US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on Sept. 1 for "Non-pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,423, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Non-pneumatic tire" was invented by Shinichi Eguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The problem of this disclosure is to provide a non-pneumatic tire that achieves both ride comfort and durability, even in a small diameter size. The solution is a non-pneumatic tire (1) using a resin composition as a skeletal member, wherein the resin composition has a bending modulus of elasticity of 247 MPa or less at -20deg deg C. in accordance with ISO 178 and a bending modulus of elasticity of 32 MPa or more at 60deg C. in accordance with ISO 178, and a tire diameter D in t...