Patents by Inventor Shinya Harikae

Shinya Harikae 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: 20230123081
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire including a carcass layer mounted between a pair of bead portions and a belt reinforcing layer disposed on an outer circumferential side of the carcass layer, the carcass layer is formed of a carcass cord made of an organic fiber cord, an elongation at break of the carcass cord is set to 20% or more, an elongation under a load of 1.5 cN/dtex of the carcass cord in sidewall portions is set to from 5.0% to 8.0%, the belt reinforcing layer is formed of a cover cord made of an organic fiber cord, and a tensile strength of the cover cord per width of 50 mm at a 3.0% elongation is set to from 2.8 kN to 4.0 kN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Takamitsu CHAYA, Shinya HARIKAE
  • Publication number: 20220274445
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire in which a side reinforcing layer having a crescent-shaped cross-section is provided on an inner side in a tire width direction of a carcass layer in a sidewall portion, organic fiber cords having an elongation of 4.3% to 6.0% under a 1.5 cN/dtex load and a total fineness of 4000 dtex to 6000 dtex are used as carcass cords constituting the carcass layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Takamitsu CHAYA, Shinya HARIKAE
  • Publication number: 20220266632
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. A belt cover layer made of an organic fiber cord spirally wound along the tire circumferential direction is provided on the outer circumferential side of a belt layer in a tread portion, and a polyethylene terephthalate fiber cord of which the elastic modulus under a load of 2.0 cN/dtex at 100° C. is in the range of 3.5 cN/(tex·%) to 5.5 cN/(tex·%) is used as the organic fiber cord. The coating rubber covering the organic fiber cord contains one or more of natural rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, or butadiene rubber as a rubber component. The coating rubber is formed of a rubber composition in which the content of natural rubber in the rubber component is 50 mass % or more, and 5.0 parts by mass to 9.0 parts by mass of zinc oxide is blended per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Makoto OZAKI, Shinya HARIKAE, Hiroki SUGIURA, Miyuki NAKAJIMA
  • Publication number: 20220161602
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire is provided that includes belt layers disposed on an outer circumferential side of a carcass layer in a tread portion, and a belt cover layer disposed on an outer circumferential side of the belt layers, the belt cover layer including organic fiber cords helically wound along a tire circumferential direction, the belt layers including steel cords arranged at an incline with respect to the tire circumferential direction in such a manner as to intersect one another between the layers, each of the belt layers having a bending rigidity of 16500 N·mm2/50 mm or less per 50 mm width in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the steel cords, and the belt cover layer including organic fiber cords having an elongation of 2.0% to 4.0% under a load of 2.0 cN/dtex, the organic fiber cords being helically wound along the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki FUJIMORI, Shinya HARIKAE
  • Publication number: 20220126629
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a plurality of belt layers disposed on an outer circumferential side of a carcass layer in a tread portion are formed of steel cords each having a 1×M structure formed of a number of wire strands. The number of wire strands corresponds to one to six wire strands. A tensile modulus of elasticity of the steel cords under 5 N to 50 N load is 130 GPa or more. The steel cords are arranged inclined with respect to a tire circumferential direction to intersect each other in layers of the belt layers. The belt cover layer disposed on an outer circumferential side of the belt layers is formed of organic fiber cords having elongation of 2.0% to 4.0% under 2.0 cN/dtex load. The organic fiber cords are wound helically along the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Asuka SUZUKI, Shinya HARIKAE
  • Publication number: 20220048328
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire includes belt layers disposed on an outer circumferential side of a carcass layer in a tread portion. The belt layers are formed of steel cords in a N+M structure in which the number of wire strands N of an inner layer is 2 to 4 and the number of wire strands M of an outer layer is 2 to 7. A twist direction of the inner layer is different from a twist direction of the outer layer. The steel cords are inclined with respect to a tire circumferential direction to intersect each other in layers of the belt layers. A belt cover layer disposed on an outer circumferential side of the belt layers is formed of organic fiber cords having elongation of 2.0% to 4.0% under 2.0 cN/dtex load. The organic fiber cords are wound spirally along the tire circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Asuka SUZUKI, Shinya HARIKAE
  • Publication number: 20220041017
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire that includes a belt reinforcing layer formed of an organic fiber cord. A belt layer disposed on an outer circumferential side of a carcass layer in a tread portion is formed of monofilament wires having a wire diameter of 0.30 mm or more and 0.45 mm or less. The belt reinforcing layer is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the belt layer, is formed of an organic fiber cord that is made of a polyethylene terephthalate fiber and has an intermediate elongation under 2.0 cN/dtex load of from 2.0% to 4.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki FUJIMORI, Shinya HARIKAE
