Patents by Inventor Tsuyoshi Fujioka
Tsuyoshi Fujioka 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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Publication number: 20240343070Abstract: A first block including a pair of block circumferential groove surfaces including a first notch, and a pair of block axial groove surfaces. Each of the pair of block axial groove surfaces includes a first straight block end, a second straight block end, and a third straight block end. The first block includes a first thin groove connecting the first notches of the pair of block circumferential groove surfaces. The first thin groove including a first straight portion, a second straight portion, and a third straight portion. The first straight portion is disposed on a first bisector that bisects an area between the first straight block ends. The second straight portion is disposed on a second bisector that bisects an area between the second straight block ends. The third straight portion is disposed on a third bisector that bisects an area between the third straight block ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Publication number: 20240343072Abstract: A pneumatic tire of the present disclosure includes a plurality of main grooves extending along a tire circumferential direction, wherein the plurality of main grooves include at least one zigzag main groove extending in a zigzag shape along the tire circumferential direction, the zigzag main groove includes a plurality of protrusions protruding from a bottom surface of the zigzag main groove, and a plurality of connection portions connecting the plurality of protrusions to a wall surface of the zigzag main groove, and the plurality of protrusions are arranged so as to overlap with each other as viewed in the tire circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi FUJIOKA
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Patent number: 12083831Abstract: A center land has first center notches, second center notches, center slits, a first land end and a second land end. The first center notches and the center slits open onto the first land end in alternating fashion as one proceeds along a tire circumferential direction. The second center notches and the center slits open onto the second land end in alternating fashion as one proceeds along the tire circumferential direction. A quarter land has first quarter slits, first quarter notches, second quarter slits, second quarter notches, a third land end and a fourth land end. The first quarter slits and the first quarter notches open onto the third land end in alternating fashion as one proceeds along the tire circumferential direction. The second quarter slits and the second quarter notches open onto the fourth land end in alternating fashion as one proceeds along the tire circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Publication number: 20230286327Abstract: A pneumatic tire according to an embodiment includes a main groove extending in a tire circumferential direction on a tread, and a plurality of protrusions protruding from a bottom of the main groove and connected to walls on both sides in a tire axial direction of the main groove. Each of the protrusions is provided with a narrow groove extending in an extending direction of the main groove and dividing the protrusion into both sides in the tire axial direction, and the bottom of the narrow groove is at a higher position than the bottom of the main groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Publication number: 20220297479Abstract: A center land has first center notches, second center notches, center slits, a first land end and a second land end. The first center notches and the center slits open onto the first land end in alternating fashion as one proceeds along a tire circumferential direction. The second center notches and the center slits open onto the second land end in alternating fashion as one proceeds along the tire circumferential direction. A quarter land has first quarter slits, first quarter notches, second quarter slits, second quarter notches, a third land end and a fourth land end. The first quarter slits and the first quarter notches open onto the third land end in alternating fashion as one proceeds along the tire circumferential direction. The second quarter slits and the second quarter notches open onto the fourth land end in alternating fashion as one proceeds along the tire circumferential direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: 11396209Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a plurality of main grooves each extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a shoulder rib formed by a shoulder main groove included in the main grooves. The shoulder rib is formed in an outer part of the pneumatic tire in a tire width direction. The shoulder rib includes a closed slit that communicates with the shoulder main groove and ends in the shoulder rib. The shoulder main groove includes a protrusion that extends into the closed slit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Publication number: 20200307320Abstract: A tire has a first rib, a second rib and a third rib. The second rib and the third rib are adjacent to the first rib. The first rib has a first closed sipe that terminates within the first rib. The second rib has a second closed sipe that terminates within the second rib. The third rib has a third closed sipe that terminates within the third rib. The second closed sipe and the third closed sipe are inclined in mutually similar fashion with respect to the tire width direction. The first closed sipe is inclined in opposite fashion with respect to the tire width direction as the second closed sipe and the third closed sipe are inclined with respect to the tire width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: 10787038Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion that is provided with two block rows formed of three circumferential grooves and a plurality of first transverse grooves. A block that configures the block rows has a hexagonal shape, and has a diagonal extension line passing through a pair of vertices positioned in the central portion in the tire-circumferential direction, the diagonal extension line overlapping, in the tire-circumferential direction, the first transverse groove of the adjacent block rows. The block has a first sipe that is terminated within a block extending in the tire-width direction. The first sipe is provided at a position shifted from the diagonal extension line in the tire-circumferential direction and in a region interposed between planes that are formed by extending, in a direction in which the first transverse groove extends, from a pair of groove wall surfaces of the first transverse groove of the adjacent block rows.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Publication number: 20200298627Abstract: A tire has a first block that is partitioned by a first pair of major grooves, the first block land making up a first block column arranged along a tire circumferential direction. The first block land has a first closed sipe and a first open sipe. The first closed sipe appears wavelike as seen in plan view, extends in a tire width direction, and has two ends that respectively terminate within the first block. The first open sipe appears wavelike as seen in plan view and has two ends that respectively open into the first pair of major grooves central location in the tire circumferential direction of the first block land. An amplitude of the first open sipe is greater than amplitude of the first closed sipe. A wavelength of the first open sipe is less than wavelength of the first closed sipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: 10632792Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a sidewall portion having an outer wall surface that is provided with a first protrusion extending to have an annular shape in a tire-circumferential direction, and a plurality of second protrusions disposed at intervals in the tire-circumferential direction. The first protrusion is provided, in a tire-radial direction, in a region having a range of 80% of a length H from a tire-maximum-width position to a tire-outermost-diameter point in the tire-radial direction with the tire-maximum-width position as the center. The second protrusion is provided with a connection portion that extends in the tire-circumferential direction and is connected to the first protrusion on the outer side in the tire-radial direction, and a pair of radial projection portions that projects outward in the tire-radial direction from both end portions of the connection portion in the tire-circumferential direction and is disposed at an interval in the tire-circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Publication number: 20200031171Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire in which a plurality of ribs which extend in a tire circumferential direction are formed in a tread portion by a plurality of main grooves which extend in the tire circumferential direction, wherein, in a center rib of the plurality of ribs, the center rib being divided at a center portion in a tire width direction, a plurality of closing slits which each extend in the tire width direction from one end portion communicating with the main groove, and terminate at another end portion in the center rib is formed, and wherein the plurality of closing slits are formed so as to be opposed to each other on both sides of the center rib in the tire width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATIONInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: D883909Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: D884589Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: D900729Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: D993899Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: D993902Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: D995410Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: D1012828Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: D1015999Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
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Patent number: D1044698Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: Toyo Tire CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka