Patents by Inventor Shuji Imaoka

Shuji Imaoka 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: 8058339
    Abstract: A rubber composition tire containing 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of zinc oxide particles having an average particle diameter of not more than 200 nm with respect to 100 parts by mass of a rubber component and a pneumatic tire employing the same are provided. This rubber composition for a tire can be suitably employed for manufacturing tread rubber, base tread rubber, bead apex rubber, clinch rubber and inner liner rubber for a tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takafumi Taguchi, Shuji Imaoka
  • Publication number: 20100130663
    Abstract: A rubber composition tire containing 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of zinc oxide particles having an average particle diameter of not more than 200 nm with respect to 100 parts by mass of a rubber component and a pneumatic tire employing the same are provided. This rubber composition for a tire can be suitably employed for manufacturing tread rubber, base tread rubber, bead apex rubber, clinch rubber and inner liner rubber for a tire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Takafumi Taguchi, Shuji Imaoka
  • Patent number: 5430086
    Abstract: A rubber composition for tire treads comprising a rubber component consisting essentially of (A) 20 to 100% by weight of a solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene copolymer rubber having a Mooney viscosity ML.sub.1+4 of 30 to 200 at 100.degree. C. prepared by copolymerization of styrene, butadiene and a polyvinyl aromatic compound followed by coupling with a trifunctional or tetrafunctional coupling agent, and (B) 0 to 80% by weight of at least one rubber selected from the group consisting of an emulsion-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber, a butadiene rubber, natural rubber and a synthetic polyisoprene rubber; and (C) 50 to 250 parts by weight of a carbon black having an iodine adsorption number of not less than 60 mg/g and an oil absorption of not less than 110 ml/100 g per 100 parts by weight of said rubber component; the tan .delta. peak temperature Tg of the cured product of said rubber composition being from -40.degree. to +5.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1995
    Assignees: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Saito, Toru Fukumoto, Shuji Imaoka, Keisaku Yamamoto, Kizuku Wakatsuki, Mitsuji Tsuji