Patents by Inventor Yuki Sasaya
Yuki Sasaya 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: 12103336Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes protrusion portions formed on at least one tire side portion of tire side portions located on both sides in a width direction, projecting from a tire side surface that is a surface of the tire side portion, and extending along the tire side surface, the protrusion portions having an angle ? within a range of no less than 6% and no more than 50% of an angle of one round in a circumferential direction, the angle ? being relative and in the circumferential direction between two protrusion portion end position lines that respectively extend in a radial direction through different end portions of both end portions in an extending direction of the protrusion portions, and the tire side portion having a thickness at a tire maximum width position within a range of no less than 2 mm and no more than 9 mm.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.Inventors: Hiraku Koda, Masaaki Nagayasu, Ryohei Takemori, Yuki Sasaya
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Patent number: 11833860Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. At least one land portion is defined and formed by a plurality of circumferential main grooves provided in a tread surface. A main sipe including a body portion and a chamfered portion is formed in at least one side of the body portion. A branch sipe branching from the chamfered portion is provided. The depth of the body portion is equal to or greater than the depth of the branch sipe.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.Inventors: Hiraku Koda, Ryohei Takemori, Yuki Sasaya
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Publication number: 20220203778Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire. At least one land portion is defined and formed by a plurality of circumferential main grooves provided in a tread surface. A main sipe including a body portion and a chamfered portion is formed in at least one side of the body portion. A branch sipe branching from the chamfered portion is provided. The depth of the body portion is equal to or greater than the depth of the branch sipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Hiraku KODA, Ryohei TAKEMORI, Yuki SASAYA
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Patent number: 11364750Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided. In a meridian cross-section, an external contour shape of the bead core is a polygon formed by common tangent lines of a plurality of circumferential portions of a bead wire, the external contour shape includes a single vertex located toward the outside in a tire radial direction, an internal angle formed by two sides sandwiching the vertex is an acute angle, a bottom side of the external contour shape is inclined with respect to the tire lateral direction by from 2° to 9°, and the carcass layer is bent and folded back along a circumference of the bead core in a bead portion, a folded back portion of the carcass layer from a position of an outer end of the bead core in the tire radial direction extends toward a sidewall portion in contact with a body portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.Inventors: Ryohei Takemori, Masaaki Nagayasu, Yuki Sasaya, Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda
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Publication number: 20220161606Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire with wet steering stability performance and dry steering stability performance enhanced in a well-balanced manner. A dimple group is composed of a plurality of dimples (100 to 104) disposed at intervals and aligned in a tire circumferential direction. When the minimum center-to-center distance between different dimples (100, 102) in an identical dimple group is defined as K and the minimum center-to-center distance between dimples (104, 100) in different dimple groups is defined as L, the ratio L/K is 3.5 or more and 10.0 or less and the minimum center-to-center distance L is 20 mm or more and equal to or less than a ground contact length.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Hiraku KODA, Ryohei TAKEMORI, Yuki SASAYA
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Patent number: 11331960Abstract: Of layers configuring a bead core of a pneumatic tire, the width W0 of one of the layers including the greatest number of rows, the width W1, W2 of other of the layers located respectively innermost and outermost in the radial direction satisfy W1>W2 and W2?0.5×W0. The position of width W0 is inward in the radial direction of the center of the bead core. A carcass is folded and curved along the bead core and extends toward sidewalls where a folded back portion of the carcass contacts a body of the carcass. A rubber occupancy ratio in a closed region formed by the body and the folded back portion is 0.1% to 15%. The cross-sectional area S2 and hardness H2 of a filler outward of the carcass in the lateral direction, and the cross-sectional area S1 and the hardness H1 of the side reinforcing layer satisfy 0.12?(S2×H2)/(S1×H1)?0.50.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda, Masaaki Nagayasu, Yuki Sasaya, Ryohei Takemori
