US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "Elastic and power generation body assembly for a tire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,927, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan) and THE SCHOOL CORPORATION KANSAI UNIVERSITY (Suita, Japan).

"Elastic and power generation body assembly for a tire" was invented by Mutsuki Sugimoto (Kobe, Japan), Hiroshi Tani (Suita, Japan), Kenichi Kuroda (Kobe, Japan), Takahiro Fujiwara (Kobe, Japan) and Kyota Sugioka (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire assembly includes a tire for mounting on a vehicle, an elastic body disposed on an inner side of the tire, and a power generation body disposed between an inner surface of the tire and the elastic body. The power generation body i...