  • Patent number: 10780746
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided that can achieve performance that is equivalent to or higher than that of known tires while allowing weight reduction of bead cores by using, for the bead cores, a composite cord. A pneumatic tire includes annular bead cores (5) embedded in bead portions (3), and a carcass layer (4) locked on the bead cores (5). Each of the bead cores (5) includes a cable bead structure in which a composite cord (10) is spirally wound around an annular core body (20), the composite cord including a core wire (11) formed of carbon fibers and a plurality of siding wires (12) formed of glass fibers disposed around the core wire (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Harikae
  • Publication number: 20200031176
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided that can achieve performance that is equivalent to or higher than that of known tires while allowing weight reduction of bead cores by using, for the bead cores, a composite cord. A pneumatic tire includes annular bead cores (5) embedded in bead portions (3), and a carcass layer (4) locked on the bead cores (5). Each of the bead cores (5) includes a cable bead structure in which a composite cord (10) is spirally wound around an annular core body (20), the composite cord including a core wire (11) formed of carbon fibers and a plurality of siding wires (12) formed of glass fibers disposed around the core wire (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: Shinya HARIKAE
  • Patent number: 9981510
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has two carcass layers including carcass cords are laid between a pair of bead portions, bead cores and bead fillers are disposed in the bead portions, and at least two belt layers are disposed on the outer circumferential side of the carcass layers, the tire being characterized in that both ends of the inner carcass layer are folded back from the tire inner side to the tire outer side around the bead cores, and the ends of the folded back portions of the inner carcass layer are disposed between the innermost belt layer and the outer carcass layer, while both ends of the outer carcass layer are disposed so as to pass between a main portion of the inner carcass layer and the bead fillers, and both ends of the outer carcass layer terminate at the bead portions without being folded back around the bead cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kuriyama, Masatoshi Shimizu, Shinya Harikae
  • Patent number: 9308778
    Abstract: A belt cover layer is provided on an outer circumferential side of a belt layer. The belt cover layer is constituted by a band-like member in which steel cords are embedded in rubber. Adjacent revolution portions of the band-like member are wound spirally in a tire circumferential direction so as not to contact each other in a region of at least 50% of a belt width centered on a tire equator. A load-strain curve of the steel cords has an inflection point in a strain region of 1% to 3.5%. An average elastic modulus when the steel cords are subjected to a load from 50 N to 100 N is from 25 GPa to 100 GPa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Harikae, Masatoshi Kuriyama
  • Publication number: 20150306920
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has two carcass layers including carcass cords are laid between a pair of bead portions, bead cores and bead fillers are disposed in the bead portions, and at least two belt layers are disposed on the outer circumferential side of the carcass layers, the tire being characterized in that both ends of the inner carcass layer are folded back from the tire inner side to the tire outer side around the bead cores, and the ends of the folded back portions of the inner carcass layer are disposed between the innermost belt layer and the outer carcass layer, while both ends of the outer carcass layer are disposed so as to pass between a main portion of the inner carcass layer and the bead fillers, and both ends of the outer carcass layer terminate at the bead portions without being folded back around the bead cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Masatoshi Kuriyama, Masatoshi Shimizu, Shinya Harikae
  • Publication number: 20150298510
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire in which two carcass layers including carcass cords are laid between a pair of bead portions. Bead cores and bead fillers are disposed in the bead portions. At least two belt layers are disposed on the outer circumferential side of the carcass layers. Both ends of the inner carcass layer are folded back from the tire inner side to the tire outer side around the bead cores. The ends of the folded back portions of the inner carcass layer are disposed between the innermost belt layer and the outer carcass layer, while both ends of the outer carcass layer are disposed so as to pass between a main portion of the inner carcass layer and the bead fillers. Both ends of the outer carcass layer terminate at the bead portions without being folded back around the bead cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Masatoshi Shimizu, Masatoshi Kuriyama, Shinya Harikae
  • Publication number: 20150107745
