US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Oct. 14 for "Solid tire and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,140, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Solid tire and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Hisaki Kato (Aichi, Japan), Yoichi Miwa (Aichi, Japan), Satoru Asano (Aichi, Japan) and Hiroaki Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a solid tire including a tread rubber layer on a road contact surface side and a base rubber layer on a rim side, the base rubber layer has JIS-A hardness of 80 or higher, and an RFID tag is embedded in the base rubber layer. When forming an unvulcanized tire by winding a rubber sheet into multiple layers, the RFID tag is inserted between layers ...