US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Nov. 3 for "Conveyor belt and method of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,553, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Conveyor belt and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Ryotaro Suefuji (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyor belt includes upper and lower cover rubbers respectively disposed on upper and lower sides of a core layer sandwiched therebetween, a breaker layer disposed between the core layer and the upper cover rubber, and the breaker layer has a structure including a fabric having warp threads extending in a belt longitudinal direction and weft threads extending in a belt width direction and upper and lower coating r...