US Patent Issued to Shoichi Ohashi, TOWARON TRADING on Feb. 18 for "Cable bead, tire using cable bead, cable bead manufacturing method, and cable bead manufacturing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,034, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Shoichi Ohashi (Japan) and TOWARON TRADING Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Cable bead, tire using cable bead, cable bead manufacturing method, and cable bead manufacturing device" was invented by Shoichi Ohashi (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable bead comprising an annular core and a side wire spirally wrapped up around the annular core, wherein the annular core is made up of a round steel wire made to circle once or made, without being stranded, to circle 2 to 10 times side by side, and wherein the side wire is a round steel wire consecutive from the annular core. This provides a high-st...