Patents by Inventor Takahiro KAWACHI

Takahiro KAWACHI 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: 20230415512
    Abstract: A tire having improved chipping resistance performance is provided, wherein the tire has a tread portion, the tread portion has a cap rubber layer and a base rubber layer provided radially inward of the cap rubber layer, the cap rubber layer contains, as a rubber component, 40 parts by mass or more and 60 parts by mass or less of styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) with a styrene content of 25% by mass or less, and 30 parts by mass or less of isoprene-based rubber, in 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, and, as a filler, 100 parts by mass or less of silica with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component; and is formed from a rubber composition having a loss tangent 30° C. tan ? of 0.25 or less measured under conditions of temperature of 30° C., frequency of 10 Hz, initial strain of 5%, and dynamic strain rate of 1%, and deformation mode: tensile; and the ratio of the thickness of the cap rubber layer to the thickness of the base rubber layer is 2.3 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro KAWACHI, Kentaro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230416507
    Abstract: A tire having a tread portion which can improve wear resistance performance when running on uneven ground, wherein the cap rubber layer forming the tread portion contains styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR), isoprene-based rubber, and silica; the content of the styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) in 100 parts by mass of the rubber component is 40 parts by mass or more and 60 parts by mass or less, and the styrene content of the styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) is 25% by mass or less; the content of the isoprene-based rubber in 100 parts by mass of the rubber component is more than 30 parts by mass; the content of the silica with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component is 60 parts by mass or less; and the thickness of the tread portion is 9.4 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro KAWACHI, Kentaro NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20230173842
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a tire having an excellent balance of wet grip performance and chipping resistance. The tire is a tire comprising a tread, wherein the tread has a lateral groove neither of both ends of which opens into circumferential grooves, wherein a predetermined rubber component, a predetermined filler, and a silane coupling agent are compounded in a rubber layer of a tread surface, wherein a brittleness temperature of the rubber component and a ratio of a groove depth at the deepest part of the groove bottom of the lateral groove neither of both ends of which opens into the circumferential grooves to a thickness of the entire tread are made to lie in predetermined ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro KAWACHI
  • Patent number: 11542387
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a rubber composition for a tread which is good in the balance between its wet grip performance and its chipping resistance. The rubber composition for a tread comprises 1 to 20 parts by mass of an ethylene-propylene-styrene copolymer and 60 parts by mass or more of a filler comprising a silica based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component comprising 20 to 50% by mass of a butadiene rubber and 30 to 80% by mass of a styrene butadiene rubber, wherein an elongation at break of the rubber composition is not less than 300% in the atmosphere of 180° C. according to JIS K 6251: 2017.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Kawachi
  • Patent number: 11400770
    Abstract: A pneumatic tyre (1) for decreasing running noise in a low temperature environment includes a noise damper (20) made of a porous material and fixed to a tyre inner cavity surface (16) of a tread portion (2). In the noise damper (20), hardness under a 25% compression load measured in accordance with Japanese Industrial standard JIS K6400-2 in an atmosphere of ?60 degrees Celsius is 110 kPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro Kawachi
  • Patent number: 11312191
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 comprises a carcass 6 extending between bead cores of bead portions via a tread portion 2 and sidewall portions, and a belt layer 7 arranged on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the carcass 6 and inside of the tread portion 2. The pneumatic tire 1 further comprises a damping rubber body 30 arranged between the carcass 6 and the belt layer 7, and a noise damper 20 arranged on an inner cavity surface of the tread portion 2. A width W1 in a tire axial direction of the damping rubber body 30 is in a range of from 60% to 130% of a width W2 in the tire axial direction of the belt layer 7, and a water absorption rate of the noise damper 20 is in a range of from 10% to 25%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masako Nakatani, Takahiro Kawachi, Ayuko Yamada, Takuya Horiguchi, Masataka Hiro, Takayuki Nagase, Hiroshi Ito, Fumiya Kato, Subaru Toya
  • Publication number: 20210395499
    Abstract: The present invention provides a tire having a good balance of fuel efficiency, chipping resistance, and steering stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro KAWACHI
