US Patent Issued to TOYO TIRE on March 31 for "Green tire manufacturing method and green tire manufacturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,567, issued on March 31, was assigned to TOYO TIRE Corp. (Itami, Japan).

"Green tire manufacturing method and green tire manufacturing apparatus" was invented by Kazuma Hanafusa (Itami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A green tire manufacturing method according to an embodiment includes molding a combined body by attaching a belt band to an outer circumferential surface of a carcass band substantially expanded into a tire shape at a combined body molding position, pressing a surface of the combined body, moving the combined body from the combined body molding position to a sidewall molding position, and molding a sidewall on a ...