Cylinder And Piston Patents (Class 152/332.1)
  • Patent number: 6725895
    Abstract: A wheel has a rigid rim, a soft tire arranged on the rigid rim, and a unit for generating different pressures from inside in the soft tire in contact zone of tire with road surface, at opposite sides of a vertical transverse plane of symmetry of the rim so as to cause pushing of the tire with rim of wheel along a roadway, the tire being subdivided in a plurality of separate chambers spaced from one another in a circumferential direction, the unit for generating different pressures being operative for generating different pressures in a computerized way in any chamber of the tire at any time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Inventor: Michael Tsipov