US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Oct. 21 for "Pneumatic tire and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,776, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pneumatic tire and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Masahiro Naruse (Hiratsuka, Japan), Takashi Hoshiba (Hiratsuka, Japan) and Kazuya Ishiguro (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a pneumatic tire and a method for manufacturing the same. At least one sensor unit including a sensor that acquires tire information is fixed to a tire inner surface via an adhesive layer, and an amount of silicon in a release agent detected by fluorescent X-ray analysis at least in a fixing region for the sensor unit is from 0.1 wt % to...