Patents by Inventor Naohiro OOKAWA

Naohiro OOKAWA 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: 11065918
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes plural land portions that are provided at a tread and that are partitioned by plural circumferential direction grooves that extend along a tire circumferential direction. A lug groove is provided at at least one land portion among the plural land portions and crosses the land portion in a tire width direction. A fine groove is provided at a groove bottom portion of the lug groove, has a narrower groove width than the lug groove, and has a groove bottom face formed with a circular arc shaped profile when viewed in cross-section at right angles to a groove length direction. A coupling curved face joins the groove bottom face and a groove side face at a length direction end portion of the fine groove, to a groove side face of the circumferential direction grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohiro Ookawa
  • Patent number: 10596856
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, blocks 11 each have a block width that is increased from circumferential end portions to a circumferential middle portion of the block 11 in a manner such that widthwise end portions 10 located on both ends in the tread width direction are positioned in a circumferentially intermediate portion of the block 11 and also have the maximum circumferential length that is larger than the maximum width of the block 11, thereby having, in its plan view, a polygonal contour shape that includes end sides 11a located in the circumferential end portions, and circumferential distances a and a1 between a circumferential middle position 11b of each end side 11a of the block 11 and a circumferential middle position 10a of a line L connecting the widthwise end portions 10 of the block 11 are both twice or more of the maximum depth of circumferential grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohiro Ookawa, Masayuki Kurebayashi
  • Publication number: 20160185159
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes plural land portions that are provided at a tread and that are partitioned by plural circumferential direction grooves that extend along a tire circumferential direction. A lug groove is provided at at least one land portion among the plural land portions and crosses the land portion in a tire width direction. A fine groove is provided at a groove bottom portion of the lug groove, has a narrower groove width than the lug groove, and has a groove bottom face formed with a circular arc shaped profile when viewed in cross-section at right angles to a groove length direction. A coupling curved face joins the groove bottom face and a groove side face at a length direction end portion of the fine groove, to a groove side face of the circumferential direction grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohiro OOKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150352903
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, blocks 11 each have a block width that is increased from circumferential end portions to a circumferential middle portion of the block 11 in a manner such that widthwise end portions 10 located on both ends in the tread width direction are positioned in a circumferentially intermediate portion of the block 11 and also have the maximum circumferential length that is larger than the maximum width of the block 11, thereby having, in its plan view, a polygonal contour shape that includes end sides 11a located in the circumferential end portions, and circumferential distances a and a1 between a circumferential middle position 11b of each end side 11a of the block 11 and a circumferential middle position 10a of a line L connecting the widthwise end portions 10 of the block 11 are both twice or more of the maximum depth of circumferential grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naohiro OOKAWA, Masayuki KUREBAYASHI
  • Patent number: D834510
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naohiro Ookawa