ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,093, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to JUNKOSHA INC. (Kasama, Japan).
"Heat-shrinkable tube having tearable properties" was invented by Masahiro Suzuki (Kasama, Japan) and Yasuyuki Kimura (Kasama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a tube which is rarely broken and is stable during the process of the production of a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability in a length direction. The tube includes a melt-processable fluororesin and when the strain of the tube is defined as Epsilon, the stress at the strain is defined as Sigma (MPa) and the strain Epsilon is put on the horizontal axis and the stress Sigma is p...