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).

  • Patent number: 10358001
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire including a plurality of main grooves extending in a tire circumference direction and ribs interposed between the two main grooves out of the plurality of main grooves, the ribs include a narrow groove including first narrow groove portions extending in one direction and second narrow groove portions extending in a direction different from the one direction and being arranged alternately in a zigzag pattern, the first narrow groove portions each include a bent portion and a narrow groove bottom sipe at a groove bottom of a portion including the bent portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 10343460
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a plurality of first shoulder blocks arranged in a tire circumference direction cn a main groove side in a shoulder land portion, and a plurality of second shoulder blocks arranged in the tire circumference direction on a tire ground contact end side in the shoulder land portion, in which the first shoulder blocks and the second shoulder blocks are arranged alternately in the tire circumference direction, the first shoulder blocks each include a protruding portion protruding into: a space between two of the second shoulder blocks arranged in the tire circumference direction, at least at the time of being grounded, the protruding portion overlaps in the tire circumference direction with the second shoulder blocks on both sides in the tire circumference direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 10308078
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a sipe formed in a land portion of a tread surface. The sipe has a 2D center portion, a 3D center portion and 3D side portion. The 2D center portion is positioned in a sipe bottom side at a center in a length direction. The 3D center portion is positioned in a top surface side at the center in the length direction. The 3D side portion is positioned in one end or both ends in the length direction. The 3D center portion and the 3D side portion are open at the top surface. A three-dimensional shape of the 3D center portion has a structure in which wall surfaces are engageable with each other in the length direction. A three-dimensional shape of the 3D side portion has a structure in which wall surfaces are engageable with each other in the depth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 10266010
    Abstract: Blocks are formed on a tread surface of a pneumatic tire by main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction and lateral grooves which intersect with the main grooves. The blocks include: center blocks which are positioned in a center region in the tire width direction; shoulder blocks which are positioned on both side regions in the tire width direction; and mediate blocks which are positioned in an intermediate region between the center blocks and the shoulder blocks. The lateral groove formed between the shoulder blocks and the lateral groove formed between the mediate blocks which are positionally displaced from each other in the tire circumferential direction are connected to each other via the main groove by an auxiliary block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 10245895
    Abstract: A sipe is formed in a land portion of a tread surface. The sipe has a 3D sipe portion formed into a three-dimensional shape which changes along a depth direction, and a 2D sipe portion formed into a two-dimensional shape which does not change along the depth direction. The 3D sipe portion extends in the depth direction from the tread surface and terminates at a position which does not reach a sipe bottom. The 2D sipe portion extends in the depth direction from a terminated position of the 3D sipe portion and reaches the sipe bottom. The three-dimensional shape of the 3D sipe portion is formed into a sideways V-shaped form which is bent at one position in the depth direction. Both ends of the sipe are closed within the land portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 10239360
    Abstract: The pneumatic tire includes a tread portion having lug grooves, and side portions which are contiguously formed with the tread portion. Projections which differ in at least one of a shape and a size are arranged on a side portion in a plurality of rows in a tire radial direction. Opening positions of small lug grooves on both sides of the tread portion are made to agree with a straight line which passes the projection and extends in the tire radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 10144251
    Abstract: On a tread portion, a plurality of blocks defined by a plurality of main grooves and a plurality of transverse grooves. The main grooves annularly and continuously extend in a tire circumferential direction. The transverse grooves extend in a tire width direction so as to intersect the main grooves. The plurality of blocks include a center block located at a center in the tire width direction and having, on a surface thereof, a first groove with closed both ends and a second groove joining the first groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 10000092
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a first shallow groove extending in a zigzag manner at the shoulder rib and second shallow grooves extending in the tire width direction and arranged at regular intervals in the tire circumferential direction at inner mediate ribs and center rib or ribs. A wall of each section divided by the second shallow grooves includes a central wall surface extending from one end on an interior widthwise of a center main groove to an other end on an exterior widthwise of the center main groove, a first wall surface extending from the one end of the central wall surface, and a second wall surface extending from the other end of the central wall surface. The first wall surfaces of the inner mediate ribs and the first wall surfaces of the center rib or ribs are mutually opposed across the center main groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20180126796
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes; a tread, portion; and a side portion formed continuously from the tread portion on a tire width direction side. The side portion includes: a projecting ridge extending in a tire circumferential direction; and projections arranged at predetermined intervals in the tire circumferential direction. The projections are formed such that a width of each projection is gradually narrowed toward the projecting ridge from a tire outer diameter side, and includes a distal end portion disposed inside of a region where the projecting ridge is positioned. A groove is formed between the projection and the projecting ridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20180126797
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes: a tread portion; and a side portion formed continuously from the tread portion on a tire width direction side. The side portion includes: a projecting ridge extending in a tire circumferential direction; and a plurality of projections arranged at a predetermined intervals in the tire circumferential direction. The projections are formed such that a width of each projection is gradually narrowed toward the projecting ridge from a tire outer diameter side, and includes a distal end portion disposed in the inside of a region where the projecting ridge is positioned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: 9950573
    Abstract: Blocks are formed on a tread surface of a pneumatic tire by main grooves extending in the tire circumferential direction and lateral grooves which intersect with the main grooves. A size of the block in the tire width direction of the tread surface is set larger than a size of the block in the tire circumferential direction of the tread surface. The blocks include: center blocks which are positioned in a center region in the tire width direction; shoulder blocks which are positioned on both side regions in the tire width direction; and mediate blocks which are positioned in an intermediate region between the center blocks and the shoulder blocks. A recessed portion is formed on an approximately center portions of the shoulder blocks and the mediate blocks excluding the center blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20180001709
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire having main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and land portions partitioned by the main grooves in a tread portion, a plurality of protrusions are disposed at a groove bottom of the main groove at intervals in a groove length direction, and a side surface portion of the protrusion is connected to a side surface portion of the land portion via a connecting portion having a height equal to or less than a height of the protrusion and a width narrower than a width of the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20180001713
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, a plurality of main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction, a plurality of lateral grooves extending in a direction intersecting the main grooves, and block rows formed by the main grooves and the lateral grooves is provided at a tread portion. Recessed notches extending from a block upper surface to a block bottom portion are respectively provided in side surface portions of the blocks facing each other with the main groove interposed therebetween, and a reinforcing projection portion connecting the notches is provided in the groove bottom of the main groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20180001711
    Abstract: In a pneumatic tire, three or four zigzag main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction with amplitude in a tire width direction, a plurality of lateral grooves extending in a direction intersecting the main grooves, and block rows formed by the main grooves and the lateral grooves are provided at a tread portion. When a tire is grounded, a ratio of a total sum of lengths of groove center lines of the main grooves in a ground contact surface to a total sum of lengths of amplitude center lines of the main grooves in the ground contact surface is set to 1.05 to 1.25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20180001710
    Abstract: A block includes a pair of longitudinal side surface portions facing the main grooves and a pair of lateral side surface portions facing the lateral grooves. The pair of longitudinal side surface portions includes a pair of first longitudinal side surface portions that has ridgelines inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction, and a pair of second longitudinal side surface portions that has ridgelines shorter than ridgelines of the first longitudinal side surface portions and inclined greater than the ridgelines of the first longitudinal side surface portions. In the shoulder block, notches are provided at a central portion of the pair of first longitudinal side surface portions, a first sipe that is opened to the notches and connects the notches on both sides is provided, and second sipes of which the both ends terminate within the block are provided on both sides of the first sipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20180001708
    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: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Publication number: 20180001707
    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: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D833381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D848938
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka
  • Patent number: D853318
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Fujioka