US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on June 2 for "Desulfurized rubber, rubber composition, rubber composition for tire, tire, hose, belt, crawler" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,960, issued on June 2, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Desulfurized rubber, rubber composition, rubber composition for tire, tire, hose, belt, crawler" was invented by Masayuki Taniguchi (Tokyo) and Takumi Toda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a desulfurized rubber capable of producing a crosslinked rubber having an excellent mechanical strength. The desulfurized rubber contains a solvent-soluble rubber component A having a weight-average molecular weight of more than 260,000 and less than 600,000, and a solvent-insoluble rubber component B, wherein the content ratio of the rubber component B is less than ...