  • Publication number: 20210206209
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a noise damper made of a porous material and fixed to a tire inner cavity surface of the tread portion. In the noise damper, a ratio H1/H2 of a first hardness H1 at 25% compression load measured in accordance with Japanese Industrial Standard JIS K6400-2 in an atmosphere of 23 degrees Celsius and a second hardness H2 at 25% compression load measured in accordance with Japanese Industrial Standard JIS K6400-2 in an atmosphere of 50 degrees Celsius is 2.0 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro KAWACHI
  • Publication number: 20210129599
    Abstract: A pneumatic tyre 1 includes a carcass 6 extending between bead cores of bead portions via a tread portion 2 and sidewall portions, and a belt layer 7 arranged on an outer side in a tyre radial direction of the carcass 6 and inside of the tread portion 2. The pneumatic tyre 1 has a damping rubber body 30 arranged between the carcass 6 and the belt layer 7, and a noise damper 20 arranged on an inner cavity surface of the tread portion 2. A width W1 in a tyre axial direction of the damping rubber body 30 is in a range of from 60% to 130% of a width W2 in the tyre axial direction of the belt layer 7, and air permeability of the noise damper 20 measured in accordance with the Japanese Industrial Standard JIS-L1096 is 3.0 cm3/cm2/s or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masako NAKATANI, Takahiro KAWACHI, Ayuko YAMADA, Noboru OKABE, Keiji TAKAGI, Natsuki MAEKAWA, Kenji HAMAMURA, Subaru TOYA
  • Patent number: 10913840
    Abstract: A rubber composition comprises 5 to 30 parts by mass of a terpene resin having a softening point of 100 to 120° C. and a molecular weight of 500 to 10,000, and 2 to 10 parts by mass of a liquid rubber or a liquid resin having a molecular weight of 100 to 3,500, based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component comprising 72 to 95% by mass of an aromatic olefin rubber and 5 to 28% by mass of a diene olefin rubber, wherein a ratio of a content of the terpene resin to a content of the liquid rubber or the liquid resin (a content of the terpene resin/a content of the liquid rubber or the liquid resin) is from 0.5 to 5, and the tire is one having a tire member composed of the rubber composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenya Watanabe, Takahiro Kawachi, Keiji Ikeda
  • Publication number: 20200354549
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a rubber composition for a tread which is good in the balance between its wet grip performance and its chipping resistance. The rubber composition for a tread comprises 1 to 20 parts by mass of an ethylene-propylene-styrene copolymer and 60 parts by mass or more of a filler comprising a silica based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component comprising 20 to 50% by mass of a butadiene rubber and 30 to 80% by mass of a styrene butadiene rubber, wherein an elongation at break of the rubber composition is not less than 300% in the atmosphere of 180° C. according to JIS K 6251: 2017.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro KAWACHI
  • Publication number: 20200238768
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 comprises a carcass 6 extending between bead cores of bead portions via a tread portion 2 and sidewall portions, and a belt layer 7 arranged on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the carcass 6 and inside of the tread portion 2. The pneumatic tire 1 further comprises a damping rubber body 30 arranged between the carcass 6 and the belt layer 7, and a noise damper 20 arranged on an inner cavity surface of the tread portion 2. A width W1 in a tire axial direction of the damping rubber body 30 is in a range of from 60% to 130% of a width W2 in the tire axial direction of the belt layer 7, and a water absorption rate of the noise damper 20 is in a range of from 10% to 25%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masako NAKATANI, Takahiro KAWACHI, Ayuko YAMADA, Takuya HORIGUCHI, Masataka HIRO, Takayuki NAGASE, Hiroshi ITO, Fumiya KATO, Subaru TOYA
  • Publication number: 20200164700
    Abstract: To be capable of preventing deterioration of uniformity after puncture repair while suppressing running noise. [Solution] A pneumatic tire 1 comprises a noise damper 20 fixed to a tire inner cavity surface of a tread portion 2 and formed of a porous material. The noise damper 20 includes a first part 23 arranged on an outer side in a tire radial direction and fixed to the tire inner cavity surface 16, and a second part 24 arranged on an inner side in the tire radial direction of the first part 23 and exposed in a tire inner cavity 17. A water absorption rate of the first part 23 calculated by a following formula (1) is in a range of from 5% to 25%. Air permeability of the second part 24 measured in accordance with Japanese Industrial standard JIS-L1096 is in a range of from 1 to 7 cm3/cm2/s. The formula (1) is: water absorption rate (%)=weight change before and after immersion (g)/volume at 50% compression (cm3)×100 (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masako NAKATANI, Takahiro KAWACHI, Nanaho KAMI, Ayuko YAMADA, Takuya HORIGUCHI, Tatsuhiro TANAKA, Keiji TAKAGI, Subaru TOYA
  • Publication number: 20200164701
