Overlapping Section Patents (Class 152/411)
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Patent number: 10953692Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe systems and methods for a bead lock wheel line in scaled vehicles. The bead lock wheel line may include a wheel center section and a bead lock ring. The bead lock ring may be configured to be overlaid on the wheel center section, wherein screws may be inserted through orifices positioned within the bead lock ring and into orifices positioned on the wheel center section.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Inventor: Patrick Norton
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Patent number: 10786961Abstract: A rim for mounting a tire includes a base portion and a rim portion. The rim portion includes a rim segment, a first flange segment positioned on one side and a second flange segment positioned on an opposite side of the rim segment. The rim segment defines a circular curvature and has an original rim width measured along a rotation axis of the rim between inward facing surfaces of the first flange segment and the second flange segment. A band is positioned around a circumference of the rim segment contiguous with an inward facing surface of the first flange segment. The rim portion has an adjusted rim width, measured between a band inward facing surface and the inward facing surface of the second flange segment, which is different from the original rim width.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Bridgestone Bangag, LLCInventors: Eric M. Henriksen, Noel K. Stineman, Wade L. Terrill, Matthew S. Bartenhagen
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Patent number: 10596851Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe systems and methods for a bead lock wheel line in scaled vehicles. The bead lock wheel line may include a wheel center section and a bead lock ring. The bead lock ring may be configured to be overlaid on the wheel center section, wherein screws may be inserted through orifices positioned within the bead lock ring and into orifices positioned on the wheel center section.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Inventor: Patrick Norton
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Patent number: 10343361Abstract: A machine for retreading tires includes a rotatable hub and an expandable rim disposed around the moveable hub. The expandable rim includes a plurality of shoes, each shoe having a flange segment on either side of a rim segment of the plurality of shoes. An adapter is attached to each of the flange segments such that an expandable rim width is decreased. A method for modifying a width of an expandable rim for use in a tire retreading machine comprising is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Bridgestone Bandag, LLCInventor: Eric M. Henriksen
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Patent number: 10112438Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe systems and methods for a bead lock wheel line in scaled vehicles. The bead lock wheel line may include a wheel center section and a bead lock ring. The bead lock ring may be configured to be overlaid on the wheel center section, wherein screws may be inserted through orifices positioned within the bead lock ring and into orifices positioned on the wheel center section.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2018Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Inventor: Patrick Norton
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Patent number: 9937748Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe systems and methods for a bead lock wheel line in scaled vehicles. The bead lock wheel line may include a wheel center section and a bead lock ring. The bead lock ring may be configured to be overlaid on the wheel center section, wherein screws may be inserted through orifices positioned within the bead lock ring and into orifices positioned on the wheel center section.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Inventor: Patrick Norton
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Patent number: 9724888Abstract: A rim for mounting a tire includes a base portion and a rim portion. The rim portion includes a rim segment, a first flange segment positioned on one side and a second flange segment positioned on an opposite side of the rim segment. The rim segment defines a circular curvature and has an original rim width measured along a rotation axis of the rim between inward facing surfaces of the first flange segment and the second flange segment. A band is positioned around a circumference of the rim segment contiguous with an inward facing surface of the first flange segment. The rim portion has an adjusted rim width, measured between a band inward facing surface and the inward facing surface of the second flange segment, which is different from the original rim width.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Bridgestone Bandag, LLCInventors: Eric M. Henriksen, Noel K. Stineman, Wade L. Terrill, Matthew S. Bartenhagen
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Patent number: 9623617Abstract: A machine for retreading tires includes a rotatable hub and an expandable rim disposed around the moveable hub. The expandable rim includes a plurality of shoes, each shoe having a flange segment on either side of a rim segment of the plurality of shoes. An adapter is attached to each of the flange segments such that an expandable rim width is decreased. A method for modifying a width of an expandable rim for use in a tire retreading machine comprising is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Bridgestone Bandag, LLCInventor: Eric M. Henriksen
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Patent number: 4856849Abstract: A disk wheel for a motor vehicle includes an inner rim portion and a disk portion which are formed integrally with each other. An outer rim portion which is independent of the inner rim portion and disk portion is rigidly fitted on the outer circumferential surface of the disk portion. The inner and outer rim portions are different in thickness from each other, so that the inner rim portion is provided with greater rigidity without increasing the overall weight of the disk wheel.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 1987Date of Patent: August 15, 1989Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiko Fujii, Shiro Sato, Yasuhiro Miyanaga, Heizo Asami, Susumu Takekoshi, Yasuo Kasai
