Patents by Inventor Masaharu Fukushima

Masaharu Fukushima 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: 9259973
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a tread pattern designed to provide improved heat dissipation properties, wear resistance, and uneven wear resistance. The tire has arranged in a tread (2) two circumferential fine grooves (10) disposed on opposite sides of the equatorial surface (CL) of the tire and extending in the circumferential direction of the tire, and the circumferential fine grooves (10) define a center land section (11). In the center land section (11) are formed oblique fine grooves (12) each having a first small groove (13) extending in the tire's circumferential direction, a second small groove (14) extending obliquely relative to the circumferential direction from one end of the first small groove (13) toward one circumferential fine groove, and a third small groove (15) extending obliquely relative to the circumferential direction from the other end of the first small groove (13) toward the other circumferential fine groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ono, Masaharu Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20110005652
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a tread pattern designed to provide improved heat dissipation properties, wear resistance, and uneven wear resistance. The tire has arranged in a tread (2) two circumferential fine grooves (10) disposed on opposite sides of the equatorial surface (CL) of the tire and extending in the circumferential direction of the tire, and the circumferential fine grooves (10) define a center land section (11). In the center land section (11) are formed oblique fine grooves (12) each having a first small groove (13) extending in the tire's circumferential direction, a second small groove (14) extending obliquely relative to the circumferential direction from one end of the first small groove (13) toward one circumferential fine groove, and a third small groove (15) extending obliquely relative to the circumferential direction from the other end of the first small groove (13) toward the other circumferential fine groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ono, Masaharu Fukushima
  • Publication number: 20100089514
    Abstract: To provide a pneumatic tire in which attainment of durability of a reinforcing layer and improvement of stability of a vehicle are both achieved while restraining degradation of ride comfort and, more specifically, to provide a heavy loading pneumatic tire suitably used in a construction vehicle or the like. A pneumatic tire including a carcass 2 having a body portion 2A extending between bead cores in a troidal shape and a folded-back portion 2B provided continuously therefrom and folded back around the bead cores, and a belt 3 arranged on the outside of the tire in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Masaharu Fukushima
  • Patent number: 6369688
    Abstract: The automatic gang switch having a heat ray sensor is fixedly mounted on a mounting frame having a generally rectangular opening. The length of a housing of the switch is approximately two thirds of that of the generally rectangular opening of the mounting frame, while the width of the housing is approximately equal to that of the generally rectangular opening of the mounting frame. The switch includes a human body detecting section for detecting heat rays emitted from a human body and a circuit section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Abe, Masaharu Fukushima, Shiro Mori, Takahiro Yamanouchi, Hirotoshi Watanabe, Makoto Morimoto, Hideki Kawahara
  • Patent number: 5933947
    Abstract: A metallized film suitable for providing a self-preservative metallized film capacitor is prepared. A metallized stock film strip is provided which includes a dielectric film strip and a plurality of deposited metal segments formed thereon so that the deposited metal segments are generally separated from each other but with an electrical connection extending therebetween. The electrical connection is then removed by a short circuit energy or a subsequent slitting. As a result, a metallized film having metal segments deposited on a dielectric film strip can be produced efficiently while avoiding winding wrinkles and a lowering of the process speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Kakogawa Plastics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Minamizawa, Yutaka Motokawa, Masaharu Fukushima, Tadatomo Nakao, Iwao Matsuoka, Toshiyuki Yanagida
  • Patent number: 5569341
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire, particularly for a construction vehicle, has a carcass ply arranged toroidally between a pair of bead cores, containing rubber coated steel cords disposed radially therein, being turned up around each bead core from the inside to the outside of the tire and the turn-up portion of which around each bead core extends to around 1/2 height of the tire height H. When the radical length of an overlapping portion of the turn-up portion of the carcass ply and the main carcass ply is h.sub.1 and the thickness of the overlapping portion is w.sub.1 within a range of .+-.0.1 H having half height H/2 of the tire height H as the center, the radial length h and the thickness w of a reinforcing rubber material arranged between the turn-up portion of the carcass ply and the main ply satisfy the following formulae(1) 0.2w.sub.1 .ltoreq.w.ltoreq.1.0w.sub.1, and(2) 0.5h.sub.1 .ltoreq.h.ltoreq.1.0h.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Fukushima, Yuichi Nagai
  • Patent number: D350093
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1994
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Masaharu Fukushima
  • Patent number: D371097
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Masaharu Fukushima
  • Patent number: D642114
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeaki Sugimoto, Masaharu Fukushima, Motohiro Iwasaki