Patents by Inventor Minami SHIBUYA

Minami SHIBUYA 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).

  • Pneumatic fender
    Patent number: 10968587
    Abstract: In a pneumatic fender, reinforcing layers of a body portion and reinforcing layers of a predetermined range in the longitudinal direction of a fender near a boundary between each hemispherical portion and the body portion are formed by aligning cords of reinforcing layers of the body portion and that of the predetermined range in parallel, and in a neutral state without expansion, the cords of the reinforcing layers of the body portion meet each other and the cords of the reinforcing layers of the predetermined range meet each other, and cord angles A and B are each set to from 15° to 45° with respect to the longitudinal direction of the fender. When the interior of the fender is set to a specified internal pressure, the cord angles A and B increase to extent of a static angle, and the body portion and the predetermined range expand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouko Tsuchiya, Minami Shibuya, Keiichi Hasegawa, Gang Hou, Satoshi Shibayama, Akihiro Iemoto, Shunichi Ono, Michito Kaneko
  • PNEUMATIC FENDER
    Publication number: 20200399847
    Abstract: In a pneumatic fender, reinforcing layers of a body portion and reinforcing layers of a predetermined range in the longitudinal direction of a fender near a boundary between each hemispherical portion and the body portion are formed by aligning cords of reinforcing layers of the body portion and that of the predetermined range in parallel, and in a neutral state without expansion, the cords of the reinforcing layers of the body portion meet each other and the cords of the reinforcing layers of the predetermined range meet each other, and cord angles A and B are each set to from 15° to 45° with respect to the longitudinal direction of the fender. When the interior of the fender is set to a specified internal pressure, the cord angles A and B increase to extent of a static angle, and the body portion and the predetermined range expand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Kouko TSUCHIYA, Minami SHIBUYA, Keiichi HASEGAWA, Gang HOU, Satoshi SHIBAYAMA, Akihiro IEMOTO, Shunichi ONO, Michito KANEKO