Patents by Inventor Satoshi Iyanagi

Satoshi Iyanagi 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: 20230264446
    Abstract: A tire production device includes a supply unit to supply a ribbon strip molded into a ribbon shape; and a tire molding unit to stick the ribbon strip onto an outer periphery of a drum having an inner peripheral shape of a tire, while rotating the drum, in which the supply unit has a sticking position at which the ribbon strip is stuck onto the outer periphery of the drum. The tire molding unit includes: the drum with a horizontal rotation axis; a turning table that turns the drum around a vertical axis while maintaining a horizontal rotation axis of the drum; and a parallel movement mechanism provided on the turning table to move the drum in parallel along a horizontal surface set to the turning table, and in which the rotation axis extends in a tangential direction centered on the axis line about which the turning table turns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi IYANAGI, Toshiki NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20210138749
    Abstract: A tire forming apparatus including: a drum spindle body; a plurality of arms arranged in annular shape on an outer circumferential side of the drum spindle body; and pushing means configured to push the arms in a direction approaching an unvulcanized tire member, along an extending direction of the drum spindle body, wherein each arm includes: a slidable contact portion provided on one end side of the arm and configured to slidably contact the pushing means; a press portion provided on the other end side of the arm and configured to contact the unvulcanized tire member and press the unvulcanized tire member; and a connecting portion provided between the slidable contact portion and the press portion in the arm extending direction and connected to the drum spindle body, on the drum spindle body side with respect to a line segment connecting the slidable contact portion and the press portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi IYANAGI
  • Publication number: 20200338846
    Abstract: Provided is a tire molding device to mold an unvulcanized tire, including a spindle, and a drum mechanism disposed on an outer peripheral side of the spindle, the drum mechanism includes a first half drum fixed on one end side of the spindle, and a second half drum that is not supported by the spindle and is connected to the spindle closer to the other end side of the spindle than the first half drum, and the spindle moves along an axial direction of the spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi IYANAGI
  • Patent number: 10414110
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of pressure rolls is displaced around the shaft member and pressurizes the tire constituent member. Each of a plurality of supporting parts supports the pressure roll rotatably from the inside of the pressure roll and is displaced integrally with the pressure roll. A plurality of pressure holes are formed in a plurality of points of the shaft member corresponding to positions of the plurality of pressure rolls so as to extend in the pressurization direction for the tire constituent member. Each of a plurality of moving members projects in the pressurization direction from the pressure hole so as to pressurize the pressure roll. Each of a plurality of supply pipes is arranged in the inside space around the shaft member so as to each supply the pressurizing medium for pressurizing the moving member into the pressure hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Iyanagi
  • Patent number: 10279555
    Abstract: Even when a radial length of a swing arm is increased, no gap is generated between adjacent segments, and tires of various sizes can be handled while roundness of a drum is maintained. An expandable molding drum has a plurality of segments constituting a circumferential surface, the molding drum having a plurality of swing arms having one end portion swingably connected to an outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical slider externally fitted with a drum shaft and having the other end portion swingably connected to the segment and expanding/contracting the segment along with movement of the slider in a drum shaft direction, and adjacent end portions of one end portions of the swing arms being swingably connected to the outer circumferential surface of the slider at intervals from each other in the drum shaft direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Iyanagi
  • Patent number: 10220582
    Abstract: A space required for forming a cylindrical carcass band is reduced and productivity of carcass band forming is improved. A first forming drum (21) forms a cylindrical carcass ply (3). A second forming drum (22) forms a cylindrical member (7) by forming a cylindrical inner liner (4) and combining the inner liner (4) with the carcass ply (3). A third forming drum (23) forms a cylindrical side member (5) a carcass band (8) by forming a cylindrical side member (5) and combining the side member (5) with the cylindrical member (7). A conveying device (30) conveys the carcass ply (3) from the first forming drum (21) to the second forming drum (22) and conveys the cylindrical member (7) from the second forming drum (22) to the third forming drum (23). The third forming drum (23) is arranged below an arrangement space for the first forming drum (21) and the second forming drum (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Iyanagi, Masato Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20170087785
    Abstract: Each of a plurality of pressure rolls is displaced around the shaft member and pressurizes the tire constituent member. Each of a plurality of supporting parts supports the pressure roll rotatably from the inside of the pressure roll and is displaced integrally with the pressure roll. A plurality of pressure holes are formed in a plurality of points of the shaft member corresponding to positions of the plurality of pressure rolls so as to extend in the pressurization direction for the tire constituent member. Each of a plurality of moving members projects in the pressurization direction from the pressure hole so as to pressurize the pressure roll. Each of a plurality of supply pipes is arranged in the inside space around the shaft member so as to each supply the pressurizing medium for pressurizing the moving member into the pressure hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi IYANAGI