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Patent number: 11260702Abstract: In a cross-section of a pneumatic tire, a contour of the bead core is a polygon formed by tangent lines of circumferential portions of a bead wire, the contour includes a vertex with an acute angle and a bottom side opposite the vertex, the carcass layer is folded back along a circumference of the bead core in a bead portion, a folded back portion of the carcass layer from an outer end of the bead core extends in the radial direction, and a distance in the radial direction between a center of an arc profile of a tire outer surface and a straight line extending in the lateral direction through the vertex is within 20% of a radius r of the arc, and a distance in the lateral direction between the center of the arc and a straight line extending in the radial direction through the vertex is within 2r±0.4r.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventors: Yuki Sasaya, Masaaki Nagayasu, Ryohei Takemori, Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda
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Publication number: 20210268844Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes protrusion portions formed on at least one tire side portion of tire side portions located on both sides in a width direction, projecting from a tire side surface that is a surface of the tire side portion, and extending along the tire side surface, the protrusion portions having an angle ? within a range of no less than 6% and no more than 50% of an angle of one round in a circumferential direction, the angle ? being relative and in the circumferential direction between two protrusion portion end position lines that respectively extend in a radial direction through different end portions of both end portions in an extending direction of the protrusion portions, and the tire side portion having a thickness at a tire maximum width position within a range of no less than 2 mm and no more than 9 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Hiraku Koda, Masaaki Nagayasu, Ryohei Takemori, Yuki Sasaya
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Publication number: 20210268845Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes protrusion portions formed on, extending along, and projecting from at least one tire side portion, the protrusion portions including at least one bend portion at a position where a direction in which the protrusion portion extends changes, and also including extending portions defined by the bend portion. Where the extending portion disposed on an outermost side in the radial direction among the extending portions is taken to be a first extending portion, a highest extending portion that is the extending portion in which an average extending portion height that is an average height from the tire side portion of each extending portion is highest is any one of the extending portions other than the first extending portion. The tire side portion has a thickness at a tire maximum width position within a range of no less than 2 mm and no more than 9 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Masaaki Nagayasu, Hiraku Kouda, Ryohei Takemori, Yuki Sasaya
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Publication number: 20210268846Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes protrusion portions projecting from and extending along a tire side portion, the protrusion portions being disposed on an outer side in a tire radial direction in an placement region that is a region from a position of 15% to a position of 85% of a tire cross-sectional height from a reference position on an inner side in the tire radial direction of the tire cross-sectional height, and including a first extending portion extending along the tire side portion in a single arc shape or a single straight shape, the first extending portion having a length within a range of no less than 1.0 and no more 6.0 times a height in the tire radial direction of the placement region, and the tire side portion having a thickness at a tire maximum width position within from 2 mm to 9 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2019Publication date: September 2, 2021Inventors: Yuki Sasaya, Masaaki Nagayasu, Ryohei Takemori, Hiraku Kouda
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Publication number: 20210260935Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes protrusion portions formed on a side portion of tire side portions located on both sides in a width direction, projecting from a side surface of the side portion, and extending along the side surface, the protrusion portions including a bend portion where a direction in which the protrusion portions extend changes, and also including extending portions defined by the bend portion, a width of the extending portions changing at a position straddling the bend portion, a first extending portion having the longest length among the extending portions having a maximum width of no less than 1.0 mm and no more than 3.0 mm, and a thickness of the side portion at a maximum tire width position being no less than 2 mm and no more than 9 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2019Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Ryohei Takemori, Hiraku Kouda, Masaaki Nagayasu, Yuki Sasaya