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for use on a passenger car of the present technology includes a main belt layer in which belt plies with steel cords embedded at an angle of 15° to 45° with respect to a tire circumferential direction are overlapped in two layers in mutually crossing directions on an outer side in a tire radial direction of a carcass layer of a crown region, wherein, as a belt auxiliary layer, plies with steel cords embedded at an angle of 80° to 90° with respect to a tire circumferential direction are disposed between a carcass layer and an inner side main belt layer so that a portion of the plies is in a position separated 30 mm to the tire equator side, respectively, from both ends in a width direction of the narrow width main belt layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Shinya Harikae
  • Patent number: 8505601
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic radial tire including a main belt layer and at least one circumferential-direction reinforcement layer, which are provided in the tread portion. The main belt layer includes two belt layers in which steel cords are disposed in a manner that the steel cords of a first one of the two belt layers intersect the steel cords of a second one of the two belt layers. In the circumferential-direction reinforcement layer, steel cords are disposed in a substantial tire circumferential direction. The ratio Wo/Wm of the width Wo of the circumferential-direction reinforcement layer to the maximum width Wm of the main belt layer is 0.5 to 0.9. The ratio Ee/Ec of the reinforcement-cord elastic modulus Ee of the steel cords in the edge portions of the circumferential-direction reinforcement layer to the reinforcement-cord elastic modulus Ec of the steel cords in the center portion of the circumferential-direction reinforcement layer is not less than (0.85?0.5 Wo/Wm) and not more than 0.8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Harikae
  • Publication number: 20130048185
    Abstract: A belt cover layer is provided on an outer circumferential side of a belt layer. The belt cover layer is constituted by a band-like member in which steel cords are embedded in rubber. Adjacent revolution portions of the band-like member are wound spirally in a tire circumferential direction so as not to contact each other in a region of at least 50% of a belt width centered on a tire equator. A load-strain curve of the steel cords has an inflection point in a strain region of 1% to 3.5%. An average elastic modulus when the steel cords are subjected to a load from 50 N to 100 N is from 25 GPa to 100 GPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Harikae, Masatoshi Kuriyama
  • Patent number: 8376009
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pneumatic radial tire having improved flat spot resistance without sacrificing its high-speed durability, when a belt auxiliary reinforcement layer thereof is constituted of a hybrid fiber cord including a general-purpose nylon as a low-elastic fiber yarn. In the pneumatic radial tire, the belt auxiliary reinforcement layer is formed by winding an organic fiber cord around the outer periphery of belt layers in the tire circumferential direction. The organic fiber cord constituting the belt auxiliary reinforcement layer is obtained by twisting a highly-elastic fiber yarn with an elastic modulus of 10000 MPa or more and a low-elastic fiber yarn made of nylon 46.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Harikae, Makoto Ozaki
  • Patent number: 8336593
    Abstract: There is provided a pneumatic tire capable of improving high-speed durability and noise characteristics. The pneumatic tire has a belt-reinforcing structure 10 radially outwardly of belt plies 8 and 9, the belt-reinforcing structure 10 having organic fiber cords n spirally wound in the circumferential direction T of the tire. The belt-reinforcing structure 10 has an end reinforcement layer 10B disposed radially outwardly of each end region BE of the belt plies 8 and 9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Harikae
  • Publication number: 20120312441
    Abstract: A pneumatic radial tire for use on passenger cars including two layers of a belt layer formed from steel cords embedded at an angle from 15° to 45° with respect to a tire circumferential direction. The belt layers are formed from steel cords formed from a non-twisted steel monofilament having a diameter from 0.27 mm to 0.45 mm. A belt auxiliary layer formed from steel cords embedded at an angle from 80° to 90° with respect to the tire circumferential direction is provided between a carcass layer and the belt layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Harikae
  • Patent number: 8225835
    Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic radial tire: that includes a circumferential-direction reinforcement layer having a width increased with fatigue break of the circumferential-direction reinforcement layer being suppressed at edge portions thereof; and that suppresses separation in each of cross belt layers at edge portions thereof. A pneumatic radial tire according to the present invention is a pneumatic tire including: at least two cross belt layers disposed on an outer circumferential side of a carcass layer in a tread portion; and at least one circumferential-direction reinforcement layer disposed between these cross belt layers, a width of the circumferential-direction reinforcement layer being smaller than that of each cross belt layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinya Harikae