Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Tsuji

Noriyuki Tsuji 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: 11654718
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes: an inner annular portion; an outer annular portion; a plurality of coupling portions which couple the inner annular portion and the outer annular portion to each other and are provided independently of one another in a tire circumferential direction; at least one annular overall reinforcing layer embedded entirely in the outer annular portion in a tire width direction; and at least one annular partial reinforcing layer embedded only in a part of the outer annular portion in the tire width direction, wherein the outer annular portion includes a connecting region to which the plurality of coupling portions are connected, and a non-connecting region to which the plurality of coupling portions are not connected, in the tire width direction, and wherein the partial reinforcing layer overlaps the non-connecting region in a tire radial direction when viewed from the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11628689
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes: an inner annular portion; an outer annular portion; a plurality of coupling portions which couple the inner annular portion and the outer annular portion to each other and are provided independently of one another in a tire circumferential direction; at least one annular overall reinforcing layer embedded entirely in the outer annular portion in a tire width direction; and at least one annular partial reinforcing layer embedded only in a part of the outer annular portion in the tire width direction, wherein the outer annular portion includes a connecting region to which the plurality of coupling portions are connected, and a non-connecting region to which the plurality of coupling portions are not connected, in the tire width direction, and wherein the partial reinforcing layer overlaps the non-connecting region in a tire radial direction when viewed from the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki Tsuji
  • Patent number: 11505010
    Abstract: A pneumatic tires includes a tread, a pair of sidewalls, and a pair of bead portions that are arranged at intervals wider than a rim width of a corresponding regular rim in a non-rim-assembled state. Each of the pair of the bead portions includes a bead base at an inner diameter side end, a bead heel, and a bead back surface extending from an outer diameter side end of the bead heel, to the outer diameter side. In the non-rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is formed with a recess that is recessed inward in the width direction. In a rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is in close contact with substantially the entire surface of a radial portion of a rim flange of a regular rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Arakawa, Noriyuki Tsuji, Yutaka Nakamoto
  • Patent number: 11433716
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a pair of bead portions that are arranged at intervals wider than a regular rim width in a non-rim-assembled state. The bead portion includes a rim protector, a bead base, a bead heel, and a bead back surface. In the non-rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is formed with a recess that is recessed inward in the tire width direction. The bead back surface has a second curved portion constituting a deepest portion of the recess and a third curved portion extending inward in the tire width direction from the rim protector. When a height of the deepest portion is H2, a height H8 of a virtual intersection of a curve obtained by extending the second curved portion and a curve obtained by extending the third curved portion is larger than 1.5 times H10 and smaller than 3.0 times H10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Arakawa, Yutaka Nakamoto, Noriyuki Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20220080785
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes: a tire main body; and at least one sound damper. The sound damper is made of a foam material having a plate shape, a size of one surface of the foam material in a longitudinal direction being smaller than that of the other surface. The sound damper is formed by affixing the foam material to a tire inner cavity surface to form a ring shape, with the other surface of the foam material being toward an outer circumference, and end faces of the foam material in the longitudinal direction abut each other and are bonded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Noriyuki TSUJI
  • Patent number: 11235619
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes: an inner annular portion; an outer annular portion; and a plurality of connecting portions connecting the inner and outer annular portions to each other. The first and second connecting portions are arrayed along a tire circumferential direction. The first and second connecting portions have a plate thickness smaller than a plate width and have a plate thickness direction oriented to the tire circumferential direction. When S is a length in the tire width direction and H is a height in a tire radial direction in the first and second connecting portions, an inclination angle K of a centerline of each plate width w of the first and second connecting portions to the tire width direction in intersecting portions of the first and second connecting portions when viewed from the tire circumferential direction satisfies a relationship of 30×(H/S)0.7?K?75×(H/S)0.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20210339581
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a pair of bead portions that are arranged at intervals wider than a regular rim width in a non-rim-assembled state. The bead portions includes a bead base, a bead heel, and a bead back surface. In the non-rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is formed with a recess that is recessed inward in the tire width, a rim flange of the regular rim has a radial portion and a curved portion. In a rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is in close contact with substantially an entire surface of the radial portion. A tire radial distance from an apex of the curved portion to an outer surface of the bead back surface is set so that the outer surface of the bead back surface is separated from the curved portion even in a state where a load is input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yutaka Nakamoto, Koji Arakawa, Noriyuki Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20210339576
    Abstract: A pneumatic tires include a tread, a pair of sidewalls, and a pair of bead portions that are arranged at intervals wider than a rim width of a corresponding regular rim in a non-rim-assembled state. Each of the pair of the bead portions includes a bead heel and a bead back surface. In the non-rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is formed with a recess. The bead back surface has a recess R portion having an arc shape. A center of curvature of the recess R portion is located in a radial range between a radial position that is 2.0 mm to the inner side in the tire radial direction and a radial position that is 9.0 mm to the outer side in the tire radial direction with reference to an outer end surface of a bead core in the tire radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tsuji, Koji Arakawa, Yutaka Nakamoto
  • Publication number: 20210339577
    Abstract: A pneumatic tires include a tread, a pair of sidewalls, and a pair of bead portions that are arranged at intervals wider than a rim width of a corresponding regular rim in a non-rim-assembled state. Each of the pair of bead portions includes a bead heel that curves outwards toward the outer side in the width direction and a bead back surface. In the non-rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is formed with a recess. The bead heel 35 includes a heel R portion having an arc shape. The bead back surface includes a recess R portion having an arc shape. A radius of curvature of the recess R portion is equal to or larger than a radius of curvature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tsuji, Koji Arakawa, Yutaka Nakamoto
