US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on June 24 for "Specification determination method of fiber reinforced member for marine hose and method of producing marine hose" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,916, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Specification determination method of fiber reinforced member for marine hose and method of producing marine hose" was invented by Tomoki Oka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A marine hose has a twist coefficient 1900less than equal toKless than equal to2900 of fiber cords constituting a fiber reinforced member with three or four twisted filaments made of polyester, an interrelationship R between a predetermined elongation ratio E2 of a plurality of types of the fiber cords having different specifications and a hose elongation rati...