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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2005
Applicant:
Yoshio Ueno, Kishiwada, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshio Ueno, Kishiwada, JP;
Assignee:
The Ohtsu Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 55/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An elastic crawler having a crawler body formed of a rubber elastic material into an endless belt so that rollers rotatively move on right and left side regions on an inner surface of the crawler body is provided with a reinforcement provided extending outwardly in a thickness direction of the crawler body in an area of the crawler body extending at least partially under said right and left ends of each of the rollers. The prevents the elastically bendable side regions from being cracked when either of the side regions of the elastic crawler is bent about an axis that extends in a circumferential direction of the crawler.