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).

  • Patent number: 11427036
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11318795
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11260696
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshikazu Yasunaga, Jiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11104183
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20200307321
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiro Taniguchi, Toshiyuki Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20200262247
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20200262246
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20200009918
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10457102
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20190255888
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20190255889
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Publication number: 20190255890
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 10260921
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Jiro Taniguchi, Keiichi Nakada, Yasuhiro Asano, Hiroshi Hirayama, Kazunori Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190061429
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Yasunaga, Jiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: D848357
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiro Taniguchi, Toshikazu Yasunaga
  • Patent number: D859303
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: D867973
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: D879020
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Sato, Jiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: D885325
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi
  • Patent number: D894099
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Jiro Taniguchi