ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,730, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).
"Method for estimating abrasion resistance" was invented by Fusae Kaneko (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kishimoto (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for estimating abrasion resistance of polymer composite materials. The present disclosure relates to a method for estimating abrasion resistance, the method including: irradiating a sulfur compound-containing polymer composite material with high intensity X-rays; measuring an X-ray absorption in a small region of the polymer composite material while varying an energy of the X-...