Patents by Inventor Toshio Furutaka
Toshio Furutaka 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).
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Patent number: 10787041Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including, on an outer surface of its sidewall portion, a decorative portion including a print layer and a protective layer located on a tire outer side of the print layer. The decorative portion further includes an intermediate layer located between the print layer and the protective layer. When a storage modulus of the print layer, a storage modulus of the protective layer, and a storage modulus of the intermediate layer are respectively defined as E1?, E2?, and E3?, the following relational expression is satisfied: E2?>E3?>E1?.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro Mizotani, Nobuyuki Hirai, Takashi Kuwahara, Yuki Nakamura, Keita Oshikane, Toshio Furutaka, Yasuma Saito, Yukio Sugita
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Patent number: 10603963Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including, on an outer surface of its sidewall portion, a decorative portion including a print layer and inner and outer layers respectively disposed on tire inner and outer sides of the print layer. When storage moduli at 25° C. of the print, inner, and outer layers are respectively defined as E125?, E225?, and E325?, E125?<E225? and E125?<E325? are satisfied. When storage moduli at 80° C. of the print, inner, and outer layers are respectively defined as E180?, E280?, and E380?, and storage modulus variations ?1, ?2, and ?3 at high temperature of the print, inner, and outer layers are respectively defined as ?1=|E125??E180?|/E125?, ?2=|E225??E280?|/E225?, and ?3=|E325??E380?|/E325?, ?1<?2 and ?1<?3, and E225?>E280? and E325?>E380? are satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro Mizotani, Nobuyuki Hirai, Takashi Kuwahara, Yuki Nakamura, Keita Oshikane, Toshio Furutaka, Yasuma Saito, Yukio Sugita
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Publication number: 20170240002Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including, on an outer surface of its sidewall portion, a decorative portion including a print layer and a protective layer located on a tire outer side of the print layer. The decorative portion further includes an intermediate layer located between the print layer and the protective layer. When a storage modulus of the print layer, a storage modulus of the protective layer, and a storage modulus of the intermediate layer are respectively defined as E1?, E2?, and E3?, the following relational expression is satisfied: E2?>E3?>E1?.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro MIZOTANI, Nobuyuki HIRAI, Takashi KUWAHARA, Yuki NAKAMURA, Keita OSHIKANE, Toshio FURUTAKA, Yasuma SAITO, Yukio SUGITA
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Publication number: 20170225520Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire including, on an outer surface of its sidewall portion, a decorative portion including a print layer and inner and outer layers respectively disposed on tire inner and outer sides of the print layer. When storage moduli at 25° C. of the print, inner, and outer layers are respectively defined as E125?, E225?, and E325?, E125?<E225? and E125?<E325? are satisfied. When storage moduli at 80° C. of the print, inner, and outer layers are respectively defined as E180?, E280?, and E380?, and storage modulus variations ?1, ?2, and ?3 at high temperature of the print, inner, and outer layers are respectively defined as ?1=|E125??E180?|/E125?, ?2=|E225??E280?|/E225?, and ?3=|E325??E380?|/E325?, ?1<?2 and ?1<?3, and E225?>E280? and E325?>E380? are satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATIONInventors: Kentaro MIZOTANI, Nobuyuki HIRAI, Takashi KUWAHARA, Yuki NAKAMURA, Keita OSHIKANE, Toshio FURUTAKA, Yasuma SAITO, Yukio SUGITA
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Patent number: 9415638Abstract: Provided is a decorative tire in which an ink composition including a colorant is directly applied onto the tire surface in order to improve the degree of flexibility in design. This decorative tire has a decorative printed layer formed on the tire surface, the decorative printed layer being a cured film of an active-energy-ray-curable ink composition including a colorant. The ink composition includes a monofunctional monomer having a glass transition point of ?30° C. or lower, and a polyfunctional monomer having a glass transition point of 0° C. or lower. Preferably, the ink composition further includes a monofunctional monomer having an alicyclic structure with a glass transition point between 0-110° C. inclusive. Preferably, a surface protection layer that protects the surface of the decorative printed layer is formed on the surface of the decorative printed layer. Also, preferably, a primer layer is formed between the tire surface and the decorative printed layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2013Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Bridgestone CorporationInventors: Yasuma Saito, Toshio Furutaka, Yukio Sugita, Yuki Nakamura, Kojiro Torisu, Akihiko Hajikano
