Deep Channel Rim Patents (Class 152/381.3)
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Patent number: 11535053Abstract: This non-pneumatic tire is provided with a tread ring, a wheel which is arranged radially inside of the tread ring, and spokes which are interposed between the tread ring and the wheel. Further, the wheel has a disc part to which the vehicle shaft is linked, and a rim part which is connected on the inner peripheral side to the disc part and is joined on the outer peripheral side to the spokes. In this configuration, the average thickness (T1) of the disc part is set to be greater than the average thickness (T2) of the rim part. In other words, the relation T1>T2 holds.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Mikio Kashiwai, Nobuo Kambara, Atsushi Hirano
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Patent number: 11298973Abstract: This disclosure relates to a wheel component (1, 20) for a wheel of a vehicle, having a hub (2), which can be connected in a rotationally secure manner to a hub flange of the vehicle and which at least partially comprises a metal material, a rim (4, 21) for receiving a tire of the wheel, and spokes (7) which connect the hub (2) to the rim (4, 21). The wheel component includes at least one spoke (7) including a spoke portion (8, 24), which comprises an injection-molded thermoplastic material, and further including a spoke reinforcement element (9, 25) at least partially embedded into the spoke portion. The spoke reinforcement element at least partially comprises a fiber-reinforced plastic material.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Baranowski, Maik Broda, Markus Franzen, Pascal Rebmann
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Patent number: 10773547Abstract: A vehicle wheel rim having at least an inboard tire bead seat retaining flange, an inboard tire bead seat, a well and an outboard tire bead seat. A reinforcing tape applied to at least a portion of one of an inner surface and/or an outer surface of the inboard tire bead seat retaining flange, the inboard tire bead seat, the well and the outboard tire bead seat.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Maxion Wheels U.S.A. LLCInventor: Joseph W. Wolf
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Patent number: 10647152Abstract: A bicycle wheel rim includes a rim having a hollow inner part and an outer part which is integrally formed with the inner part. An opening is defined in radial direction of the outer part. A connection unit is formed in the outer part and includes two seats located at an inner bottom of the opening, and two sidewalls extending from the two seats. Two engaging portions are respectively formed on the two seats and located apart from each other. Each sidewall has an outside, an inside and a top face which is connected between the outside and the inside. The inside is a flat inside without any lip or flange. The sidewalls have better strength and protect the sidewalls of the tire from being deformed.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Cheng Shin Rubber Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tsai Jen Lo
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Patent number: 10500895Abstract: A wheel includes a rim and a wheel center with several spokes with at least one butt strap. The at least one butt strap protrudes from a radially outer end of the spokes. The rim includes at least one opening arranged corresponding to the at least one butt strap. The at least one butt strap extends across the related opening in the rim and is attached to the outside of the rim.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: MUBEA CARBO TECH GMBHInventors: Christoph Renner, Karl Wagner, Georg Ruzicka
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Patent number: 10052911Abstract: A bicycle rim has rim a pair of rim flanges that defines a tire channel. A rim strip extends across the tire channel. The rim strip includes a pair of flange bumpers configured to cover the rim flanges. The flange bumpers each define a flange channel in which one of the rim flanges is received. A pair of safety humps define corresponding tire seating sections where a tire is seated when inflated. The rim strip further includes a drop seal that seals with the beads of the tire to facilitate seating of the tire during inflation.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: ENVE Composites, LLCInventor: Brett Satterthwaite
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Patent number: 9962991Abstract: A force-distributing apparatus for a bicycle wheel spoke includes a force-distributing body having a free-end first surface and a second surface disposed at an opposite side of the first surface. The force-distributing body has a spoke-receiving opening that extends through the first surface, wherein the spoke-receiving opening is formed eccentrically in the force-distributing body.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Shimano, Inc.Inventors: Kazuki Koshiyama, Hiroshi Fujita
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Patent number: 9761150Abstract: A hairdressing training headform has features simulating a face and neck of a human. A flexible scalp with hair has a peripheral lip. A vertex is configured to simulate an upper portion of a human skull and has a periphery with which the peripheral lip of the scalp engages when the flexible scalp is placed over the vertex. A releasable locking means remote from the vertex periphery biases the vertex toward the headform such that the peripheral lip of the scalp is sandwiched between the vertex periphery and the headform.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Pivot Point International, Inc.Inventor: Kam Chiu Pang
