Patents by Inventor Naomichi Funato

Naomichi Funato 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).

  • Publication number: 20120111467
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire with an air pressure corresponding to maximum loading, such that the ground contact shape has a gradually decreasing circumferential direction length from the tire width direction center to the portion corresponding towards the tire width direction outermost circumferential groove, followed by the ground contact shape having a gradually increasing circumferential direction length towards the tire width direction outside. In the ground contact shape, the relationships 0.02?(A?B)/L?0.1, and 0.02?(C?B)/L?0.1 are satisfied, in which A is the maximum length in the circumferential direction of the tire width direction outermost rib, L is the circumferential direction length of the tire width direction center, and B and C are distances in a tire circumferential direction which depend on the width of the tire width direction outermost rib and the width of the second rib from the outside in the tire width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mie NONAKA, Naomichi FUNATO
  • Patent number: 8056591
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is mounted onto a rim with maximum loading, and with an air pressure corresponding to maximum loading, such that the ground contact shape has a gradually decreasing circumferential direction length from the tire width direction center to the portion corresponding towards the tire width direction outermost circumferential groove, followed by the ground contact shape having a gradually increasing circumferential direction length towards the tire width direction outside. In the ground contact shape, the relationships 0.02?(A?B)/L?0.1, and 0.02?(C?B)/L?0.1 are satisfied, in which A is the maximum length in the circumferential direction of the tire width direction outermost rib, L is the circumferential direction length of the tire width direction center, and B and C are distances in a tire circumferential direction which depend on the width of the tire width direction outermost rib and the width of the second rib from the outside in the tire width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Mie Nonaka, Naomichi Funato
  • Publication number: 20070289684
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire with a rib pattern that is able to suppress uneven wear further than conventionally is provided. Uneven wear in the vicinity of the tread edge due to dragging and shoulder scrubbing wear can be suppressed more than conventionally by providing a pneumatic tire in which, under conditions that the pneumatic tire is mounted onto a rim with maximum loading, and with an air pressure corresponding to maximum loading, the ground contact shape has a gradually decreasing circumferential direction length from the tire width direction center to the portion corresponding towards the tire width direction outermost circumferential groove, followed by the ground contact shape having a gradually increasing circumferential direction length towards the tire width direction outside, and such that the following relationships are satisfied: 0.02?(A?B)/L?0.1, and 0.02?(C?B)/L?0.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Mie Nonaka, Naomichi Funato
  • Patent number: D326438
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1992
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuhito Tsukagoshi, Naomichi Funato, Shinji Murase