Patents by Inventor Kazuma Nishitani
Kazuma Nishitani 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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Publication number: 20120152418Abstract: A manufacturing method of a pneumatic tire in which a tread rubber formed by a nonconductive rubber is arranged in a tread portion, and a conductive portion which is formed by a conductive rubber and reaches a carcass layer or a belt layer from a ground surface is buried in the tread rubber, wherein a step of forming the carcass layer includes a step of forming a strip-like carcass ply by coating a plurality of carcass cords which are arranged in parallel, with a topping rubber constructed by a nonconductive rubber portion which is along an extending direction of the carcass cord, and a conductive rubber portion which is narrower than the nonconductive rubber portion, and a step of lining up a lot of the strip-like carcass plies in a ply width direction so as to bond the strip-like carcass plies sequentially.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.Inventor: Kazuma NISHITANI
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Patent number: 7975741Abstract: A sidewall rubber disposed outside of a carcass layer, reinforcing a portion between beads, in a widthwise direction of the tire is configured from a wide rubber ribbon having a width of 20 to 100 mm wound spirally along a circumferential direction of the tire outward of the tire such that the rubber ribbon is deviated radially outward of the tire.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2006Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuma Nishitani, Shigeru Ohno, Hiroshi Ikegami, Koji Hiramatsu, Katsuhiro Nakatani
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Patent number: 7896996Abstract: In the producing method of the pneumatic tire, a step in which a wide rubber ribbon having a width of 60 to 110 mm is wound in a circumferential direction to form annular bodies is repeated a plurality of times, an inner liner member in which the annular bodies are continuously provided in a widthwise direction is formed, and the inner liner member is disposed on a tire inner peripheral surface as an inner liner layer of a pneumatic tire.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2006Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuma Nishitani
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Patent number: 7850808Abstract: In a pneumatic tire whose tire cross section height is less than 110 mm and which has an inner liner layer disposed inside of a carcass layer, the inner liner layer has a wide rubber ribbon region formed by spirally winding a wide rubber ribbon along a tire circumferential direction, a wide rubber ribbon of an innermost peripheral side forms a tire inner peripheral surface of a region extending at least from the vicinity of an end of a belt layer to a tire cross section maximum width position.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2006Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuma Nishitani
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Publication number: 20100071838Abstract: A double-layer rubber ribbon in which at least one surface of an outer surface is configured by a sheet-like thin rubber ribbon is formed by co-extruding a different color rubber ribbon having a second color different from a side rubber of a first color and the thin rubber ribbon. Further, the double-layer rubber ribbon is wound for one or more turns along a tire circumferential direction in such a manner that the thin rubber ribbon is positioned close to a carcass side. Thereafter, the wound double-layer rubber ribbon is covered by a cover rubber having the first color, and the different color rubber ribbon is exposed by scraping off a portion corresponding to a letter or a line of the cover rubber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2009Publication date: March 25, 2010Applicant: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuma Nishitani
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Patent number: 7641751Abstract: When a sidewall portion is formed with a white line or character having different color from that of a main body rubber, a rubber ribbon is wound along a circumferential direction of the tire a plurality of times, a black sidewall rubber provided with a concave groove extending in the circumferential direction of the tire is formed in a region where the white line or character is to be formed, an integrally extruded white rubber extrudate is fitted into the concave groove, the white rubber extrudate is covered with a black rubber sheet, the rubber sheet is partially cut down to expose the white rubber extrudate.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2006Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuma Nishitani
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Publication number: 20080314505Abstract: A method for manufacturing a tire rubber member, the method comprising: spirally winding a rubber ribbon including a first rubber portion and a second rubber portion, each composed of a rubber having different physical characteristics and joined to each other with a boundary face extending therebetween along a longitudinal direction thereof, along a circumferential direction of a tire so that the second rubber portion is disposed on an outer peripheral side of the first rubber portion, to form the tire rubber member in which a second rubber layer formed with the second rubber portion is built up on the outer periphery of the tire of a first rubber layer formed with the first rubber portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2008Publication date: December 25, 2008Applicant: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuma Nishitani
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Publication number: 20080230164Abstract: A pneumatic tire in which a tread surface is provided with a main groove extending as a straight shape in a tire circumferential direction, and a block row formed by arranging a plurality of blocks facing to the main groove in the tire circumferential direction, the block row has a plurality of first blocks in which a wall surface facing to the main groove is chamfered, and a plurality of second blocks arranged between the first blocks and in which a position in a tire width direction of an edge portion of a wall surface facing to the main groove is differentiated from the first block.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuma Nishitani
