is characterized that a first block 20 in a shape of having a projected section 22 that extends in a tire circumferential direction and a second block 30 in a different shape from the first block 20 are alternately aligned in the tire circumferential direction to forma block row, that two of the block rows are famed, and that the two second blocks 30 are arranged on both sides in a tire width direction of the projected section 22 of the first block 20.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Patent number: 10260921Abstract: A connection terminal is on a flange of a thermal flow meter. A terminal connection part has a first and a second bent part. The first bent part is bent from a first direction to a second direction. The second bent part has is bent from the first bent part to a third direction. The first and second bent parts are formed such that when connection pin parts of a plurality of the connection terminals and terminal connection parts of the plurality of connection terminals are projected onto a first imaginary plane, an imaginary line L extending along a first direction passing through the projection areas of each of the terminal connection parts of the plurality of connection terminals passes between the projection areas of the connection pin parts from among the connection pin parts of the plurality of connection terminals, that are positioned on both sides.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Jiro Taniguchi, Keiichi Nakada, Yasuhiro Asano, Hiroshi Hirayama, Kazunori Suzuki
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Publication number: 20190061429Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes: a plurally of shoulder blocks that are provided in a side portion, defined by a shoulder main groove extending in a tire circumferential direction and a shoulder lateral groove extending in a tire width direction, and disposed side by side in the tire circumferential direction; a rib that is provided in the side portion, and extends in the tire circumferential direction along the shoulder blocks; and a projection that is provided in the side portion, and extends from the rib toward the shoulder blocks.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshikazu Yasunaga, Jiro Taniguchi
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Patent number: D848357Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jiro Taniguchi, Toshikazu Yasunaga
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Patent number: D859303Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Patent number: D867973Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Patent number: D879020Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshiki Sato, Jiro Taniguchi
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Patent number: D885325Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Jiro Taniguchi
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Patent number: D894099Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Jiro Taniguchi