Metallic Springs Patents (Class 152/247)
  • Patent number: 10710411
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes an inner ring having an axis of rotation, a deformable outer ring, and a web extending between the inner ring and the deformable outer ring. The tire further includes a pair of sidewalls disposed at opposite ends of the non-pneumatic tire and covering the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Manesh, Mike Tercha, Brian Anderson, Karen Schlei, Brian Meliska, Louis Stark, Benjamin Knospe, Glenn Howland
  • Patent number: 9352617
    Abstract: A hollowed-out non-pneumatic tire with reinforcing ribs comprises a tire body. A row or rows of through holes are uniformly and annularly distributed in the tire body. The through holes are uniformly distributed in the tire body in 360 degrees by taking the central axis of the tire body as a center. The through holes transversely penetrate through the two sides of the tire body. The reinforcing ribs are arranged in the through holes. The hollowed-out non-pneumatic tire with the reinforcing ribs provided by the invention has the advantages that the elasticity is high, the friction area between the tire and the ground is reduced and the driving force of the bicycles, the motorcycles and the automobiles is effectively decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU NAIDONG INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO. LIMITED
    Inventor: Chunru Zhang
  • Patent number: 9016336
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes a plurality of springs. Each spring includes a first end portion, a second end portion, and an arching middle portion. Each spring is interwoven with at least one other spring thereby forming a toroidal structure extending about an entire circumference of the non-pneumatic tire. The toroidal structure is at least partially coated with an elastomer. One end portion of at least one spring is wrapped around a first bead structure adjacent a rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: James Alfred Benzing, II, Wesley Glen Sigler
  • Publication number: 20140230977
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes a plurality of springs. Each spring includes a first end portion, a second end portion, and an arching middle portion. Each spring is interwoven with at least one other spring thereby forming a toroidal structure extending about an entire circumference of the non-pneumatic tire. The toroidal structure is at least partially coated with an elastomer. One end portion of at least one spring is wrapped around a first bead structure adjacent a rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: James Alfred Benzing, II, Wesley Glen Sigler
  • Patent number: 8714217
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic wheel assembly includes a wheel, a shock absorbing member coupled to an outer periphery of the wheel and absorbing or attenuating noise and vibration due to external shock, a plurality of resilient members arranged around and coupled to an outer periphery of the shock absorbing member in a radial direction and having a plurality of resilient rings that are resiliently deformed in response to an external force, resilient links respectively coupled to the resilient rings to evenly transmit external shock to the resilient rings, rail plates to which sliders formed at both ends of the resilient links are slidably coupled, and a tire having a plurality of coupling grooves formed along an inner periphery such that the rail plates are inserted into the coupling grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Inventors: Young-Ill Chon, Soon-Ja Lee, Sun-Young Chon, Sang-Hyun Chon, Sang-Wook Chon
  • Publication number: 20130306211
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes a plurality of springs. Each spring includes a first end portion, a second end portion, and an arching middle portion. Each spring is interwoven with at least one other spring thereby forming a toroidal structure extending about an entire circumference of the non-pneumatic tire. The toroidal structure is at least partially coated with an elastomer. One end portion of at least one spring is secured to a first bead spring adjacent a rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: James Benedict Kubeck, James Christopher Kish, Wesley Glen Sigler
  • Patent number: 7743806
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire having a rim member 1, a ring member 3 disposed at an outer circumferential side of the rim member 1 and provided with a tread 2 on a circumferential face, and a plurality of link mechanisms 4 coupling the rim member with the ring member. Each of the link mechanisms 4 contains a pair of link members 7a, 7b formed of a link 5a, 5b which is connected at a first end with a side portion of the rim member 1 and which is swingable in the circumferential and meridian directions and another link 6a, 6b which is connected at a first end with a side portion of the ring member and 3 which is swingable in the circumferential and meridian directions with second ends of the links being hingedly connected one another to make the links swingable in the meridian direction. A spring member 9 imparting a stiffness against relative displacements in the radian, circumferential and width directions with respect to the rim and ring members 1, 3 is provided on the link mechanisms 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Patent number: 6672349
    Abstract: Vehicle wheel that includes a pneumatic tire mounted on a wheel rim. The pneumatic tire includes a tire tread, two side-walls, a carcass, reinforcing elements, and two tire beads with bead cores. The vehicle wheel also includes an emergency support body, mounted on the wheel rim and positioned inside the pneumatic tire. The emergency support body includes an emergency rolling surface to support the tire in case of a failure of the pneumatic tire. The emergency rolling surface includes a radially exterior surface of a ring torus with a bowl-shaped cross section, and the ring torus includes axially exterior sections having cross-sectional contours with first curvatures open to the wheel rim and an intermediate section positioned between the axially exterior sections having a contour with a second curvature open to a crest point of the pneumatic tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2004
    Assignee: Continental Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Glinz, Horst Sergel, Hans-Bernd Hellweg, Heinrich Huinink
  • Patent number: 6408912
    Abstract: A bicycle wheel assembly includes a hub disposed coaxially in a metal rim. A spoke unit interconnects the hub and the metal rim. The metal rim defines a tire-retention groove to receive a foam tire therein. The foam tire has an inner section disposed in the groove of the metal rim, and an outer section that projects outwardly from the groove. A tire reinforcing unit is embedded within the foam tire, and includes a non-stretchable strap embedded in the inner section of the foam tire and disposed around the metal rim, and a plurality of angularly spaced apart rigid strings which extend radially from the non-stretchable strap into the outer section of the foam tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Inventor: Cheng-Yu Li