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Patent number: 9579933Abstract: A tire intended to be mounted on a drop-center rim with a flange height G and a radius of curvature R1 has first and second beads each having an annular reinforcing structure having a radially innermost point, the radial distance between the radially innermost point and the mounting rim being A, and a carcass reinforcement anchored in the two beads by being turned back around the annular reinforcing structure forming, within each bead, a main strand and a turned-back strand, in which the thicknesses EB1 of the first bead and EB2 of the second bead are the distance separating (i) the point on the main strand that is at a distance R from the radially innermost point, where R=G+(R1)/2?A, and (ii) the point on the exterior surface of the bead that is at the distance R from the radially innermost point, and in which |EB1?EB2|?1 mm.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2011Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.Inventors: Pascal Pirotte, Christophe Egerszegi
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Patent number: 9421833Abstract: A reinforced valve stem has two perpendicular tubes, a first tube generally inwardly of a rim and a second tube outwardly and perpendicular to a rim of a wheel. The first tube receives a valve stem and has a threaded inlet for connection to an air source. The second tube threadily connects to the first tube opposite the valve and has an internal smooth passage for providing air into a tire mounted upon a rim. The second tube has a threaded outlet that receives an umbrella nut. The second tube also has an exterior wedge and a truncated conical heel spaced slight above the wedge. The conical heel merges into a shoulder that rotates through the merge of the two tubes to a neck just before the inlet.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2013Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Inventor: Stephen C. Nemish
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Patent number: 7410222Abstract: A tire-wheel assembly having a wheel with a rim and a pneumatic tire mounted on the rim, the pneumatic tire having a cavity inside for charging air. The pneumatic tire has a cavity's resonant frequency Fc arising from the cavity, and the wheel has a plurality of natural frequencies. The difference between the cavity's resonant frequency Fc of the pneumatic tire and the natural frequency Fw of the wheel closest to the cavity's resonant frequency is 10 Hz or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2004Date of Patent: August 12, 2008Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshiyuki Ikeda, Katsuyoshi Sekine
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Patent number: 6729373Abstract: A tire noise reducing system comprises a wheel rim, a pneumatic tire to be mounted on the wheel rim and a noise damper to be disposed in an annular tire cavity enclosed by the wheel rim and the pneumatic tire mounted thereon, wherein the noise damper is made of a multi-cellular material whose volume S2 is in a range of not less than 0.4% of the volume S1 of said annular tire cavity. Preferably, the specific gravity of the damper is set in a range of from 0.005 to 0.06.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2001Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Yukawa, Tokuzo Nakajima, Masami Nishikawa, Chieko Aoki, Hideaki Sugihara
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Publication number: 20030136490Abstract: The present invention provides a compound, system, and method for retrofitting and converting standard bicycle rims and tires having tubes to be tubeless. Standard tube tires are retrofitted by installing either rim tape or a rim strip with integral valve stem around the inner channel of the rim, mounting the first bead of the tire, injecting a liquid sealing compound into the tire cavity, finishing mounting the tire, inflating, and installing the tire on a bicycle. The sealing compound may additionally contain propylene glycol or an aggregate material to encourage the sealing of the tires as punctures occur when the tire system is placed into use.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Stanley Koziatek
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Patent number: 6474385Abstract: A welded vehicle wheel having a sectional rim which is connected to a nave or wheel disk in the area of the drop center by means of a weld seam, and which has standardized sections, in particular rim flange and bead seat area in terms of their axial and/or radial extent, transition radii and angles, and nonstandardized sections, in particular drop center area.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2000Date of Patent: November 5, 2002Assignee: Michelin Kronprinz Werke GmbHInventors: Meinhard Bönning, Ralf Duning, Jorn Hansen, Dieter Schichall
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Patent number: 6318428Abstract: A wheel includes a rim having two sidewalls and a groove is defined between the two sidewalls. A plurality of apertures and a valve receiving aperture are respectively defined through the rim. A seal member is located in the groove and has a hole defined therethrough. The hole is located in alignment with the valve receiving aperture. Two sides of the seal member are located on tops of the two sidewalls of the rim so that when a tire is engaged with the groove, the two sides of the seal member on the tops of the two sidewalls are respectively compressed by the tire.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2000Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Inventor: Tsai Jen Lo