US Patent Issued to Proterial on July 28 for "Laminate structure, cable and tube" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,004, issued on July 28, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Laminate structure, cable and tube" was invented by Seiichi Kashimura (Tokyo), Kazufumi Suenaga (Tokyo), Tamotsu Kibe (Tokyo) and Kanako Suganuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laminate structure includes a first layer as a substrate and a second layer provided on the first layer. The second layer is composed of a rubber composition including a rubber component, first fine particles for providing a surface with irregularity, and second fine particles for shielding UV-C light. When performing Raman mapping analysis on a first peak derived from oscillation of the...