US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Aug. 25 for "Manufacturing method and forming device for tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,190, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Manufacturing method and forming device for tire" was invented by Yuta Takanashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a tire manufacturing method, one band-like strip material is sequentially supplied through one strip material supply line. By repeating a step of bonding the strip material placed in an arrangement unit by a holding machine to a forming surface on the outer circumferential side of the rigid core using a bonding mechanism, a belt layer in which the strip materials are arranged in the circumferential direction with reinforcing c...