Patents by Inventor Ryuhei Sanae

Ryuhei Sanae 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: 12358325
    Abstract: A tire has a tread portion including a first shoulder land region. The first shoulder land region is provided with first shoulder sipes. Each of the first shoulder sipes is provided with a chamfered portion over an entire lengthwise range from a first longitudinal edge to a first tread edge. Each of the chamfered portions includes a first chamfered portion defined between a shoulder center position and the first longitudinal edge and a second chamfered portion defined between the shoulder center position and the first tread edge. The second chamfered portion has a chamfer volume smaller than a chamfer volume of the first chamfered portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nozomi Bamba, Shotaro Abe, Ryuhei Sanae, Sho Nakajima
  • Patent number: 12275278
    Abstract: A tire has a tread portion including a first shoulder land region. The first shoulder land region is provided with first shoulder sipes. Each of the first shoulder sipes is provided with a chamfered portion over an entire lengthwise range from a first longitudinal edge to a first tread edge. Each of the chamfered portions includes a first chamfered portion defined between a shoulder center position and the first longitudinal edge and a second chamfered portion defined between the shoulder center position and the first tread edge. The second chamfered portion has a chamfer volume larger than a chamfer volume of the first chamfered portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shiho Okabayashi, Shotaro Abe, Ryuhei Sanae, Sho Nakajima
  • Patent number: 11865800
    Abstract: A mold includes a tread-forming surface to shape a tread surface. The tread-forming surface can include projections to form circumferential grooves, and land surface-forming portions to form land surfaces. Among the three land surface-forming portions aligned in an axial direction with the projections interposed therebetween, the land surface-forming portion located between the two projections can be a curved land surface-forming portion. A contour of the curved land surface-forming portion can be represented by one or more circular arcs. A boundary between a reference side surface of each projection and the curved land surface-forming portion can be a reference boundary point, and the reference boundary point can be located inward of a reference forming surface of the tread-forming surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Rena Onitsuka, Ryuhei Sanae
  • Patent number: 10946702
    Abstract: A rim guard of a tire has a top, an inner surface, and an outer surface. A contour of the inner surface is represented by a circular arc, and the circular arc has a radius of not less than 20 mm and not greater than 30 mm. A contour of the outer surface is represented by a circular arc, and the circular arc has a radius of not less than 100 mm and not greater than 500 mm. In a radial direction, a position of an outer edge of the outer surface coincides with a cross-sectional width specified position, or the outer edge of the outer surface is located outward of the cross-sectional width specified position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryuhei Sanae, Yoshiaki Kanematsu, Shintaro Tomita, Daisuke Kudo
  • Patent number: 10800120
    Abstract: A tyre mold for curing and molding a tyre includes a plurality of tread segments for molding a tread rubber of the tyre. The plurality of tread segments, upon being connected with one another in a mold circumferential direction, forms a tread molding-surface that is substantially continuous in the mold circumferential direction through parting lines that appear between adjacent tread segments. The parting lines include one or more inclined parting lines inclined with respect to a mold axial direction, and the inclined parting lines extend straightly between ends in the mold axial direction of the tread molding-surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yosuke Komori, Ryuhei Sanae
  • Patent number: 10618355
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion 2 having an outside tread edge Teo and an inside tread edge Tei to be positioned outside and inside, respectively, with respect to a vehicle. The tread portion 2 is axially divided into land regions 4 by four main grooves 3 including an outside shoulder main groove 5, an inside shoulder main groove 6 and two crown main grooves 7. The outside shoulder main groove 5 has a width smaller than the inside shoulder main groove 6 and the crown main grooves 7. The land portions 4 include an inside shoulder land region 10 provided with inside shoulder lateral grooves 17. Each of the land regions 4 is provided with sipes 20 each extending across the entire width of the land region and having a width less than 3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryuhei Sanae
  • Patent number: 10471776
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion provided with main grooves extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction, the main grooves include an outboard shoulder main groove and an outboard crown main groove between which an outboard middle land region is defined. The outboard middle land region is provided with outboard middle transverse grooves having a shallow groove section and a deep groove section. The outboard middle transverse grooves include first and second outboard middle transverse grooves that are arranged alternately in the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryuhei Sanae
  • Patent number: 9764596
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided in a tread portion 2 with shoulder main grooves 3 and 4 and a center main groove 5 and divided into shoulder land portions 6 and 7 and crown land portions 8 and 9. The total width of the shoulder main grooves 3 and 4 and the center main groove 5 is 24% to 28% of the tread width TW. The crown land portions 8 and 9 are not provided with a groove having a width of not less than 2 mm and extending across the entire width of the crown land portion, but provided with a plurality of crown sipes 10 having a width of less than 2 mm. The crown sipes 10 include first sipes 11 comprising a lateral direction part 11a extending parallel with the tire axial direction and an oblique part 11b inclined with respect to the lateral direction part 11a. The ratio ?Ly/?Ls of the sum ?Ly of the lengths Ly of the lateral direction parts 11a and the sum ?Ls of the lengths Ls of the crown sipes 10 is not more than 0.15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryuhei Sanae
  • Patent number: 9150056
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has: a circumferential groove on each side of the tire equator; oblique grooves extending from the circumferential groove while inclining to one circumferential direction; and lug grooves extending axially outwardly beyond the tread edges from positions axially outside the circumferential groove while inclining to the one circumferential direction. The lug grooves include: a first lug groove comprising an axially inner steeply-inclined part and an axially outer mildly-inclined part; and a second lug groove extending along the mildly-inclined part. The axially inner end of the first lug groove is at a distance La of 8 to 12% of the tread width from the circumferential groove. The steeply-inclined part inclines at an angle larger than an inclination angle of the oblique grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryuhei Sanae
  • Patent number: D676799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventor: Ryuhei Sanae
  • Patent number: D726098
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryuhei Sanae
  • Patent number: D769794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Kujime, Ryuhei Sanae
  • Patent number: D786774
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryuhei Sanae
  • Patent number: D789280
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Ryuhei Sanae