Patents by Inventor Shintaro Hatanaka

Shintaro Hatanaka 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: 20240424835
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for passenger vehicles that satisfies a defined relationship between sectional width SW and outer diameter OD of the tire and includes one or more circumferential main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction on a tread contact surface. A negative ratio of a half portion of the tire on a vehicle-mounted outward side, which is one side of the tire in a tread width direction with the tire equatorial plane as a boundary, is greater than a negative ratio of the other half portion of the tire on a vehicle-mounted inward side, which is the other side of the tire in the tread width direction with the equatorial plane as the boundary. A drop height (or ground contact length relationship, or tread gauge relationship) is also defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao KUWAYAMA, Shintaro HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240408917
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for passenger vehicles that satisfies a defined relationship between sectional width SW and outer diameter OD of the tire, and includes only two circumferential main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction on a tread contact surface, a barycenter of the circumferential main grooves being provided to a half portion of the tire on a vehicle-mounted inward side, which is one side of the tire in a tread width direction with a tire equatorial plane as a boundary. A drop height (or ground contact length relationship, or tread gauge relationship) is also defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao KUWAYAMA, Shintaro HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240408916
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for passenger vehicles that satisfies a defined relationship between sectional width SW and outer diameter OD of the tire, grooves in a contact patch consisting only of grooves having a groove width of 2 mm or less, and the contact patch includes one or more block-shaped land portion defined by two or more circumferential grooves and two or more width direction grooves. A drop height (or ground contact length relationship, or tread gauge relationship) is also defined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao KUWAYAMA, Shintaro HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240059103
    Abstract: The pneumatic tire for passenger vehicles according to the present disclosure comprises a carcass consisting of plies of radially arranged cords, spanning toroidally between a pair of bead portions; the cross-sectional width SW and the outer diameter OD of the tire satisfy a given relationship; the land portion has a plurality of width direction sipes extending in the tire width direction; the pitch length in the tire circumferential direction of the plurality of width direction sipes is 3 mm to 10 mm; and the width direction sipe has a widened portion on the sipe bottom side where the sipe width is larger than that on the tread surface side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao KUWAYAMA, Shintaro HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240042804
    Abstract: The pneumatic tire for passenger vehicles according to the present disclosure comprises a carcass consisting of plies of radially arranged cords, spanning toroidally between a pair of bead portions; the cross-sectional width SW and the outer diameter OD of the tire satisfy a given relationship; the tire has a tread portion with tread rubber; the rubber gauge of the tread portion is 2 mm or more and less than 5 mm; and the tread surface of the tread portion has one or more land portions, and a width direction sipe extending in the tire width direction is formed in the land portion so that there are two or more of the width direction sipes in the contact patch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao KUWAYAMA, Shintaro HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240042802
    Abstract: The pneumatic radial tire for passenger vehicles according to the present disclosure comprises a carcass consisting of plies of radially arranged cords, spanning toroidally between a pair of bead portions; the cross-sectional width SW and the outer diameter OD of the tire satisfy a given relationship; the tire has a tread portion with tread rubber; the rubber gauge of the tread rubber is 2 mm or more and less than 5 mm; and the negative ratio of the tread surface of the tread portion is 20% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao KUWAYAMA, Shintaro HATANAKA
  • Publication number: 20240034102
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including: a pair of bead cores embedded in a pair of bead portions; and a carcass including one or more carcass plies extending in a toroidal form between the pair of bead cores, wherein bead fillers are disposed on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the bead cores, rubber chafers are provided on an outer side in a tire width direction of the bead fillers, and when a storage modulus of the bead fillers is E1?, and a storage modulus of the rubber chafers is E2?, the ratio E2?/E1? satisfies 0.4?E2?/E1??1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro HATANAKA, Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240025210
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including: a pair of bead portions; and a carcass including one or more carcass plies of radially arranged cords that extend in a toroidal form between the pair of bead portions, wherein a reinforcing member is provided so as to extend at an angle with respect to a tire radial direction in an area including a tire maximum width position of the pneumatic tire that stretches in the tire radial direction on an outer side in a tire width direction of the carcass in a reference state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro HATANAKA, Isao KUWAYAMA
  • Patent number: 10900893
    Abstract: A method of measuring a height of water on ice of the present disclosure comprises emitting terahertz radiation having a frequency of 10 THz or less toward a first surface of the ice; and measuring transmitted or reflected radiation of the terahertz radiation to measure the height of the water on the ice from a result of the measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Hatanaka, Yasuo Ohsawa
  • Patent number: 10773554
    Abstract: The pneumatic tire includes, on a tread surface, at least two circumferential main grooves and at least one rib-like land portion defined by two of the circumferential main grooves. The rib-like land portion includes neither grooves nor sipes that extend to include a widthwise center line of the rib-like land portion. The rib-like land portion includes a one-end-open sipe and a both-end-closed sipe. The one-end-open sipe has a widthwise sipe portion and a circumferential sipe portion, the widthwise sipe portion extending in tire width direction from one end of the one-end-open sipe and being terminated within the rib-like land portion, and the circumferential sipe portion being located closer to the widthwise center line than the both-end-closed sipe, extending in tire circumferential direction from the widthwise sipe portion, and being terminated at another end of the one-end-open sipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shintaro Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 10639936
