Patents by Inventor Alfons Van De Vel

Alfons Van De Vel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Wheel suspension for a wheel driven by an endless transmission
    Patent number: 5011459
    Abstract: Wheel suspension for a wheel driven by an endless transmission, characterized in that the rocking point (11), apart from the driven wheel (2), of the rocking arms (9-10) are connected by levers (13-15), (28-29). With respect to a part of the vehicle of which the driven wheel is a part, these levers ensuring that during the rocking of the levers (9-10) aforementioned rocking point (11) is always located on an axis drawn through shafts (7-11-3) of the transmission (6-5-4), in which the distance between shafts 3 and 7 is constant or virtually constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Inventor: Alfons Van De Vel