Patents by Inventor Suguru Yamaguchi

Suguru Yamaguchi 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: 9719617
    Abstract: In a threaded joint for steel pipes comprising a pin (1) and a box (2), each having a threaded portion (11 or 21), a sealing surface (13 or 23), and a shoulder surface (14, 15 or 24, 25), the sealing surface (13) of the pin (1) is formed by a tapered surface, and the sealing surface (23) of the box (2) is formed by a first curved surface portion with a large radius of curvature in the range of 15-120 mm, a tapered surface portion, and a second curved surface portion with a large radius of curvature again in the range of 15-120 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Takashi Okada, Keiichi Nakamura, Masaaki Sugino, Suguru Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20170101830
    Abstract: A threaded joint is constructed of a pin and a box. The pin includes, in order from an end thereof, a shoulder surface, a nose portion, a first sealing surface, a first male threaded portion, an annular portion, a second sealing surface, and a second male threaded portion. The box includes a shoulder surface, a recessed portion, a first sealing surface, a first female threaded portion, an annular portion, a second sealing surface, and a second female threaded portion. In the threaded joint, in a fastened state, the shoulder surfaces are in contact with each other, the first sealing surfaces are in contact with each other, the second sealing surfaces are in contact with each other, a clearance is provided between the nose portion and the recessed portion, a clearance is provided between the annular portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicants: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, VALLOREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Keita INOSE, Fumio OTA, Shin UGAI, Suguru YAMAGUCHI, Masaaki SUGINO
  • Patent number: 9605781
    Abstract: A threaded tubular connection includes a female threaded portion at a first tubular component end and a male threaded portion at a second tubular component end, the female threaded portion including a female thread, at least one female sealing surface on its inner peripheral surface, and at least one female axial abutment surface, the male threaded portion including a male thread, at least one male sealing surface on its outer peripheral surface, at least one axial abutment surface, and a lip disposed between the sealing surface and an axial abutment surface located at a free end of the threaded portion distant from the thread, the male thread being made up into the female thread such that at least one male axial abutment surface is in contact with at least one female axial abutment surface, at least one male sealing surface being in interference contact with at least one corresponding female sealing surface, the portion of the lip between the sealing surface and the axial abutment surface being radially dist
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sylvain Beigneux, Daly Daly, Bertrand Maillon, Claire Patureau, Eric Verger, Michihiko Iwamoto, Keiichi Nakamura, Masaaki Sugino, Suguru Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9568125
    Abstract: A threaded joint for steel pipes comprising a pin (1) and a box (2). The pin has a male thread (11) and a lip (12) which comprises (i) a sealing surface (13) and (ii) a nose portion (16) provided with a shoulder surface. The box has a female thread (21), a sealing surface (23) and a shoulder surface. The shoulder surface of the pin comprises two distinct adjacent surfaces, main shoulder (14) in the inner side and sub shoulder (15) in the outer side. Correspondingly, the shoulder surface of the box comprises two distinct adjacent surfaces, main shoulder (24) in the inner side and sub shoulder (25) in the outer side. The main shoulder surfaces of the pin and box are disposed such as to prevent a radially inward deformation of the lip end, and the sub shoulder surfaces of pin and box are disposed such as to limit a radially outward deformation of the lip end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Suguru Yamaguchi, Keiichi Nakamura, Masaaki Sugino, Michihiko Iwamoto, Gabriel Briquet, Claire Patureau, Daly Daly, Bertrand Maillon, Sylvain Beigneux
  • Publication number: 20160167444
    Abstract: A tire serving as an example of an aircraft tire includes a tread provided at intervals along a tire width direction with plural tire circumferential direction grooves that each extend along a tire circumferential direction with plural recessed portions provided in a groove bottom at intervals around the tire circumferential direction, wherein, from among plural land portions formed by the plural circumferential direction grooves, more of the recessed portions are disposed in first circumferential direction grooves that form a first land portion with a longest tire width direction length than in other second circumferential direction grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventor: Suguru YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 9194515