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Publication number: 20160185987Abstract: Provided is a laminate body having a decorative layer formed on the surface thereof, having excellent cracking resistance and external appearance retention even in an environment such as one in which the base material undergoes repeated expansion and contraction. A laminate body on which a decorative layer, which is a cured film made from an active-energy-ray-curable ink composition, is formed on a stretchable base material, wherein the cured film contains a cured product comprising: a monofunctional monomer (monomer (A)) having a glass transition point at or below ?30° C.; and an alkylene-oxide-modified tri- or higher-functional monomer (monomer (B)) in which the number of alkylene oxide modifications/number of functional groups, which is the ratio of the number of alkylene oxide modifications and the number of functional groups, is 3 or greater, the number of cracks in a test piece of the cured film after prescribed repeated tensile testing being 3 or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2014Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventors: Yasuma Saito, Gaku Moriyama, Toshio Furutaka
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Publication number: 20160145465Abstract: Provided are: a surface protection layer composition having excellent damage resistance, and followability with respect to expansion and contraction of an elastic base material; and a decorative body using the same. This surface protection layer composition includes a silicone-modified (meth)acrylate-based resin having a glass transition point (Tg) of 0° C. or less, and a carbonate-modified urethane resin. The surface protection layer composition is used to configure a surface protection layer for protecting: an elastomer base material, or a base material having a Young's modulus of 0.001 MPa to ?30 MPa inclusive; and the surface of the decorative layer which is a cured film of an ink composition formed on the base material. Thus, adhesion to the decorative layer is excellent, and with respect to expansion and contraction of the base material, followability, and damage resistance, and the like, are excellent.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Toshio Furutaka, Gaku Moriyama, Yasuma Saito
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Publication number: 20150017398Abstract: Provided is an ink composition having excellent conformability even to a flexible base material to be printed. This active-energy-ray-curable ink composition comprises active-energy-ray-polymerizable monomers and an active-energy-ray polymerization initiator. The active-energy-ray-polymerizable monomers include: monomer A which is a monofunctional monomer having a glass transition point of ?30° C. or lower; and monomer B which is a polyfunctional monomer having a glass transition point of 0° C. or lower. Preferably, said monomer B is a bifunctional monomer having a glass transition point of ?30° C. or lower. Preferably, the active-energy-ray-polymerizable monomers further include monomer C which is a monofunctional monomer having an alicyclic structure with a glass transition point between 0-110° C. inclusive. The ink composition may also include a colorant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Yasuma Saito, Toshio Furutaka, Yukio Sugita
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Publication number: 20150010737Abstract: Provided is a decorative tire in which an ink composition including a colorant is directly applied onto the tire surface in order to improve the degree of flexibility in design. This decorative tire has a decorative printed layer formed on the tire surface, the decorative printed layer being a cured film of an active-energy-ray-curable ink composition including a colorant. The ink composition includes a monofunctional monomer having a glass transition point of ?30° C. or lower, and a polyfunctional monomer having a glass transition point of 0° C. or lower. Preferably, the ink composition further includes a monofunctional monomer having an alicyclic structure with a glass transition point between 0-110° C. inclusive. Preferably, a surface protection layer that protects the surface of the decorative printed layer is formed on the surface of the decorative printed layer. Also, preferably, a primer layer is formed between the tire surface and the decorative printed layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Yasuma Saito, Toshio Furutaka, Yukio Sugita, Yuki Nakamura, Kojiro Torisu, Akihiko Hajikano