  • Publication number: 20160121568
    Abstract: A space required for forming a cylindrical carcass band is reduced and productivity of carcass band forming is improved. A first forming drum (21) forms a cylindrical carcass ply (3). A second forming drum (22) forms a cylindrical member (7) by forming a cylindrical inner liner (4) and combining the inner liner (4) with the carcass ply (3). A third forming drum (23) forms a cylindrical side member (5) a carcass band (8) by forming a cylindrical side member (5) and combining the side member (5) with the cylindrical member (7). A conveying device (30) conveys the carcass ply (3) from the first forming drum (21) to the second forming drum (22) and conveys the cylindrical member (7) from the second forming drum (22) to the third forming drum (23). The third forming drum (23) is arranged below an arrangement space for the first forming drum (21) and the second forming drum (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi IYANAGI, Masato IWASAKI
  • Publication number: 20160023415
    Abstract: Even when a radial length of a swing arm is increased, no gap is generated between adjacent segments, and tires of various sizes can be handled while roundness of a drum is maintained. An expandable molding drum has a plurality of segments constituting a circumferential surface, the molding drum having a plurality of swing arms having one end portion swingably connected to an outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical slider externally fitted with a drum shaft and having the other end portion swingably connected to the segment and expanding/contracting the segment along with movement of the slider in a drum shaft direction, and adjacent end portions of one end portions of the swing arms being swingably connected to the outer circumferential surface of the slider at intervals from each other in the drum shaft direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventor: Satoshi IYANAGI
  • Publication number: 20120318443
    Abstract: A production device of a rubber band body includes: an extruder; and a pair of rollers for rolling a rubber member from the extruder between rolling areas of rollers to form a rubber band body, wherein a rolling area of at least one of the pair of rollers is configured by a circumferential groove formed in the outer periphery surface of the roller and extending over the entire periphery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Iyanagi, Masaoki Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8021507
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tire building, and a building system, process setup method and manufacturing method for a tire built by this tire building drum, which can suppress investment cost of the drum core of the tire building drum used in a tire building system for building tires in different sizes, and to shrink an inventory of reserve drum cores. Plural distance pieces having the same thickness and end pieces forming the both end portions in the width direction are aligned in the width direction of the drum core to configure plural rigid segment which constitute the tire building drum. The distance pieces which are detachably configured are so arranged that their thickness direction face in the width direction of the drum core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Iyanagi
  • Patent number: 7704344
    Abstract: Tire building drum and tire building method, capable of assembling tire component members with high accuracy. A tire building drum is used, which includes at least one core body, which is disposed at an axial inside of a pair of bead lock means, and which comprises a plurality of sheets of rigid support members disposed in a toroidal shape and adapted to be displaced and thereby expanded or contracted. Bead cores are locked by the bead lock means, respectively, and a center portion of a carcass band is bulged while displacing the bead lock means close to each other. Back side portions of the carcass band are folded to radial outsides around the bead cores, respectively. The core body is then radially expanded to the maximum diameter while locking the bead cores, and tire component members are assembled onto the radially expanded core body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Iyanagi, Nobuyuki Hirai, Yuichiro Ogawa
  • Publication number: 20080017298
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tire building, and a building system, process setup method and manufacturing method for a tire built by this tire building drum, which can suppress investment cost of the drum core of the tire building drum used in a tire building system for building tires in different sizes, and to shrink an inventory of reserve drum cores. Plural distance pieces having the same thickness and end pieces forming the both end portions in the width direction are aligned in the width direction of the drum core to configure plural rigid segment which constitute the tire building drum. The distance pieces which are detachably configured are so arranged that their thickness direction face in the width direction of the drum core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2005
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventor: Satoshi Iyanagi
  • Publication number: 20060102272
    Abstract: Tire building drum and tire building method, capable of assembling tire component members with high accuracy. A tire building drum is used, which includes at least one core body, which is disposed at an axial inside of a pair of bead lock means, and which comprises a plurality of sheets of rigid support members disposed in a toroidal shape and adapted to be displaced and thereby expanded or contracted. Bead cores are locked by the bead lock means, respectively, and a center portion of a carcass band is bulged while displacing the bead lock means close to each other. Back side portions of the carcass band are folded to radial outsides around the bead cores, respectively. The core body is then radially expanded to the maximum diameter while locking the bead cores, and tire component members are assembled onto the radially expanded core body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Applicant: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Iyanagi, Nobuyuki Hirai, Yuichiro Ogawa