    Abstract: A threaded joint for pipes comprises a pin and a box, each having a threaded and unthreaded portion metal contact surface. The unthreaded metal contact portion includes a sealing surface and a shoulder surface, the shoulder surface of the pin located on the pin end surface. A non-contacting region where the pin and the box do not contact each other exists between the sealing surfaces and the shoulder surfaces of the pin and the box. One or more grooves is formed in at least one of the pin and the box shoulder surfaces and extending to the non-contacting region and to the interior of the joint. At least one of the contact surfaces has a solid lubricating coating exhibiting plastic or viscoplastic rheological behavior. A total volume V (mm3) of the grooves and coating weight W (g) of the solid lubricating coating satisfy the equation V/W?24 (mm3/g).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Masahiro Oshima, Shin Ugai, Takashi Okada, Masayoshi Sasaki, Suguru Yamaguchi, Masaaki Sugino
  • Publication number: 20150001841
    Abstract: A threaded joint for pipes comprises a pin and a box, each having a threaded and unthreaded portion metal contact surface. The unthreaded metal contact portion includes a sealing surface and a shoulder surface, the shoulder surface of the pin located on the pin end surface. A non-contacting region where the pin and the box do not contact each other exists between the sealing surfaces and the shoulder surfaces of the pin and the box. One or more grooves is formed in at least one of the pin and the box shoulder surfaces and extending to the non-contacting region and to the interior of the joint. At least one of the contact surfaces has a solid lubricating coating exhibiting plastic or viscoplastic rheological behavior. A total volume V (mm3) of the grooves and coating weight W (g) of the solid lubricating coating satisfy the equation V/W?24 (mm3/g).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Masahiro Oshima, Shin Ugai, Takashi Okada, Masayoshi Sasaki, Suguru Yamaguchi, Masaaki Sugino
  • Patent number: 8800619
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tire in which generation of partial wear and groove cracks are suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Yamaguchi, Michiharu Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8038179
    Abstract: A threaded joint for steel pipes comprising a pin 1 having a tapered male thread 11, a tapered sealing surface 13, and an end shoulder surface 14 and a box 2 having correspondingly a tapered female thread 21, a tapered sealing surface 23, and a shoulder surface 24 which is capable of easy tightening and has improved air tightness by the sealing surfaces is arranged such that the pin and the box each have a noncontacting region B where the peripheral surfaces of the pin and the box do not contact each other between the sealing surfaces 13, 23 and the shoulder surfaces 14 and 24. At least a portion of the noncontacting region of the pin adjoining the to end of the pin is a tapered surface portion 18 having substantially the same angle of slope as the tapered sealing surface 13, and the noncontacting region of the box is a substantially cylindrical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignees: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Vallourec Mannesmann Oil & Gas France
    Inventors: Takahiro Takano, Shigeo Nagasaku, Masaaki Sugino, Takahiro Hamamoto, Suguru Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20110241340
    Abstract: In a threaded joint for steel pipes comprising a pin (1) and a box (2), each having a threaded portion (11 or 21), a sealing surface (13 or 23), and a shoulder surface (14, 15 or 24, 25), the sealing surface (13) of the pin (1) is formed by a tapered surface, and the sealing surface (23) of the box (2) is formed by a first curved surface portion with a large radius of curvature in the range of 15-120 mm, a tapered surface portion, and a second curved surface portion with a large radius of curvature again in the range of 15-120 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicants: SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD., VALLOUREC MANNESMANN OIL & GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Takashi OKADA, Keiichi Nakamura, Masaaki Sugino, Suguru Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20110192516
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tire in which generation of partial wear and groove cracks are suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suguru Yamaguchi, Michiharu Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7900975
