US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Aug. 25 for "Housing body with functional component, and tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,251, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Housing body with functional component, and tire" was invented by Haruna Wakabayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing body is adapted to house a functional component to acquire tire information. The functional component includes a housing and a piezoelectric element fixed to a wall surface of the housing. A projection is formed on an inner surface of the housing body. The projection and the piezoelectric element are directly or indirectly in contact with each other via the wall surface of the housing in an unloaded state and in a s...