US Patent Issued to NIPPON FILCON on May 27 for "Industrial fabric" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,716, issued on May 27, was assigned to NIPPON FILCON Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Industrial fabric" was invented by Shigenobu Fujisawa (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yusuke Nomura (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Binding warps have first and second binding warps arranged vertically in a pair and a third binding warp forming knuckles passing above upper surface side wefts. Upper surface side warps include an upper surface side collapsing yarn forming a pair with the third binding warp. The upper surface side collapsing yarn passes below the wefts and collapses a part of the upper surface side obverse surface texture at a position where t...