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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7304254 | Shock absorbent roller thumb wheel A shock absorbing roller thumb wheel is disclosed. The shock absorbing thumb wheel includes a central hub that can be secured to an electro-mechanical switch, a rim encircling the central hub, and force dispersion spokes extending from the central hub and connected ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7096902 | Vacuum cleaner A vacuum cleaner includes a housing and at least one running roller operatively connected to the housing. The roller has a hub, a running ring, a wall connecting the running ring and the hub. The wall has two side surfaces and a curved cross-section between the runn... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7032634 | Non-pneumatic resilient tire A non-pneumatic resilient tire which derives its capacity to bear a load from laminated elements capable of supporting bending moments. The laminated elements include a stack of resilient sheets superposed and separated by a layer of rubber adhering to the latter, f... | 04/25/2006 |
| 5743316 | Dynamic steerable wheel spring A dynamic steerable spring for axially mounting for supporting a compressive load as it would experience as a vehicle wheel, the load from such vehicle being distributed being evenly transferred to a spring hub, as a replacement for a conventional pneumat... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5388623 | Elastic wheels and a pair of skis provided with the elastic wheels A pair of roller skis 300 each constituted by attaching elastic wheels 302 to a boot-placing plate 301 in the front thereof and at the back thereof. The elastic wheels 302 each comprises a wheel supporting means having a circular rim part on the outer per... | 02/14/1995 |
| 4867217 | Nonpneumatic elastic tire The elastic tire (1) is composed of a plurality of elastic elements (3) ped between the nondeformable anchoring zone (2) and the tread (4). Each elastic element (3) comprises two connecting elements (34) and (35) the ends of which form a quadrilateral an... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4784201 | Non-pneumatic tire with vibration reducing features A non-pneumatic tire with an annular body of resilient elastomeric material and an outer cylindrical member supported by circumferentially spaced-apart ribs, is provided with four vibration-reducing features. First, the tire has an outer tread surface wit... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4739810 | Convoluted cone wheel A non-pneumatic convoluted cone wheel having a hub section and a resilient section that has a ground-engaging rim at its peripheral outer edge portion to which a tire tread can be provided for the ground engaging rim including an internal element to vary ... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4705087 | Convoluted cone wheel A non-pneumatic convoluted cone wheel having a hub section and a resilient section that has a ground-engaging rim at its peripheral outer edge portion to which a tire tread can be provided for the ground engaging rim including an internal element to vary ... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4553577 | Wheel structure with resilient spokes A wheel structure having a rim and a hub interconnected by spokes with a longer portion and a shorter portion meeting at an angle or direction change region at locations all of which lie on a notional circle closer to the hub than to the rim. Preferably, ... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4211268 | Wheel A wheel has a plurality of variable length spokes extending radially from the hub to the rim and supporting the rim coaxially around the hub. Spoke length varying devices vary the lengths of the spokes.... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4006765 | Wheel having resilient spoke means A wheel wherein the periphery comprises overlapping resilient members so that viewed from the side such members form a continuous circle about the wheel's axle; the spokes connecting such members with the axle extending within the surface of an imaginary ... | 02/08/1977 |
