US Patent Issued to The Yokohama Rubber on Sept. 9 for "Pneumatic tire and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,686, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to The Yokohama Rubber Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pneumatic tire includes a sound absorbing member fixed to an inner surface of a tread portion via an adhesive layer in the tire circumferential direction. A thickness of the sound absorbing member 6 is 20 mm or greater, a hardness of the sound absorbing member is from 80 N/314 cm2 to 150 N/314 cm2, a tensile strength of the sound absorbing member 6 is 90 kPa or greater, an elongation at break of the sound absorbing membe...