US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Feb. 4 for "Tire wear state detection device using waveform data" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,626, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Tire wear state detection device using waveform data" was invented by Masahiro Naruse (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Heishiro Fudo (Tokyo), Eiji Shinohara (Tokyo), Shinya Ichise (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Tobari (Tokyo) and Yuki Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wear state detection device includes an element configured to generate voltage based on deformation of a tread portion during tire rotation, a voltage detection unit configured to detect the voltage generated by the element, a speed detection unit configured to detect vehicle spee...