ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,110, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BANDO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD. (Kobe, Japan).
"Friction transmission belt" was invented by Yuya Shindo (Kobe, Japan), Shogo Kobayashi (Kobe, Japan) and Kazuaki Matsuda (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A friction transmission belt includes a compression layer forming a pulley contact portion, the compression layer includes an inner layer formed from a rubber composition and an outer layer provided on a pulley contact side of the inner layer and formed from a fiber member, and a ratio (M10 modulus/M50 modulus) of an modulus at 10% elongation in a belt longitudinal direction (M10 modu...