Patents by Inventor Yoshifumi KAWAGOE

Yoshifumi KAWAGOE 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: 10800212
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a first tread-half region from the tire equator to a first tread edge. In the first tread-half region, a crown land portion and a middle land portion are not provided with any grooves having widths equal to or more than 2 mm. In the first tread-half region, crown, middle and shoulder portions are respectively provided with a first crown sipe, a first middle sipe and a first shoulder sipe each having a width less than 2 mm. The first crown sipe, the first middle sipe and the first shoulder sipe are respectively configured as arc shapes having radiuses R1, R2 and R3 of curvature to protrude in a first circumferential direction side, wherein the radiuses R1, R2 and R3 are satisfied the following relation: R1<=R2<=R3, and R1<R3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Kawagoe, Masashi Wakasugi
  • Publication number: 20190308460
    Abstract: An outer shoulder land region includes first shoulder lateral grooves each extending axially inwardly from an outer tread ground contact edge to have a first inner end in the tyre axial direction within the outer shoulder land region, first outer shoulder lateral sipes each connecting between the first inner end and an outer shoulder main groove, and second outer shoulder lateral sipes each extending axially inwardly from the outer tread ground contact edge to have a second inner end positioned on an axially outer side of the first inner ends. An outer middle land region includes outer middle lateral sipes each smoothly connected with the respective first outer shoulder lateral sipe with the outer shoulder main groove therebetween. Each of the outer middle lateral sipes connects between the outer shoulder main groove and an outer crown main groove and has a third inner end within the outer middle land region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi KAWAGOE, Sawa OGIHARA, Daisuke AOKI
  • Publication number: 20180134087
    Abstract: A tire 1 comprises shoulder regions 4 each provided with first lateral grooves 7 and second lateral grooves 8 Each of the first lateral grooves 7 comprises an inner portion 11 extending axially outwardly from has an inner end (7i) arranged axially outside a crown main groove 3 with a space therebetween and obliquely at an angle ?1 with respect to the tire axial direction, and an outer portion 12 extending obliquely at an angle ?2 smaller than the angle ?1 with respect to the tire axial direction so as to cross a tread edge (Te). Each of the second lateral grooves 8 is arranged between adjacent first lateral grooves and extends axially outwardly from an inner end (8i) thereof arranged axially outside the crown main groove and obliquely in the same direction as the first lateral grooves 7 so as to terminate without reaching the tread edge (Te).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi OKADA, Yoshifumi KAWAGOE
  • Publication number: 20180009269
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a first tread-half region from the tire equator to a first tread edge. In the first tread-half region, a crown land portion and a middle land portion are not provided with any grooves having widths equal to or more than 2 mm. In the first tread-half region, crown, middle and shoulder portions are respectively provided with a first crown sipe, a first middle sipe and a first shoulder sipe each having a width less than 2 mm. The first crown sipe, the first middle sipe and the first shoulder sipe are respectively configured as arc shapes having radiuses R1, R2 and R3 of curvature to protrude in a first circumferential direction side, wherein the radiuses R1, R2 and R3 are satisfied the following relation: R1<=R2<=R3, and R1<R3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi KAWAGOE, Masashi WAKASUGI
  • Publication number: 20170368888
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread having a pair of crown grooves, a pair of shoulder grooves, a crown land, a pair of middle lands, and a pair of shoulder lands. No grooves having width of 2 mm or more are formed in the crown and middle lands, the tread has first and second halves and has first sipes in the first half such that each has width of less than 2 mm and extends from the crown to shoulder lands via the grooves, second sipes in the second half such that each has width of less than 2 mm and extends from the crown to shoulder lands via the grooves without reaching the ground contact edge, and third sipes in the middle land in the second half such that each has width of less than 2 mm and extends in axial direction between second sipes adjacent in circumferential direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi WAKASUGI, Yoshifumi KAWAGOE
  • Patent number: D872684
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Kawagoe
  • Patent number: D893400
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Kawagoe
  • Patent number: D893408
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Kawagoe