Patents by Inventor Kenichi Uesaka

Kenichi Uesaka 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: 9845385
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rubber composition that can enhance the fuel economy, wet-grip performance, abrasion resistance, and kneading processability in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire using this rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition that contains a rubber component and silica, wherein the rubber component contains, based on 100% by mass of the rubber component, 10 to 70% by mass of a high-cis polybutadiene having a cis content of 95% by mass or more and satisfying the following requirements (A) to (C): (A) a Mooney viscosity (ML) of 40 to 49; (B) a molecular weight distribution (weight-average molecular weight (Mw)/number-average molecular weight (Mn)) of 3.0 to 3.9; and (C) an index (n-value in Expression (1) below) of velocity dependence of Mooney viscosity of 2.3 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Mabuchi, Tatsuhiro Tanaka, Kazuyuki Nishioka, Kenichi Uesaka
  • Publication number: 20170225512
    Abstract: According to a production method of a rubber composition for tire of the present invention comprising a rubber component (A) comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of a natural rubber and a synthetic diene rubber, a filler, a coupling agent (D) of (CpH2p+1O)3—Si—(CH2)q—S—CO—CkH2k+1, and a vulcanizing agent (E) comprising a vulcanizer and a vulcanization accelerator, the method comprising: a step X1 of kneading all amount of A, a part of the filler and a part of D, a step X2 of kneading the kneaded product of step X1, the remaining amount of the filler and D, and a step F of kneading the kneaded product of step X2 and E, it is possible to produce a rubber composition for tire in which fuel efficiency and abrasion resistance are improved in a good balance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ayuko YAMANA, Yuka YOKOYAMA, Masako NAKATANI, Takashi MIKI, Takuya HORIGUCHI, Yoichi MIZUNO, Takahiro KAWACHI, Noboru OKABE, Natsuki SUGIMOTO, Kenichi UESAKA, Tetsuya MAEKAWA, Yumi SUZUKI, Fumiya KATO
  • Publication number: 20160264772
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pneumatic tire provided with a tread formed from a rubber composition that can achieve balanced improvements in fuel economy and wet-grip performance. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire provided with a tread formed from a rubber composition, the rubber composition containing a rubber component, silica, and a specific silane coupling agent, the rubber component containing, based on 100% by mass of the rubber component, not less than 5% by mass of a conjugated diene polymer containing a constituent unit based on a conjugated diene and a specific constituent unit, at least one terminal of the polymer being modified with a specific compound, the rubber composition containing the silica in an amount of 5 to 150 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki NISHIOKA, Kenichi UESAKA, Takahiro KAWACHI, Masako NAKATANI, Tatsuhiro TANAKA, Fumiya KATO
  • Publication number: 20160118956
    Abstract: In a surface acoustic wave resonator, a first IDT electrode defining a first IDT and a second IDT electrode defining a second IDT are located on a first principal surface of a piezoelectric substrate. A direction of an electric field applied to the first IDT electrode and a direction of an electric field applied to the second IDT electrode are opposite to each other with respect to a direction of a projected axis resulting from projecting a c-axis of the piezoelectric substrate to the first principal surface of the piezoelectric substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Takashi KIHARA, Kenichi UESAKA, Ryo NAKAGAWA
  • Patent number: 9315647
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rubber composition that can enhance the fuel economy, wet-grip performance, abrasion resistance, and processability in a balanced manner, and also provides a pneumatic tire using this rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition that contains a rubber component, silica, and a compound represented by formula (1) below, wherein the rubber component contains, based on 100% by mass of the rubber component, not less than 5% by mass of a conjugated diene polymer containing a constituent unit based on a conjugated diene and a constituent unit represented by formula (I) below, at least one terminal of the polymer being modified with a specific compound; and an amount of the silica is 5 to 150 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoji Imoto, Kenichi Uesaka, Takafumi Taguchi, Naoya Omura, Tetsuya Kunisawa, Satomi Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 9236850
    Abstract: A signal separation device is a duplexer in which a reception frequency band is located at higher frequencies than a transmission frequency band. A series arm of a ladder transmission filter includes a plurality of series arm resonators, and parallel arms respectively include parallel arm resonators. The parallel arm resonators include the parallel arm resonators having resonant frequencies lower than those of the series arm resonators and the parallel arm resonator that has a resonant frequency which is located within the reception frequency band and which is higher than the resonant frequency of the series arm resonators and that has a lower capacitance than the series arm resonators and the parallel arm resonators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Uesaka
