ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,717, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Pneumatic tire" was invented by Asuka Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takamitsu Chaya (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a pneumatic tire provided with a carcass layer and a belt layer, the carcass layer is formed of an organic fiber cord having an elongation at break of 20% to 30%, an elongation in a sidewall portion under a load of 2.0 cN/dtex of 5.5% to 8.0%, and a product A=DxEc of a fineness based on corrected mass D (unit: dtex/piece) and a count Ec (unit: piece/50 mm) of 1.8x105 dtex/50 mm to 3.0x105 dtex/50 mm, and the belt layer is form...