US Patent Issued to BRIDGESTONE on Sept. 1 for "Rubber crawler and core" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,725, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BRIDGESTONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rubber crawler and core" was invented by Takashi Mizusawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rubber crawler 1 includes an endless crawler body 12 made of rubber, and a plurality of cores 13 embedded in the crawler body and arranged along the crawler circumferential direction, where at least a first projection on the crawler width direction first side in a pair of first projections of each core has a first recess R1 on a surface facing a second projection of another core of the surfaces on the two sides in the crawler width direction."

The patent was filed on Au...