    Abstract: Puncture repair using a puncture repair liquid is performed quickly and reliably while a noise damper has a single layer structure. A pneumatic tyre is provided with a noise damper made of a porous material having interconnected bubbles on an inner surface of a tread portion. In the noise damper, the number of bubbles is 30 or more and 60 or less/25 mm, and in an arbitrary cross section of the noise damper, a ratio of a total sum of cross-sectional areas of the bubbles to an area of the cross section is 10% or more and 30% or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro KAWACHI
  • Patent number: 10647168
    Abstract: To be capable of preventing deterioration of uniformity after puncture repair while suppressing running noise. [Solution] A pneumatic tire 1 comprises a noise damper 20 fixed to a tire inner cavity surface of a tread portion 2 and formed of a porous material. The noise damper 20 includes a first part 23 arranged on an outer side in a tire radial direction and fixed to the tire inner cavity surface 16, and a second part 24 arranged on an inner side in the tire radial direction of the first part 23 and exposed in a tire inner cavity 17. A water absorption rate of the first part 23 calculated by a following formula (1) is in a range of from 5% to 25%. Air permeability of the second part 24 measured in accordance with Japanese Industrial Standard JIS-L1096 is in a range of from 1 to 7 cm3/cm2/s. The formula (1) is: water absorption rate (%)=weight change before and after immersion (g)/volume at 50% compression (cm3)×100 ??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masako Nakatani, Takahiro Kawachi, Nanaho Kami, Ayuko Yamada, Takuya Horiguchi, Tatsuhiro Tanaka, Keiji Takagi, Subaru Toya
  • Publication number: 20200114704
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 includes a carcass 6 extending between bead cores of bead portions via a tread portion 2 and sidewall portions, and a belt layer 7 arranged on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the carcass 6 and inside the tread portion 2. The pneumatic tire 1 has a noise damper 20 arranged on an inner cavity surface of the tread portion 2. Glass transition temperature of the noise damper 20 is in a range of from ?55 degrees Celsius to ?45 degrees Celsius.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masako NAKATANI, Takahiro KAWACHI, Ayuko YAMADA, Keiichi NAKADERA, Hiroshi ITO, Shuichiro ONO, Daiki MUKOUGUCHI, Tatsuhiro TANAKA, Tetsuya MAEKAWA, Subaru TOYA
  • Publication number: 20190375250
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 includes a carcass 6 extending between bead cores of bead portions via a tread portion 2 and sidewall portions, and a belt layer 7 arranged on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the carcass 6 and inside the tread portion 2. The pneumatic tire 1 has a noise damper 20 arranged on an inner cavity surface of the tread portion 2. Glass transition temperature of the noise damper 20 is in a range of from ?55 degrees Celsius to ?45 degrees Celsius.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masako NAKATANI, Takahiro KAWACHI, Ayuko YAMADA, Keiichi NAKADERA, Hiroshi ITO, Shuichiro ONO, Daiki MUKOUGUCHI, Tatsuhiro TANAKA, Tetsuya MAEKAWA, Subaru TOYA
  • Publication number: 20190366781
    Abstract: A pneumatic tyre (1) for decreasing running noise in a low temperature environment includes a noise damper (20) made of a porous material and fixed to a tyre inner cavity surface (16) of a tread portion (2). In the noise damper (20), hardness under a 25% compression load measured in accordance with Japanese Industrial standard JIS K6400-2 in an atmosphere of ?60 degrees Celsius is 110 kPa or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Takahiro KAWACHI
  • Publication number: 20190299722
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 comprises a carcass 6 extending between bead cores of bead portions via a tread portion 2 and sidewall portions, and a belt layer 7 arranged on an outer side in a tire radial direction of the carcass 6 and inside of the tread portion 2. The pneumatic tire 1 further comprises a damping rubber body 30 arranged between the carcass 6 and the belt layer 7, and a noise damper 20 arranged on an inner cavity surface of the tread portion 2. A width W1 in a tire axial direction of the damping rubber body 30 is in a range of from 60% to 130% of a width W2 in the tire axial direction of the belt layer 7, and a water absorption rate of the noise damper 20 is in a range of from 10% to 25%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masako NAKATANI, Takahiro KAWACHI, Ayuko YAMADA, Takuya HORIGUCHI, Masataka HIRO, Takayuki NAGASE, Hiroshi ITO, Fumiya KATO, Subaru TOYA
  • Publication number: 20190248182
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire 1 comprises a carcass 6 extending between a pair of bead portions 4, 4, an inner liner 10 arranged on an inner side in a tire radial direction of the carcass 6 and forming a tire inner cavity surface 16, and a noise damper 20 made of a porous material and fixed to the tire inner cavity surface 16 of the inner liner 10. A glass transition temperature Tg1 of the noise damper 20 is lower than a glass transition temperature Tg2 of the inner liner 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masako NAKATANI, Takahiro KAWACHI, Ayuko YAMADA, Masataka HIRO, Satomi YAMAUCHI, Shuichiro ONO, Tetsuya MAEKAWA, Natsuki MAEKAWA, Subaru TOYA