US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES on Aug. 19 for "Tire processing apparatus, tire repairing apparatus, repair sheet, tire repairing method, and tire manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,012, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Tire processing apparatus, tire repairing apparatus, repair sheet, tire repairing method, and tire manufacturing method" was invented by Saki Okudaira (Hyogo, Japan), Takayuki Nagase (Hyogo, Japan), Masayuki Sakamoto (Hyogo, Japan), Yuichi Takai (Hyogo, Japan) and Kotaro Hirose (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tire repairing apparatus includes: a tire support portion rotatably supporting a pneumatic tire; and an application mechanism configured to apply an additive that has a softening effect, to a tread portion of the pneumatic tir...