US Patent Issued to Mitsuboshi Belting on Dec. 30 for "Frictional transmission belt and production method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,132, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Frictional transmission belt and production method therefor" was invented by Kentaro Yoshimura (Hyogo, Japan), Masaki Shibata (Hyogo, Japan), Hiroki Takechi (Hyogo, Japan) and Shohei Daiko (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frictional power transmission belt includes a compression rubber layer having a frictional power transmission surface that is covered with a fabric. The compression rubber layer includes an inner rubber layer in contact with the fabric and an outer rubber layer on an outer peripheral side of the inner rubber layer. The inne...