  • Publication number: 20210339579
    Abstract: A pneumatic tires includes a tread, a pair of sidewalls, and a pair of bead portions that are arranged at intervals wider than a rim width of a corresponding regular rim in a non-rim-assembled state. Each of the pair of the bead portions includes a bead base at an inner diameter side end, a bead heel, and a bead back surface extending from an outer diameter side end of the bead heel, to the outer diameter side. In the non-rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is formed with a recess that is recessed inward in the width direction. In a rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is in close contact with substantially the entire surface of a radial portion of a rim flange of a regular rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Arakawa, Noriyuki Tsuji, Yutaka Nakamoto
  • Publication number: 20210339580
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a pair of bead portions that are arranged at intervals wider than a regular rim width in a non-rim-assembled state. The bead portion includes a rim protector, a bead base, a bead heel, and a bead back surface. In the non-rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is formed with a recess that is recessed inward in the tire width direction. The bead back surface has a second curved portion constituting a deepest portion of the recess and a third curved portion extending inward in the tire width direction from the rim protector. When a height of the deepest portion is H2, a height H8 of a virtual intersection of a curve obtained by extending the second curved portion and a curve obtained by extending the third curved portion is larger than 1.5 times H10 and smaller than 3.0 times H10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koji Arakawa, Yutaka Nakamoto, Noriyuki Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20210339578
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread, a pair of sidewalls, and a pair of bead portions. Each of a pair of the bead portions includes a bead base, a bead heel, and a bead back surface. In a non-rim-assembled state, the bead back surface is formed with a recess, the bead base is formed to be inclined inward in the tire radial direction toward the inner side in the tire width direction, the bead back surface has a recess R portion and a tangential portion that connects the bead heel and the recess R portion, and in the non-rim-assembled state, a base portion inclination angle of the bead base with respect to a tire axial direction is set to be larger than a tangential portion inclination angle of the tangential portion with respect to the tire radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Tsuji, Koji Arakawa, Yutaka Nakamoto
  • Patent number: 11117422
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes a support structure for supporting a load from a vehicle. The support structure includes an inner annular portion, an outer annular portion concentrically provided on an outer side of the inner annular portion, and a plurality of connecting portions which connect the inner annular portion and the outer annular portion to each other and are provided in a tire circumferential direction independently of one another, the plurality of connecting portions are configured such that elongated plate-like first connecting portions and elongated plate-like second connecting portions are arrayed along the tire circumferential direction, an angle ? and an angle ?, the angles being formed by an inner circumferential surface of the outer annular portion and both side surfaces of each of the connecting portions, both surfaces facing the tire circumferential direction, are 75° or more and 120° or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Noriyuki Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20210070104
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes: an inner annular portion; an outer annular portion provided concentrically on an outer side of the inner annular portion; a plurality of coupling portions which couple the inner annular portion and the outer annular portion to each other and are provided independently of one another in a tire circumferential direction; at least one annular overall reinforcing layer embedded entirely in the outer annular portion in a tire width direction; and at least one annular partial reinforcing layer embedded only in a part of the outer annular portion in the tire width direction, wherein, when viewed from the tire circumferential direction, the partial reinforcing layer overlaps, in a tire radial direction, each of outer connecting portions where the plurality of coupling portions are connected to the outer annular portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Noriyuki Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20210070103
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes: an inner annular portion; an outer annular portion; a plurality of coupling portions which couple the inner annular portion and the outer annular portion to each other and are provided independently of one another in a tire circumferential direction; at least one annular overall reinforcing layer embedded entirely in the outer annular portion in a tire width direction; and at least one annular partial reinforcing layer embedded only in a part of the outer annular portion in the tire width direction, wherein the outer annular portion includes a connecting region to which the plurality of coupling portions are connected, and a non-connecting region to which the plurality of coupling portions are not connected, in the tire width direction, and wherein the partial reinforcing layer overlaps the non-connecting region in a tire radial direction when viewed from the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Noriyuki Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20190184748
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes: an inner annular portion; an outer annular portion; and a plurality of connecting portions connecting the inner and outer annular portions to each other. The first and second connecting portions are arrayed along a tire circumferential direction. The first and second connecting portions have a plate thickness smaller than a plate width and have a plate thickness direction oriented to the tire circumferential direction. When S is a length in the tire width direction and H is a height in a tire radial direction in the first and second connecting portions, an inclination angle K of a centerline of each plate width w of the first and second connecting portions to the tire width direction in intersecting portions of the first and second connecting portions when viewed from the tire circumferential direction satisfies a relationship of 30×(H/S)0.7?K?75×(H/S)0.7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20190070903
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes a support structure for supporting a load from a vehicle. The support structure includes an inner annular portion, an outer annular portion concentrically provided on an outer side of the inner annular portion, and a plurality of connecting portions which connect the inner annular portion and the outer annular portion to each other and are provided in a tire circumferential direction independently of one another, the plurality of connecting portions are configured such that elongated plate-like first connecting portions and elongated plate-like second connecting portions are arrayed along the tire circumferential direction, an angle ? and an angle ?, the angles being formed by an inner circumferential surface of the outer annular portion and both side surfaces of each of the connecting portions, both surfaces facing the tire circumferential direction, are 75° or more and 120° or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Noriyuki Tsuji