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).

  • Publication number: 20230286327
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20220297479
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 11396209
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20200307320
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 10787038
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20200298627
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 10632792
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20200031171
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20200001663
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a plurality of first protrusions provided at intervals in a tire circumferential direction, and a plurality of second protrusions provided adjacently so as to be alternately positioned with respect to the first protrusion in the tire circumferential direction. A length of each first protrusion in the tire circumferential direction is longer than a length of each second protrusion in the tire circumferential direction. The first protrusion has a first portion on both sides in the tire circumferential direction and the second protrusion has a second portion adjacent to the first portion in a tire radial direction, on both sides in the tire circumferential direction. The first protrusions face the respective second protrusions in the tire radial direction across a tire axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20190389254
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 10464376
    Abstract: On a tread portion, a plurality of blocks are formed by a plurality of main grooves annularly continuously extending in a tire circumferential direction, and a plurality of transverse grooves extending in a tire width direction, intersecting these main grooves. Each block has projections on side surfaces, which form each transverse groove, at corner regions thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D864100
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D883909
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D884589
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D900729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D993899
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D993902
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D995410
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D1012828
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D1015999
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Toyo Tire Corporation
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka