Patents by Inventor Shigeki NISHIJIMA

Shigeki NISHIJIMA 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: 20240131871
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, a carcass extending between the portions, and an inner rubber extending between the portions, on the inner side of the carcass. The inner rubber comprises a first portion extending through the tread portion with a first thickness and a second portion extending through the sidewall portions with a second thickness smaller than the first thickness. The land ratio of the tread portion 2 is 65% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya SASAKI, Tsukasa YANO, Rena ONITSUKA, Shigeki NISHIJIMA, Masaki TERASHIMA, Yusuke SUEYOSHI, Junya SUENO
  • Publication number: 20240066922
    Abstract: A tire has an outer diameter smaller than a value obtained by subtracting 4 mm from an outer diameter maximum value of new product dimensions defined by a JATMA standard or an ETRTO standard, and has a total width smaller than a value obtained by subtracting 5 mm from a maximum total width of the new product dimensions. The tire includes an outer surface including a tread surface and a pair of side surfaces. The tread surface includes an equator. Each of the side surfaces includes a maximum width position. In a normal state, a ratio of a length of the shoulder line segment to a length of the reference line segment is 85.9% or more and 89.3% or less, and a ratio of the radius of the center arc to the radius of the middle arc is 1.85 or more and 2.00 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki NAKAYAMA, Miyu OZAWA, Ryuta KITORA, Kohei HAYAMA, Shigeki NISHIJIMA, Masahiro NAGASE
  • Patent number: 11745547
    Abstract: A tyre includes a tread portion including first and second land portions. The first middle land portion is provided with first middle lateral grooves traversing the first middle land portion completely. The second middle land portion is provided with second middle lateral grooves traversing the second middle land portion completely. Each of the first middle lateral grooves and the second middle lateral grooves is a curved groove which includes a first convex portion located on a first side with respect to a groove-reference-straight-line that connects both ends of a groove centerline of the curved groove and a second convex portion located on a second side with respect to the groove-reference-straight-line, and a circumferential length of the groove-reference-straight-line of each first middle lateral groove is smaller than a circumferential length of the groove-reference-straight-line of each second middle lateral groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Osawa, Shigeki Nishijima, Dai Sunazuka
  • Patent number: 11453241
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass ply extending between bead portions through a tread portion and sidewall portions, and turned up around a bead core from the inside to the outside of the tire in each of the bead portions, so as to form a pair of turnup portions and a main portion therebetween. In each the bead portion, a first apex rubber and a second apex rubber are disposed. The first apex rubber is disposed between the turnup portion and the main portion. The second apex rubber is disposed axially outside the turnup portion. A complex elastic modulus b of the second apex rubber is larger than that of the first apex rubber. The cross-sectional width Wt in mm of the tire and the outer diameter Dt in mm of the tire satisfy the following conditions Dt=<59.078×Wt0.498 and Dt>=59.078×Wt0.460.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeki Nishijima
  • Publication number: 20210094351
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass ply extending between bead portions through a tread portion and sidewall portions, and turned up around a bead core from the inside to the outside of the tire in each of the bead portions, so as to form a pair of turnup portions and a main portion therebetween. In each the bead portion, a first apex rubber and a second apex rubber are disposed. The first apex rubber is disposed between the turnup portion and the main portion. The second apex rubber is disposed axially outside the turnup portion. A complex elastic modulus b of the second apex rubber is larger than that of the first apex rubber. The cross-sectional width wt in mm of the tire and the outer diameter Dt in mm of the tire satisfy the following conditions Dt=<59.078×wt0.498 and Dt>=59.078×wt0.460.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeki NISHIJIMA
  • Publication number: 20200254822
    Abstract: A tyre includes a tread portion including first and second land portions. The first middle land portion is provided with first middle lateral grooves traversing the first middle land portion completely. The second middle land portion is provided with second middle lateral grooves traversing the second middle land portion completely. Each of the first middle lateral grooves and the second middle lateral grooves is a curved groove which includes a first convex portion located on a first side with respect to a groove-reference-straight-line that connects both ends of a groove centerline of the curved groove and a second convex portion located on a second side with respect to the groove-reference-straight-line, and a circumferential length of the groove-reference-straight-line of each first middle lateral groove is smaller than a circumferential length of the groove-reference-straight-line of each second middle lateral groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya OSAWA, Shigeki NISHIJIMA, Dai SUNAZUKA