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Patent number: 7364635Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a pneumatic tire in which a line, a letter or the like having a different color from a main body rubber is formed in a side wall portion. A manufacturing method of a pneumatic tire in which a portion having a different color from a main body rubber is formed in a side wall portion, is provided with a step of forming a band-like rubber member having a white rubber layer having a different color from a main body rubber, and a cover rubber layer formed in an outer side of the white rubber layer at a fixed thickness and having the same color as the main body rubber, and a step of spirally overlapping and winding a rubber ribbon along a tire peripheral direction so as to bond to both sides in a width direction of the band-like rubber member.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2005Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuma Nishitani
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Publication number: 20070051454Abstract: A producing method of a pneumatic tire includes a step of forming a sidewall rubber by winding a wide rubber ribbon around an outer periphery of a cylindrical carcass ply along a circumferential direction in a state where a central portion of the carcass ply is swelled and deformed radially outward, the wide rubber ribbon is spirally wound so as to be superimposed toward the outer side of the tire such that the wide rubber ribbon is deviated radially outward of the tire, and a radially inner end of the outermost wide rubber ribbon is disposed on a radially inner side of a tire maximum width position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2006Publication date: March 8, 2007Inventor: Kazuma NISHITANI
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Publication number: 20070051449Abstract: The tire cross section height is less than 110 mm. A sidewall rubber disposed in a sidewall portion is formed of a laminated body of a narrow rubber ribbon wound along a circumferential direction of the tire. An outer peripheral surface in a region extending from a shoulder portion of the sidewall rubber to a tire maximum width position is formed of a wide rubber ribbon which is wider than a narrow rubber ribbon and has a thickness of 1.2 to 3.0 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2006Publication date: March 8, 2007Inventor: Kazuma NISHITANI
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Publication number: 20070044885Abstract: In the producing method of the pneumatic tire, a step in which a wide rubber ribbon having a width of 60 to 110 mm is wound in a circumferential direction to form annular bodies is repeated a plurality of times, an inner liner member in which the annular bodies are continuously provided in a widthwise direction is formed, and the inner liner member is disposed on a tire inner peripheral surface as an inner liner layer of a pneumatic tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Inventor: Kazuma NISHITANI
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Publication number: 20070044884Abstract: In a pneumatic tire whose tire cross section height is less than 110 mm and which has an inner liner layer disposed inside of a carcass layer, the inner liner layer has a wide rubber ribbon region formed by spirally winding a wide rubber ribbon along a tire circumferential direction, a wide rubber ribbon of an innermost peripheral side forms a tire inner peripheral surface of a region extending at least from the vicinity of an end of a belt layer to a tire cross section maximum width position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Inventor: Kazuma NISHITANI
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Publication number: 20060237112Abstract: A sidewall rubber disposed outside of a carcass layer, reinforcing a portion between beads, in a widthwise direction of the tire is configured from a wide rubber ribbon having a width of 20 to 100 mm wound spirally along a circumferential direction of the tire outward of the tire such that the rubber ribbon is deviated radially outward of the tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2006Publication date: October 26, 2006Inventors: Kazuma Nishitani, Shigeru Ohno, Hiroshi Ikegami, Koji Hiramatsu, Katsuhiro Nakatani
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Publication number: 20060174995Abstract: When a sidewall portion is formed with a white line or character having different color from that of a main body rubber, a rubber ribbon is wound along a circumferential direction of the tire a plurality of times, a black sidewall rubber provided with a concave groove extending in the circumferential direction of the tire is formed in a region where the white line or character is to be formed, an integrally extruded white rubber extrudate is fitted into the concave groove, the white rubber extrudate is covered with a black rubber sheet, the rubber sheet is partially cut down to expose the white rubber extrudate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2006Publication date: August 10, 2006Inventor: Kazuma Nishitani
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Publication number: 20050236090Abstract: The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a pneumatic tire in which a line, a letter or the like having a different color from a main body rubber is formed in a side wall portion. A manufacturing method of a pneumatic tire in which a portion having a different color from a main body rubber is formed in a side wall portion, is provided with a step of forming a band-like rubber member having a white rubber layer having a different color from a main body rubber, and a cover rubber layer formed in an outer side of the white rubber layer at a fixed thickness and having the same color as the main body rubber, and a step of spirally overlapping and winding a rubber ribbon along a tire peripheral direction so as to bond to both sides in a width direction of the band-like rubber member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2005Publication date: October 27, 2005Inventor: Kazuma Nishitani