US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on June 10 for "Method and system for inspecting quality of tire member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,202, issued on June 10, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for inspecting quality of tire member" was invented by Mitsuo Tsuji (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichiro Hisada (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Onodera (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Iwai (Shiga, Japan), Kousuke Shimada (Tokyo), Takeshi Yokoji (Tokyo) and Kenta Ishii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To determine the magnitude of variation in predetermined quality in a longitudinal direction of an elongated tire member formed by bonding a plurality of types of constituent members, X-rays are applied to a predetermined length range of a tire member, whi...