US Patent Issued to Toyo Tire on Sept. 1 for "Non-pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,424, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Toyo Tire Corp. (Itami, Japan).

"Non-pneumatic tire" was invented by Yuko Matsunobu (Itami, Japan) and Yusuke Yamamoto (Itami, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire includes an inside and an outside annular part, and a plurality of spokes, in which a pair of inside sloped faces approaching the outside annular part from both ends in a tire-width direction towards the tire-width direction center is formed at an outer circumferential part of the inside annular part opposing the outside annular part, a pair of outside sloped faces approaching the inside annular part from both ends in the tire...