    Abstract: A threaded joint for steel pipes constituted by a pin having male threads and a box having female threads is improved with respect to ease of insertion of the pin and galling resistance of the threaded portions. The stabbing flanks of the threads in a complete thread portion of one of the pin and a box has a two-step stabbing shape having a chamfer. The two-step stabbing shape has a stabbing flank angle ? of 5-45° and a chamfer angle ? of 20-60°. The ratio h/H of the chamfer height h to the thread height H of the pin is 0.25-0.50, or the ratio of the cross-sectional area of the chamfered portion to the overall cross-sectional area of the stabbing flank is made at least a value corresponding to a chamfer height ratio h/H of 0.25 and at most a value corresponding to a chamfer height ratio of 0.50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Nakamura, Takahiro Hamamoto, Masaaki Sugino, Suguru Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20110025051
    Abstract: A threaded joint for steel pipes comprising a pin (1) and a box (2). The pin has a male thread (11) and a lip (12) which comprises (i) a sealing surface (13) and (ii) a nose portion (16) provided with a shoulder surface. The box has a female thread (21), a sealing surface (23) and a shoulder surface. The shoulder surface of the pin comprises two distinct adjacent surfaces, main shoulder (14) in the inner side and sub shoulder (15) in the outer side. Correspondingly, the shoulder surface of the box comprises two distinct adjacent surfaces, main shoulder (24) in the inner side and sub shoulder (25) in the outer side. The main shoulder surfaces of the pin and box are disposed such as to prevent a radially inward deformation of the lip end, and the sub shoulder surfaces of pin and box are disposed such as to limit a radially outward deformation of the lip end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Suguru Yamaguchi, Keiichi Nakamura, Masaaki Sugino, Michihiko Iwamoto, Gabriel Briquet, Claire Patureau, Daly Daly, Bertrand Maillon, Sylvain Beigneux
  • Publication number: 20100301603
    Abstract: A threaded tubular connection includes a female threaded portion at a first tubular component end and a male threaded portion at a second tubular component end, the female threaded portion including a female thread, at least one female sealing surface on its inner peripheral surface, and at least one female axial abutment surface, the male threaded portion including a male thread, at least one male sealing surface on its outer peripheral surface, at least one axial abutment surface, and a lip disposed between the sealing surface and an axial abutment surface located at a free end of the threaded portion distant from the thread, the male thread being made up into the female thread such that at least one male axial abutment surface is in contact with at least one female axial abutment surface, at least one male sealing surface being in interference contact with at least one corresponding female sealing surface, the portion of the lip between the sealing surface and the axial abutment surface being radially dist
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicants: Vallourec Mannesmann Oil & Gas France, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sylvain Beigneux, Daly Daly, Bertrand Maillon, Claire Patureau, Eric Verger, Michihiko Iwamoto, Keiichi Nakamura, Masaaki Sugino, Suguru Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20100270793
    Abstract: A threaded joint for steel pipes comprising a pin 1 having a tapered male thread 11, a tapered sealing surface 13, and an end shoulder surface 14 and a box 2 having correspondingly a tapered female thread 21, a tapered sealing surface 23, and a shoulder surface 24 which is capable of easy tightening and has improved air tightness by the sealing surfaces is arranged such that the pin and the box each have a noncontacting region B where the peripheral surfaces of the pin and the box do not contact each other between the sealing surfaces 13, 23 and the shoulder surfaces 14 and 24. At least a portion of the noncontacting region of the pin adjoining the to end of the pin is a tapered surface portion 18 having substantially the same angle of slope as the tapered sealing surface 13, and the noncontacting region of the box is a substantially cylindrical surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Takahiro Takano, Shigeo Nagasaku, Masaaki Sugino, Takahiro Hamamoto, Suguru Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: D621344
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Suguru Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: D637149
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Suguru Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: D643360
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Suguru Yamaguchi, Seiichi Toda
  • Patent number: D646624
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Suguru Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: D647036
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Suguru Yamaguchi