Balls Patents (Class 152/317)
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Patent number: 10029155Abstract: An inflatable sports ball includes an outer cover defining an interior space and having a valve hole communicating with the interior space, an inner bladder disposed in the interior space and including two bladder halves fixed to each other, and an inflation unit disposed on the inner bladder and aligned with the valve hole. Each bladder half has an inner wall surface defining an inflatable space, and a peripheral edge surface connected to the peripheral edge surface of the other bladder half. The rib plates intersect with each other to divide the inflatable space into a plurality of inflatable regions.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignees: Dongguan Broaden Sports Goods Ltd.Inventor: Chien-Chuan Lo
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Patent number: 9724971Abstract: A balancer for a wheel and tire assembly includes one or more tubes 101 containing a movable mass 104. The tube or tubes is/are mounted to a resiliently deformable support 102 with an outer dimension that substantially matches an inner dimension of the tire. the support being arranged to position and support the or each tube within the tire. The/or each tube may be annular. The support may be formed from a plastics mesh 102.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: BENTLEY MOTORS LIMITEDInventor: Andrew James McKinlay
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Patent number: 8297326Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite ball-bouncing tire, comprising a subtire and an inner tube inside it, wherein the subtire includes a space between a ring-shaped base and its side walls, and the space includes a plurality of rails and fastening grooves that are arranged at intervals on its inner walls. A slope part that converges against the rolling-forward direction is established atop on both sides of the plurality of the rails, and at the bottom of the fastening grooves, there is a plurality of fixing grooves. One or more resilient balls are established in each rail and the inner tube includes a plurality of fixing parts on top of outer walls of a base component. When the subtire and inner tube rolls, the resilient balls will be pushed into the rails along the slope part and be pressed to bounce, thus producing supplementary force to drive the tire to move forward.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Inventor: Chin-Jung Chiu
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Patent number: 6896020Abstract: A tire assembly includes a safety rim, defining recesses on its inner surface, a tire including left and right edges, which are received in said recesses, and a plurality of inflated balls lying between the tire and the rim.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2001Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: TBDC, LLCInventor: Wade Summers
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Publication number: 20040140042Abstract: There is provided a tire-rim assembly capable of stably running over a distance required even in the dropping of the tire internal pressure after the injuring of the tire without sacrificing rolling resistance and ride comfort in the usual running before the injuring of the tire, wherein a great number of substantially sphere-shaped particles each consisting of a continuous phase of a resin and a closed cell(s) and having a mean bulk specific gravity of not more than 0.1 are disposed in an interior defined by assembling a hollow doughnut-shaped tire onto an approved rim, and a pressure at 25° C. in the interior of the tire is not less than 150 kPa as an absolute pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2002Publication date: July 22, 2004Inventors: Hiroyuki Teratani, Koji Otani, Toshiyuki Ishikuro
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Publication number: 20030019553Abstract: This invention comprises an inner tube, a mesh sack, and a plurality of air-filled elastic balls. The mesh sack, preferably made of rubber, is randomly satiated with the elastic balls, and is placed abutting the tread portion (or radially outward portion) of a conventional pneumatic tire. The inner tube is placed abutting the interior portion (or radially inward portion) of the tire, so that the elastic balls are interposed between the inner tube and the radially outward portion of the interior of the tire. Inflation of the inner tube to a specified pneumatic pressure causes the elastic balls to compress against the radially outward interior portion of the tire and each other. The random placement of the elastic balls creates multiple, three-dimensionally independent layers of “air-pockets.” These air-pockets will minimize the effects of punctures from the tread-portion of the tire as well as the sidewall portions of the tire.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2002Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Song Moon Yun, Song K. Choi, Sokam D. Kim
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Patent number: 6223795Abstract: A vehicle inner tube, which includes an inflatable tube formed of a plurality of air balls, the inflatable tube having an air chamber defined on the inside, two sets of curved grooves spirally arranged at two opposite side walls thereof around an air chamber, and a plurality of insertion slots spirally arranged around the curved grooves through the two opposite side walls, and a plurality of breaker members and side bumper members respectively mounted in the insertion slots and curved grooves at the inflatable tube, the breaker members and side bumper members each including a flexible base pad formed of a big number of air balls, and a breaker adhered to the base pad at one side.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1999Date of Patent: May 1, 2001Inventor: Shut-Chen Hsu
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Patent number: 6209600Abstract: An inner tube for a vehicle tire, which includes a base having air chambers in two opposite side walls thereof and zigzag insertion slots around the periphery of each of the side walls, a multi-cell rubber tube mounted on the base between its side walls and defining a plurality of zigzag insertion slots arranged one over another around a center opening thereof and an annular insertion slot surrounding the zigzag insertion slots for mounting patching glue, and a plurality of breaker assembles respectively mounted in the zigzag insertion slots in the base and the multi-cell rubber tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 1999Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Inventor: Shut Chen Hsu
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Patent number: 6050312Abstract: An inner tube for a vehicle tire, including a base, the base having two outer walls, two inner walls, an annular air chamber connected between the inner walls, and a plurality of rubber coated breakers retained between the inner walls and the outer walls and arranged in a zigzag manner around the axial central axis of the base, and a multi-cell tube mounted around the annular master air chamber between the inner walls of the base, the multi-cell tube having arched cells of different sizes arranged around its center, a plurality of foamed rubber blocks and a plurality of glued breakers alternatively plugged into the arched cells, and a layer of patching agent covered over the arched cells to seal the foamed rubber blocks and the glued breakers in the arched cells.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1998Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Inventor: Shut Chen Hsu
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Patent number: 6047753Abstract: A vehicle inner tube includes an inflatable tube, a protective tube mounted around the inflatable tube for protection, the protective tube formed of a plurality of air balls and having recessed breaker seats equiangularly spaced around its inner diameter, a plurality of breaker units respectively mounted on the inner diameter of the protective tube and partially overlapped on one another and adhered to recessed breaker seats in the protective tube, the breaker units each including a flexible breaker holder having two reversely horizontally extended side insertion slots and a downwardly obliquely extended bottom insertion slot, two side breakers respectively directly inserted into the horizontal insertion slots and partially projecting out of the breaker holder at two opposite sides, and a bottom breaker inserted into the bottom insertion slot and secured thereto by glue means, an endless cover layer covered on the protective tube and adhered thereto by glue means, the endless cover layer comprising a pluralitType: GrantFiled: November 17, 1998Date of Patent: April 11, 2000Inventor: Shut Chen Hsu
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Patent number: 5894874Abstract: A tube or tubeless tire, which can be punctured and still allow a vehicle to continue running, includes a plurality of spherical members formed of foamed rubber or foamed urethane. The spherical members are contained inside an air chamber of the tire and occupy 50% to 80% of the volume of the air chamber of an inflated tire.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 1997Date of Patent: April 20, 1999Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Toshio Yamagiwa, Hirohisa Takahashi, Kengo Nakayama, Katsutoshi Yamazaki
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Patent number: 5031679Abstract: This invention is a composite cellular tire insert for insertion into the interior of pneumatic type tires to eliminate flats and blow-outs. The composite cellular tire insert is comprised of a multiplicity of preconstructed, hollow, pressurized, elastomeric, one-piece, seamless cells bonded together into a configuration whereby substantially all of the exterior cell wall surface of all cells in the tire insert, is engaged with portions of exterior cell wall surfaces of surrounding cells thereby providing a cellular tire insert that has substantially no void space or material mass between the cells.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1989Date of Patent: July 16, 1991Inventor: Douglas J. Shoner