Straight, Radial Or Tangential Patents (Class 152/75)
  • Patent number: 11969663
    Abstract: A toy includes a vehicle body having a front portion and a rear portion. A pair of rear wheels is coupled with the rear portion and located on the vehicle so as to at least partially support the rear portion. A first electric motor is drivingly coupled with the at least one rear wheel. There is a pair of front wheels coupled with the front portion and located on the vehicle so as to at least partially support the front portion. The wheels have two sets of 3-dimensional spokes act as a level of shock absorbent freedom of rotation and a freedom of translation thereby to absorb kinetic energy from an impact force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: SILVERLIT LIMITED
    Inventor: Kwok Leung Wong
  • Patent number: 10576786
    Abstract: Provided is a non-pneumatic tire in which a plurality of curved sections (21d) to (21 f) and (22d) to (22f) curved inward in a tire circumferential direction are formed at elastic connecting plates (21) and (22) in an extension direction in which the elastic connecting plates (21) and (22) extend when seen in a tire side view such that curved directions are alternately opposite to each other in the extension direction, outer curved sections (21e) and (22e), inner curved sections (21d) and (22d), and extension sections (21i) (22i) extending throughout both of the curved sections and in which inflection sections (21g) and (22g) formed between both of the curved sections are disposed, are formed at the elastic connecting plates (21) and (22), and the extension sections (21i) and (22i) extend along reference lines having radii of curvature larger than that of the outer curved sections (21e) and (22e) and the inner curved sections (21d) and (22d) when seen in the tire side view and extend from first end portions (
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Patent number: 10118444
    Abstract: In a non-pneumatic tire, central portions in an extension direction of first elastic connecting plates (21) and central portions in an extension direction of second elastic connecting plates (22) are spaced from each other in a tire width direction (H) by a distance of 0.25 to 0.9 times an outer tube width (W1) serving as a size in the tire width direction (H) of an outer tubular body (13), edges of a first side in the tire width direction (H) of first end portions (21a) of the first elastic connecting plates (21) are disposed at the same positions in the tire width direction (H) as edges of the first side in the tire width direction (H) of the outer tubular body (13) or disposed inside in the tire width direction (H) of the edge of the first side in the tire width direction (H) of the outer tubular body (13) within a distance of 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiko Abe
  • Patent number: 9623702
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire includes an attachment body (11) attached to an axle, a ring member (14) including an inner rim (12) fitted onto the attachment body (11) and an outer rim (13) configured to surround the inner rim (12) from the outside in a tire radial direction, and a plurality of connecting members (15) disposed between the inner rim (12) and the outer rim (13) in a tire circumferential direction and configured to connect the rims (12) and (13) to each other, wherein at least a portion of the ring member (14) and the plurality of connecting members (15) are integrally formed of a synthetic resin material having a bending modulus of elasticity obtained through a 3-point bending test pursuant to ISO 178 of more than 300 MPa and a deflection temperature under a load at 0.455 MPa obtained pursuant to ASTM D648 of 62° C. or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fudemoto, Ryuji Izumoto, Hidefumi Kotsubo
  • Patent number: 9393832
    Abstract: A wheel of the bicycle wheel type includes a rim (200), a hub (10) with an axis (100) corresponding to the axis of the wheel, the hub including a left flange (11) and a right flange (12). The wheel includes an arrangement of rim-hub-rim connecting elements on at least one flange of the hub, which includes at least two sets of at least two rim-hub-rim connecting elements ((51-52; 53-54); (55-56; 57-58)), in the form of opposing spokes or rods, and in which the elements of each set are in planes situated on either side of the axis of the wheel and parallel to the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: MDPW
    Inventor: Michel Debien
  • Publication number: 20140251518
    Abstract: A non-pneumatic tire is provided with: a mounting body (11) that is mounted on a vehicle axle; a ring component (14) that is provided with an inner cylindrical body (12) that is fitted onto the outside of the mounting body (11), and an outer cylindrical body (13) that encircles the inner cylindrical body (12) from the outside in the radial direction of the tire; and a plurality of linking components (15) that are lined up along the circumferential direction of the tire between the inner cylindrical body (12) and the outer cylindrical body (13), and that link together these two cylindrical bodies (12, 13) such that they can be elastically displaced relative to each other, wherein the ring component (14) and the plurality of linking components (15) are formed integrally as a single unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiko Abe, Masashi Nishida
  • Patent number: 5253849
    Abstract: A wheel suspending device for a vehicle has a plurality of leaf springs disposed inside of a rim of the wheel. Each of the leaf springs is a chord member, two extremities of which are supported by the rim member, and a central portion of which is supported by an axle. The axle is inserted in a sleeve, which is fixed to the axle by a nut screwed on an end portion of the axle. A protrusion formed at a center of an inner surface of a cap linked with the nut is inserted in a hole formed in an end surface of the axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Inventor: Yoshihide Kamada
  • Patent number: 4240483
    Abstract: A wheel for lessening rolling resistance and other forces that retard the rolling of the wheel consisting of a circular wheel rim, a hub member positioned concentrically within the wheel rim and a spoke arrangement connecting the wheel rim with the hub member for storing and releasing externally applied energy to provide propulsive torque to the wheel. The spoke arrangement is formed from a single strand of wire that is wound around the hub and is extended to the rim to form spoke loop portions. As the wheel is rolled over a supporting surface, each spoke loop portion is flexed as the portion of the wheel adjacent thereto engages the roadway. As that portion of the wheel approaches a point where it breaks contact with the roadway the spoke portion closest thereto unflexes imparting a torque on the wheel in the direction in which it is being rolled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1980
    Inventor: Bran F. Gregoric