  • Patent number: 9231557
    Abstract: A duplexer includes a transmitting filter including serial resonators and parallel resonators connected in a ladder configuration, and a receiving filter. A resonator of the serial resonators and the parallel resonators in the transmitting filter that is arranged closest to a common terminal of the transmitting filter and the transmitting filter includes a surface acoustic wave resonator, and at least one resonator excluding the resonator that is arranged closest to the common terminal includes a film bulk acoustic wave resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiichi Umeda, Kenichi Uesaka, Takashi Miyake
  • Patent number: 9181413
    Abstract: The invention provides a rubber composition that can enhance fuel economy, wet-grip performance, abrasion resistance, and handling stability in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire using this composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Taguchi, Kenichi Uesaka, Yoji Imoto, Satomi Yamauchi, Yoshihiro Kagawa
  • Patent number: 9124243
    Abstract: A surface acoustic wave filter device uses a Rayleigh wave as a main mode, and includes a ladder type surface acoustic wave filter unit. A thickness of a dielectric layer in a surface acoustic wave resonator configuring a series arm resonator is different from thickness of a dielectric layer in a surface acoustic wave resonator configuring a parallel arm resonator. A propagation orientation of a surface acoustic wave in the surface acoustic wave resonator configuring the series arm resonator is different from a propagation orientation of a surface acoustic wave in the surface acoustic wave resonator configuring the parallel arm resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tamasaki, Kenichi Uesaka
  • Patent number: 9012560
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rubber composition that can enhance the fuel economy, wet-grip performance, and abrasion resistance in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire using this rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition that contains a rubber component, silica, and a silane coupling agent, wherein the rubber component contains, based on 100% by mass of the rubber component, not less than 5% by mass of a conjugated diene polymer containing a constituent unit based on a conjugated diene and a constituent unit represented by formula (I) below, at least one terminal of the polymer being modified with a specific compound; an amount of the silica is 5 to 150 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component; and the silane coupling agent contains a mercapto group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kunisawa, Tsuyoshi Tsuchida, Kenichi Uesaka, Isamu Tsumori, Reika Otake, Noboru Okabe, Naoya Omura, Tatsuhiro Tanaka, Takafumi Taguchi, Kenya Watanabe, Toru Iizuka
  • Patent number: 8846791
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a tire rubber composition excellent in performances such as silica dispersibility and processability. The present invention relates to a tire rubber composition, comprising: a rubber component that contains an epoxidized natural rubber; silica; and a silane coupling agent, wherein the amount of the epoxidized natural rubber in 100% by mass of the rubber component is 15% by mass or more, the silica has a CTAB specific surface area of 180 m2/g or more and a BET specific surface area of 185 m2/g or more, and the silane coupling agent contains a mercapto group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Hattori, Ai Matsuura, Michio Hirayama, Kenichi Uesaka
  • Publication number: 20140228500
    Abstract: Provided are a rubber composition for a tire capable of improving fuel economy, wet grip performance, abrasion resistance, and processability, and a pneumatic tire including the composition. Included is a rubber composition for a tire including: a diene polymer; silica; and a compound of formula (I) below, the diene polymer being a modified diene polymer obtained by reacting components (A) and (B), the amount of the compound of formula (I) being 0.1-10 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, the component (A) being an active alkali metal-terminated conjugated diene polymer obtained by polymerizing a conjugated diene monomer alone or with an aromatic vinyl monomer, in the presence of a component (C), the component (B) being a modifying agent containing a functional group, and the component (C) being a chemical species obtained by reacting an organic alkali metal compound with a compound of formula (1) below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Uesaka
  • Publication number: 20140206793
    Abstract: Provided are: a rubber composition that improves fuel economy, wet grip performance, and dry grip performance together while maintaining the balance between them; and a pneumatic tire whose component (particularly tread) includes the rubber composition. The invention relates to a rubber composition containing: a rubber component containing a copolymer; and a silica, wherein the copolymer is obtained by copolymerization of 1,3-butadiene, styrene, and a compound of formula (I) below, has an amino group at a first chain end and a functional group containing at least one atom selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, oxygen, and silicon at second chain end, and has a Mw of 1.0×105-2.5×106, and the silica has an average length W1 between branched particles Z-Z inclusive of the branched particles Zs of 30-400 nm, wherein the branched particles Zs are each adjacent to at least three particles; wherein R1 represents a C1-C10 hydrocarbon group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Okabe, Kenichi Uesaka
