US Patent Issued to Hankook Tire & Technology on Oct. 21 for "Tyre with bead profile structure for improving lateral stiffness" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,775, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hankook Tire & Technology Co. Ltd. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Tyre with bead profile structure for improving lateral stiffness" was invented by Moon Cheol Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sun Myung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment relates to a tyre with a bead profile structure, comprising a tread, sidewalls, and beads 10 for improving lateral stiffness, wherein the bead (10) has a range in which the X-coordinate is 8.8-9.7 mm and the Y-coordinate is 19.2-21.7 mm from origin (O), which is a common European Tyre and Rim Technical Organization (ETRTO) rim s...