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Patent number: 11040580Abstract: In a pneumatic tire including a side reinforcing layer, the maximum width W0 of a bead core and the widths W1, W2 of the bead core at innermost and outermost sides in the radial direction, respectively, satisfy W1>W2 and W2?0.5×W0. W0 is toward the inside of the center of the bead core in the radial direction. A carcass is folded and curved along the bead core, and a folded back portion of the carcass extends toward the sidewalls while contacting a body of the carcass. A rubber occupancy ratio in a region formed by the body and the folded back portion of the carcass is 0.1% to 15%. The cross-sectional area S2 of a filler toward the outside of the carcass in the lateral direction, the hardness H2 of the filler, the cross-sectional area S1 of a side reinforcing layer and the hardness H1 of the side reinforcing layer satisfy 0.15?(S2×H2)/(S1×H1)?0.60.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Inventors: Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda, Atsushi Tanno, Masaaki Nagayasu, Ryohei Takemori, Yuki Sasaya
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Publication number: 20210170806Abstract: In a cross-section of a pneumatic tire, a contour of the bead core is a polygon formed by tangent lines of circumferential portions of a bead wire, the contour includes a vertex with an acute angle and a bottom side opposite the vertex, the carcass layer is folded back along a circumference of the bead core in a bead portion, a folded back portion of the carcass layer from an outer end of the bead core extends in the radial direction, and a distance in the radial direction between a center of an arc profile of a tire outer surface and a straight line extending in the lateral direction through the vertex is within 20% of a radius r of the arc, and a distance in the lateral direction between the center of the arc and a straight line extending in the radial direction through the vertex is within 2r±0.4r.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Yuki Sasaya, Masaaki Nagayasu, Ryohei Takemori, Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda
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Publication number: 20210170807Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided. In a meridian cross-section, an external contour shape of the bead core is a polygon formed by common tangent lines of a plurality of circumferential portions of a bead wire, the external contour shape includes a single vertex located toward the outside in a tire radial direction, an internal angle formed by two sides sandwiching the vertex is an acute angle, a bottom side of the external contour shape is inclined with respect to the tire lateral direction by from 2° to 9°, and the carcass layer is bent and folded back along a circumference of the bead core in a bead portion, a folded back portion of the carcass layer from a position of an outer end of the bead core in the tire radial direction extends toward a sidewall portion in contact with a body portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Ryohei Takemori, Masaaki Nagayasu, Yuki Sasaya, Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda
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Publication number: 20200376903Abstract: In a pneumatic tire including a side reinforcing layer, the maximum width W0of a bead core and the widths W1, W2 of the bead core at innermost and outermost sides in the radial direction, respectively, satisfy W1>W2 and W2?0.5×W0. W0 is toward the inside of the center of the bead core in the radial direction. A carcass is folded and curved along the bead core, and a folded back portion of the carcass extends toward the sidewalls while contacting a body of the carcass. A rubber occupancy ratio in a region formed by the body and the folded back portion of the carcass is 0.1% to 15%. The cross-sectional area S2 of a filler toward the outside of the carcass in the lateral direction, the hardness H2 of the filler, the cross-sectional area S1of a side reinforcing layer and the hardness H1 of the side reinforcing layer satisfy 0.15?(S2×H2)/(S1×H1)?0.60.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda, Atsushi Tanno, Masaaki Nagayasu, Ryohei Takemori, Yuki Sasaya
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Publication number: 20200376904Abstract: Of layers configuring a bead core of a pneumatic tire, the width W0 of one of the layers including the greatest number of rows, the width W1, W2 of other of the layers located respectively innermost and outermost in the radial direction satisfy W1>W2 and W2?0.5×W0. The position of width W0 is inward in the radial direction of the center of the bead core. A carcass is folded and curved along the bead core and extends toward sidewalls where a folded back portion of the carcass contacts a body of the carcass. A rubber occupancy ratio in a closed region formed by the body and the folded back portion is 0.1% to 15%. The cross-sectional area S2 and hardness H2 of a filler outward of the carcass in the lateral direction, and the cross-sectional area S1 and the hardness H1 of the side reinforcing layer satisfy 0.12?(S2×H2)/(S1×H1)?0.50.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Atsushi Tanno, Hiraku Kouda, Jun Matsuda, Masaaki Nagayasu, Yuki Sasaya, Ryohei Takemori