  • Publication number: 20140197903
    Abstract: A signal separation device is a duplexer in which a reception frequency band is located at higher frequencies than a transmission frequency band. A series arm of a ladder transmission filter includes a plurality of series arm resonators, and parallel arms respectively include parallel arm resonators. The parallel arm resonators include the parallel arm resonators having resonant frequencies lower than those of the series arm resonators and the parallel arm resonator that has a resonant frequency which is located within the reception frequency band and which is higher than the resonant frequency of the series arm resonators and that has a lower capacitance than the series arm resonators and the parallel arm resonators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi UESAKA
  • Publication number: 20140187707
    Abstract: Provided are: a rubber composition that improves fuel economy and wet grip performance together while maintaining the balance between them; and a pneumatic tire whose component (in particular tread) includes the rubber composition. The invention relates to a rubber composition containing: a rubber component containing a copolymer; silica; and a diene rubber gel bearing a hydroxyl group, wherein the copolymer is obtained by copolymerization of 1,3-butadiene, styrene, and a compound represented by formula (I) below, has an amino group at a first chain end and a functional group containing at least one atom selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, oxygen, and silicon at a second chain end, and has a weight average molecular weight of 1.0×105-2.5×106, and the diene rubber gel has a Tg of ?40 to ?10° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Okabe, Kenichi Uesaka
  • Patent number: 8686085
    Abstract: The present invention has its object to provide a rubber composition having excellent low-exothermic property and high strength together, and a pneumatic tire produced using the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition which contains a rubber component and 10 to 150 parts by mass of silica per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. The rubber component contains a butadiene rubber modified by a compound represented by the formula (1): wherein, R1, R2 and R3 are the same or different and independently represent an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a silyloxy group, an acetal group, a carboxyl group, a mercapto group, or a derivative thereof; R4 and R5 are the same or different and independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; and n represents an integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Uesaka, Toshiro Matsuo
  • Publication number: 20140027042
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a pneumatic tire, including the steps of preparing a polymer layer stack formed of a first layer made of a styrene-isobutylene-styrene triblock copolymer and having a thickness of 0.05 mm to 0.6 mm and a second layer made of an epoxidized styrene-butadiene-styrene triblock copolymer and having a thickness of 0.01 mm to 0.3 mm, molding a raw tire with the polymer layer stack bonded to the inner side of the tire as an inner liner, arranging the raw tire in a mold and vulcanizing the tire under pressure from a bladder, and cooling a vulcanized tire at 50° C. to 120° C. for 10 seconds to 300 seconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi Uesaka, Mutsuki Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20140018490
    Abstract: The invention provides a rubber composition that can enhance fuel economy, wet-grip performance, abrasion resistance, and handling stability in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire using this composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takafumi Taguchi, Kenichi Uesaka, Yoji Imoto, Satomi Yamauchi, Yoshihiro Kagawa
  • Publication number: 20140011910
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rubber composition that can enhance the fuel economy, wet-grip performance, abrasion resistance, and kneading processability in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire using this rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition that contains a rubber component and silica, wherein the rubber component contains, based on 100% by mass of the rubber component, 10 to 70% by mass of a high-cis polybutadiene having a cis content of 95% by mass or more and satisfying the following requirements (A) to (C): (A) a Mooney viscosity (ML) of 40 to 49; (B) a molecular weight distribution (weight-average molecular weight (Mw)/number-average molecular weight (Mn)) of 3.0 to 3.9; and (C) an index (n-value in Expression (1) below) of velocity dependence of Mooney viscosity of 2.3 to 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Mabuchi, Tatsuhiro Tanaka, Kazuyuki Nishioka, Kenichi Uesaka
  • Publication number: 20140011939
    Abstract: The present invention provides a rubber composition capable of enhancing the fuel economy, wet-grip performance, abrasion resistance, handling stability, and processability in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire using this rubber composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Iizuka, Kenichi Uesaka, Hiroshi Ito, Yoshihiro Kagawa, Yoji Imoto