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Patent number: 4483729Abstract: A wheel rim is formed by separately forming rim halves of fiber sheets arrayed in different directions so that the fibers are isotropic around the circumference of the rim, and by welding the halves together with a ring formed of carbon fibers.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1982Date of Patent: November 20, 1984Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Sumitomo Electric Industries, LtdInventors: Masaru Fujisaki, Tetsuo Tsuchida, Yoichi Sasajima, Hirohisa Ito, Masahiro Morita
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Patent number: 4481997Abstract: A safety tire and wheel assembly which includes an improved multiple-piece wheel rim assembly for preventing inflation and/or venting to atmosphere when the rim assembly components are improperly assembled, and an improved safety insert mounted on the wheel rim base for supporting the tire tread during operation following loss of inflation pressure. The wheel rim assembly includes telescoping rim segments and an O-ring normally captured in compression between opposing portions of the rim segments for sealing the tire cavity. Air bleed passages are formed in one rim segment adjacent the sealing ring externally of the cavity to vent the tire cavity to atmosphere when sealing compressive stresses are absent from the O-ring as in the event of improper assembly or disassembly. The safety insert includes a ledge normally disposed within the tire cavity and having a radially facing surface roughened by a circumferential series of axially extending splines.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1982Date of Patent: November 13, 1984Assignee: Motor Wheel CorporationInventor: Don S. Strader
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Patent number: 4424842Abstract: A vehicle wheel comprises two circular wheel halves, each having a portion of a rim, approximately one-half of the circumference of a safety tread and means for attaching the tread portion to the rim portion. The parts of the tread interface with each other on a bias so they can be brought together and separated by relative movement having a component transverse to the central axis of the wheel.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1982Date of Patent: January 10, 1984Inventor: Francois P. Trebaol
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Patent number: 4372365Abstract: A safety wheel designed so that when air sealed within a tire is lost, the vehicle may be supported by a flat protector device in place of air pressure within the tire. The safety wheel comprises a split rim, a tubeless tire and a flat protector device which comprises a flat protector seat portion annularly fixed along the outer peripheral surface of the split rim, and a flat protector body formed of at least one pipe annularly fixed along the outer peripheral surface of the flat protector seat portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 1980Date of Patent: February 8, 1983Assignees: Ohtsu Tire and Rubber Co. Ltd., Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Isao Osada, Shoichi Sano
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Patent number: 4363347Abstract: A motor vehicle wheel comprising two mating, annular, permanently connected parts formed without cutting and composed of different, but congenerically similar, materials. The wheel is composed of an inner wheel part, which comprises the inner and greater part of the rim bed together with the wheel disc, and an outer wheel part which forms the remaining and smaller part of the rim bed. The two parts are connected together at their respective rim bed portions to provide a complete rim bed. The two wheel parts are provided with mating, generally annular, contiguous connection surfaces which may be of cylindrical, conical and/or serrated configuration and which are joined in an air-tight manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1979Date of Patent: December 14, 1982Assignee: BBS-Kraftfahrzeugtechnik GmbHInventor: Heinrich Baumgartner
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Patent number: 4234236Abstract: A two piece wheelhas an inner tire rim half with an inwardly directed annular flange and an annular groove receiving an O-ring seal, an outer tire rim half has an annular chamfer at its inner edge fitting over and compressing the O-ring seal, a wheel spider secured to the inside of the outer rim has a matching inwardly directed annular flange, an annular reinforcing brake attaching flange is adjacent the rim and spider flanges, and studs and nuts fasten the three flanges together.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 1978Date of Patent: November 18, 1980Assignee: The Centerline Steering Safety Axle CorporationInventor: Melvin R. Inbody
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Patent number: 4165777Abstract: A device for sealing joining surfaces of a split rim in a wheel. The split rim comprises an outboard rim and an inboard rim. A joining surface of the outboard rim is formed at its outer periphery with an annular recess of L-shaped section. The annular recess has a bottom surface formed at its base portion with a peripheral groove which receives therein an inner periphery of a seal ring. A joining surface of the inboard rim has at its outer peripheral portion an annular projection of a stepped-like section. The depth of the annular recess is shorter than the sum of the diameter of the seal ring and the thickness of the inner annular projection.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1978Date of Patent: August 28, 1979Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Shoichi Sano