ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,455, issued on April 8, was assigned to BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).
"Transmission belt" was invented by Atsushi Taga (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transmission belt includes a belt body made of an elastomer, and a cord made of carbon fibers and provided to be embedded in the belt body and to form a helical pattern having a pitch in the belt width direction. When the cord is viewed from a side orthogonal to its length direction, an angle Theta of an outermost filament in the filament bundle of the carbon fibers forming the cord with respect to the length direction of the cord is 8deg or more to ...