US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on July 14 for "Pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,143, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Takamitsu Chaya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a pneumatic tire, at least one carcass layer mounted between a pair of bead portions is formed from a carcass cord formed of an organic fiber cord having filament bundles of organic fibers intertwined together, a fineness based on corrected mass of the carcass cord is from 4000 dtex to 8000 dtex, an intermediate elongation of the carcass cord at the sidewall portion under 1.0 cN/dtex load is from 3.3% to 4.2%, and an elongation at breakage of the carcass cord...