Patents by Inventor Masahiro Doe

Masahiro Doe 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: 9308700
    Abstract: A tire vulcanizing method reduces consumption energy and increases productivity of vulcanization. This method involves supplying an inert gas to an internal space of the tire via a supply pipe, discharging the gas from the internal space via a return pipe, and supplying the gas from the return pipe to the supply pipe by a rotation type circulation device. A heating device heats the circulated gas. An internal outlet gas temperature sensor detects a temperature of the gas in the return pipe. A controller decreases a rotating speed of the circulation device when the return pipe gas temperature is a rotating speed decrease temperature or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Mizuta, Masahiro Doe, Yasuhiko Fujieda, Masatake Toshima
  • Patent number: 9028738
    Abstract: In a tire vulcanizer having two sets of portions, each of which includes a lower mold, an upper mold, and a center mechanism provided with a bladder, a nitrogen gas heated in a first heating device is supplied to an interior of the bladder of the center mechanism which is placed on the upstream side in the circulating direction of the nitrogen gas. The nitrogen gas discharged from the interior of the bladder of the center mechanism is used for vulcanization and patterning and a temperature thereof is lowered. However, this nitrogen gas is heated again in a second heating device, so that the temperature is increased. Therefore, the nitrogen gas heated in the second heating device is supplied to an interior of the bladder of the center mechanism which is placed on the downstream side in the circulating direction of the nitrogen gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Mizuta, Yasuhiko Fujieda, Masahiro Doe
  • Publication number: 20130062803
    Abstract: A tire vulcanizing method reduces consumption energy and increases productivity of vulcanization. This method involves supplying an inert gas to an internal space of the tire via a supply pipe, discharging the gas from the internal space via a return pipe, and supplying the gas from the return pipe to the supply pipe by a rotation type circulation device. A heating device heats the circulated gas. An internal outlet gas temperature sensor detects a temperature of the gas in the return pipe. A controller decreases a rotating speed of the circulation device when the return pipe gas temperature is a rotating speed decrease temperature or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel Ltd.)
    Inventors: Yuichiro MIZUTA, Masahiro Doe, Yasuhiko Fujieda, Masatake Toshima
  • Publication number: 20120319330
    Abstract: In a tire vulcanizer having two sets of portions, each of which includes a lower mold, an upper mold, and a center mechanism provided with a bladder, a nitrogen gas heated in a first heating device is supplied to an interior of the bladder of the center mechanism which is placed on the upstream side in the circulating direction of the nitrogen gas. The nitrogen gas discharged from the interior of the bladder of the center mechanism is used for vulcanization and patterning and a temperature thereof is lowered. However, this nitrogen gas is heated again in a second heating device, so that the temperature is increased. Therefore, the nitrogen gas heated in the second heating device is supplied to an interior of the bladder of the center mechanism which is placed on the downstream side in the circulating direction of the nitrogen gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Kubushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
    Inventors: Yuichiro MIZUTA, Yasuhiko Fujieda, Masahiro Doe