Patents by Inventor Kazutaka Matsuzawa
Kazutaka Matsuzawa 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: 10688832Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pneumatic tire capable of facilitating heat dissipation of a tread portion thereof to lower temperature at the tread portion. Specifically, the present invention provides a pneumatic tire having in a tread surface at least one circumferential groove extending in the tire circumferential direction and plural lateral grooves, the lateral grooves each opening to the circumferential groove, having a wider groove width than the circumferential groove and extending to be inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction, comprising: a recessed portion formed in a groove wall, facing the corresponding lateral groove, of the circumferential groove; and at least one projecting portion formed at a groove bottom of the circumferential groove between the recessed portions adjacent to each other in the tire circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka Matsuzawa, Shun Oogane, Yuki Kawakami
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Patent number: 9815337Abstract: A tire is a tire in which circumferential grooves, and lug grooves comprising opening portion in tread end and which extend in the tread width direction from the tread end to the circumferential groove, are formed. Projection parts are provided in the groove bottom of the circumferential grooves. The projection parts extend from one side wall forming a circumferential groove to the other side wall opposite the one side wall. Multiple lug grooves are formed at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction. In the tread surface view of the tire, given points of intersection as the points at which a circumferential groove extension that passes through a circumferential groove intersects with a lug groove extension that passes through a lug groove, the projection parts are provided between a first point of intersection and a second point of intersection adjacent to the first point of intersection in the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2013Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka Matsuzawa, Shun Ogane, Yuki Kawakami
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Publication number: 20150151590Abstract: A tire is a tire in which circumferential grooves, and lug grooves comprising opening portion in tread end and which extend in the tread width direction from the tread end to the circumferential groove, are formed. Projection parts are provided in the groove bottom of the circumferential grooves. The projection parts extend from one side wall forming a circumferential groove to the other side wall opposite the one side wall. Multiple lug grooves are formed at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction. In the tread surface view of the tire, given points of intersection as the points at which a circumferential groove extension that passes through a circumferential groove intersects with a lug groove extension that passes through a lug groove, the projection parts are provided between a first point of intersection and a second point of intersection adjacent to the first point of intersection in the circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2013Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka Matsuzawa, Shun Ogane, Yuki Kawakami
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Patent number: 8955568Abstract: A tire for a construction vehicle according to the present invention provides a tire for a construction vehicle having a belt formed by plural layers on the radially outer side of a crown portion of a carcass toroidally extending between a pair of bead portions, in which an outermost belt layer located on the radially outermost side of the belt has a width of 50% or more of a tread width, and a narrow groove is provided such that a distance between an end portion of the outermost belt layer and a bottom portion of the narrow groove is in the range of 15% to 100% of a tread thickness T, where T is a tread thickness at the end portion of the outermost belt layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2010Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Bridgestone CorporationInventor: Kazutaka Matsuzawa
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Publication number: 20130306210Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pneumatic tire capable of facilitating heat dissipation of a tread portion thereof to lower temperature at the tread portion. Specifically, the present invention provides a pneumatic tire having in a tread surface at least one circumferential groove extending in the tire circumferential direction and plural lateral grooves, the lateral grooves each opening to the circumferential groove, having a wider groove width than the circumferential groove and extending to be inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction, comprising: a recessed portion formed in a groove wall, facing the corresponding lateral groove, of the circumferential groove; and at least one projecting portion formed at a groove bottom of the circumferential groove between the recessed portions adjacent to each other in the tire circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutaka MATSUZAWA, Shun OOGANE, Yuki KAWAKAMI
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Publication number: 20120118461Abstract: A tire for a construction vehicle according to the present invention provides a tire for a construction vehicle having a belt formed by plural layers on the radially outer side of a crown portion of a carcass toroidally extending between a pair of bead portions, in which an outermost belt layer located on the radially outermost side of the belt has a width of 50% or more of a tread width, and a narrow groove is provided such that a distance between an end portion of the outermost belt layer and a bottom portion of the narrow groove is in the range of 15% to 100% of a tread thickness T, where T is a tread thickness at the end portion of the outermost belt layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2010Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Kazutaka Matsuzawa
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Publication number: 20110220261Abstract: The present invention is directed to provide a pneumatic tire capable of effectively preventing large collision noise due to simultaneous collision of plural blocks of respective rows with a road surface. Six rows 9, 10, 13 of blocks on a tread surface 1 are defined by five circumferential grooves 2, 3, 4 continuously extending in a tread circumferential direction in a zigzag manner, a plurality of lateral grooves 5, 6, 11 extending in a tread widthwise direction between the circumferential grooves adjacent to each other and between the outermost circumferential grooves 4 and respective tread side edges e. Five circumferential grooves 2, 3, 4 comprise narrow circumferential grooves 2, 4 and a pair of wide circumferential grooves 3 disposed on each side of the tire equator line and having a width greater than that of the narrow circumferential grooves 2, 4. The lateral grooves 5, 6 are inclined with respect to the tread widthwise direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2009Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Kazutaka Matsuzawa
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Publication number: 20090032155Abstract: As to an air bladder having a laminate structure of an inner layer and an outer layer, there is provided a method wherein an air tightness in a joint portion of the inner layer is kept surely and a joint distance between the inner layer and the outer layer is properly configured. A hollow toric-shaped air bladder for a safety tire placed in a tire and filled with a gas and supporting a load applied to the tire by expansion-deformation based on dropping of a tire internal pressure, which has a laminate structure of an inner layer formed by rounding an innerliner member in a toric form and overlapping end portions of the innerliner member with each other at a side of an outer diameter of the toric, and an outer layer comprised of a main reinforcement member covering an outer peripheral face of the inner layer other than the overlapped portion of the innerliner member and a sub reinforcement member covering the overlapped portion including ends of the main reinforcement member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2006Publication date: February 5, 2009Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventor: Kazutaka Matsuzawa
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Publication number: 20060237062Abstract: A valve for a safety tire is provided which allows air to be separately supplied into an inner air chamber and an outer air chamber of a tire having a double structure and which allows air to be separately released from these air chambers. A first hollow stem 22 of a valve 20 includes a hole 34 communicating with an inner air chamber 14, and a hole 35 communicating with an outer air chamber. A valve core 41 is disposed in each of the holes 34 and 35. A detachment-restraining adapter 105 is screwed into the hole 35 at a side opposite to the side at which a tire is disposed. As a result, air supply and air release for the inner air chamber 14, and air supply and air release for the outer air chamber 15 can be separately carried out using a simple structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2004Publication date: October 26, 2006Inventors: Kazutaka Matsuzawa, Masahiko Yamamoto
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Patent number: D622658Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2008Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Bridgestone CorporationInventor: Kazutaka Matsuzawa