US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Jan. 20 for "Pneumatic tire and method of manufacturing pneumatic tire" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,313, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pneumatic tire and method of manufacturing pneumatic tire" was invented by Noriyoshi Koyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt cover layer is disposed in a tire, spanning between shoulder regions, and is formed by winding one belt cover material in a helical shape around a rotation axis on an outer side of the belt layer in a radial direction, the belt cover layer includes a lap winding portion between the shoulder regions, in which parts of circumferential portions, adjacent in a width direction, of the belt cover material wound in a h...