Patents by Inventor Norio Ohmoto

Norio Ohmoto 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: 6510881
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire having a tread formed from a rubber strip-stacked body by stacking rubber strip layers composed of a rubber strip wound spirally while continuously joining side surfaces thereof to each other in a tire circumferential direction on the outside of a carcass layer via a belt layer, in which boundary surfaces of the rubber strip of the rubber strip-stacked body forming at least an outermost layers of both shoulder portions of the tread are leaned respectively toward the outside of a tire diameter direction relative to a tire outside direction in a tire width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Takahashi, Norio Ohmoto
  • Patent number: 6125899
    Abstract: In a heavy duty pneumatic radial tire, at least one carcass layer is provided between right and left bead portions and at least two belt layers formed of steel cords which exhibit a breaking elongation of 4% or less are arranged in an outer periphery of the carcass layer in a tread portion. The belt layers are composed of at least one upper belt layer (A) and at least one lower belt layer (B). The upper belt layer (A) has a belt width that is 0.6 times or less a carcass line maximum width SW of the carcass layer at a tire section and the lower belt layer (B) has a belt width such that both end portions thereof extend to tread shoulder portions. An inclination angle of the steel cords of the lower belt layer (B) relative to a tire circumferential direction is set to be larger than that of the upper belt layer (A). A ratio (Mb.sub.2 .multidot.N.sub.2)/( Mb.sub.1 .multidot.N.sub.1) of a product of a bending rigidity Mb.sub.2 per steel cord of the lower belt layer (B) and the number N.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Takahashi, Norio Ohmoto