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises, in a tread surface: at least two circumferential main grooves continuously extending in a tire circumferential direction; and at least one rib-like land portion each defined by two adjacent circumferential main grooves from among the at least two circumferential main grooves. The rib-like land portion has: a circumferential sipe including a circumferential sipe portion extending in the tire circumferential direction; and a both-end closed sipe having both ends terminating within the rib-like land portion. When a land portion width of the rib-like land portion is evenly divided by three where a region at a center in a tire width direction is a center region and regions on both sides of the center region in the tire width direction are side regions, the circumferential sipe portion is located only in the center region, and the both-end closed sipe is located in any of the side regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Hatanaka, Isao Kuwayama
  • Patent number: 10486473
    Abstract: When a tire is attached to a rim and set to an internal pressure of 250 kPa or more, a ratio SW/OD of the tire is 0.26 or less in the case where SW of the tire is less than 165 (mm), and SW and OD satisfy a relationship 2.135×SW+282.3?OD in the case where SW is 165 (mm) or more. The tread rubber has dynamic storage modulus E? of 6.0 MPa to 12.0 MPa, and loss tangent tan ? of 0.05 to 0.15. In at least one land portion, sipes are arranged with a predetermined pitch length L, and a land portion width W, a tire widthwise sipe component total length Ws of the sipes, the pitch length L, and a tire circumferential sipe component total length Ls of the sipes satisfy relationships 0.4W?Ws?1.2W and 0.6L?Ls?3L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Hatanaka, Isao Kuwayama
  • Publication number: 20190346365
    Abstract: A method of measuring a height of water on ice of the present disclosure comprises emitting terahertz radiation having a frequency of 10 THz or less toward a first surface of the ice; and measuring transmitted or reflected radiation of the terahertz radiation to measure the height of the water on the ice from a result of the measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro HATANAKA, Yasuo OHSAWA
  • Patent number: 10434823
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle according to the present invention has an appropriate relationship between a tire cross-sectional width SW and a tire outer diameter OD. Also, a method of using the pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle according to the present invention is to use the above radial tire with at least specified internal pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Kuwayama, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Shintaro Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 10427458
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle according to the present invention has an appropriate relationship between a tire cross-sectional width SW and a tire outer diameter OD. Also, a method of using the pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle according to the present invention is to use the above radial tire with at least specified internal pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Kuwayama, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Shintaro Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 10427459
    Abstract: To reduce noise while suppressing increase in rolling resistance, without affecting the formation of a carcass line, provided is a pneumatic tire 10 comprising an inner liner 17. The thickness of the inner liner 17 at least in part of a side portion 18 is 1.5 mm or more. When the tire 10 is mounted to a rim, and an internal pressure of 250 kPa or more is applied to the tire, in a case where a sectional width SW of the tire is less than 165 mm, a ratio of the sectional width SW to an outer diameter OD of the tire, SW/OD, is 0.26 or less; and in a case where the sectional width SW of the tire is 165 mm or more, the sectional width SW and the outer diameter OD of the tire satisfy a relation expression OD?2.135×SW+282.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Kuwayama, Shintaro Hatanaka, Kentaro Kozuki
  • Patent number: 10226966
    Abstract: The present invention provides: a pneumatic radial tire for a passenger car, the tire having cross sectional width SW and outer diameter OD satisfying a predetermined relationship formula when the tire is assembled with a rim and inflated at internal pressure of at least 250 kPa; a tire-rim assembly formed by assembling bead portions of said tire with the rim; and a method for using a tire, including preparing a pneumatic radial tire for a passenger car in which cross sectional width SW and outer diameter OD of the tire satisfy a predetermined relationship formula, and using the tire at internal pressure of at least 250 kPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Kuwayama, Shintaro Hatanaka, Hiroyuki Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 10207541
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle according to the present invention has an appropriate relationship between a tire cross-sectional width SW and a tire outer diameter OD. Also, a method of using the pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle according to the present invention is to use the above radial tire with at least specified internal pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Kuwayama, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Shintaro Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 10207542
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to adequately control relationship between a cross sectional width SW and an outer diameter OD of a pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle. The tire is further characterized in that, provided that each half portion in the tire width direction of a ground contact surface of the tire is divided in the tire width direction into three equal portions including a tire-width-direction center portion, a tire-width-direction intermediate portion and a tire-width-direction outer portion from the tire-width-direction center side, rigidity in the tire circumferential direction of the belt reinforcing layer in a region in the tire width direction thereof corresponding to the tire-width-direction outer side portion is lower than rigidity in the tire circumferential direction of the belt reinforcing layer in a region in the tire width direction thereof corresponding to the tire-width-direction center portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Kuwayama, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Shintaro Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 10195899
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle, having a carcass constituted of plies as radially-disposed cords and toroidally provided across a pair of bead portions, and including: a belt constituted of one or more belt layers; and a tread, which are disposed in this order on the outside in the radial direction of the carcass, in which: a section width SW and an outer diameter OD of the tire have a ratio of SW/OD?0.26 when SW<165 (mm), and SW and OD satisfy a relationship formula OD?2.035×SW+282.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shintaro Hatanaka, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Isao Kuwayama, Jun Watanabe, Shingo Hiura