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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7204782 | Axle assembly An axle assembly including a housing, a tire supporting hub mounted for rotation with respect to the housing, a drive axle and a planetary unit for coupling the drive axle to the tire supporting hub. The planetary unit includes a sun gear, at least one planet gear a... | 04/17/2007 |
| 6935667 | Wheels for a wheeled vehicle A wheel assembly for a wheeled vehicle utilizes interchangeable wheel hubs to secure various types of tires to provide better performance and maintenance on the vehicles. The design of the hubs is such that fabrication costs are reduced as well as costs for maintain... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6033001 | Wheel for rolling stock and manufacturing method thereof A wheel for rolling stock in which when a deflection amount λ of a disk relative to a rim section is set to not less than 5 mm, a condition that a deflection amount δ of the rim section relative a boss section ࣙ40 mm is secured easily, an excellent du... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5992913 | Running wheel for traveling units which are movable on rails, especially for traveling cranes The invention is directed to a running wheel for traveling units which are movable on rails, especially for traveling cranes. The running wheel includes an outer running ring, a resilient damping hub inserted in central opening of the running ring. The hu... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5957519 | Out of gauge resistant railroad wheel A railroad wheel revolving around an XX' axle perpendicular to a median plane P, of the type that includes a rim with a rolling surface and a flange, a hub, a plate a connecting area of the plate with the rim, a connecting area of the plate with the hub a... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5899517 | Stress homogenized rail wheel having a wheel disc connecting wheel hub and wheel rim A stress-homogenized track wheel with a wheel disk (3) which connects the wheel hub (1) and wheel rim (2) and decreases in thickness from the hub (1) towards the rim (2), the disk's outer surfaces merging via three-center curves as radial generatrices tan... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5618076 | Rail wheel In the case of a rail wheel having a wheel disk made of plastic and a tire made of metal, these are connected with one another by way of a metallic intermediate ring onto which the tire is shrunk. In this case, the wheel disk has a conical cross-sectional... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5333926 | Railway wheel A steel railway wheel with reduced axial flange deflection and reduced, thermally-induced, residual-tensile stress in the wheel rim, has a clearly defined relationship among the plate angle, the maximum depth of curvature of the wheel plate segment, the l... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5039152 | Railway wheel According to the invention, the rectilinear portion of the median longitudinal axis of the configuration of the disk of the railway wheel at the side of the wheel rim conjugates with a first portion described by the expression y=-0.0074x3 +0.41... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4982990 | Rail wheel In order to attain a cost-effective manufacturing, suitable for large-scale production, in the case of a rail wheel, and, at the same time, a high degree of structural strength, whereby the wheel disk, which rigidly joins the wheel hub (4) with the wheel ... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4863207 | Disc wheel, particularly for rail vehicles A disc wheel, particularly for rail vehicles, with a composite metal/plastic structure. In order to make possible simple manufacture with at the same time adequate force transmission, a structure between the hub and the tread comprises a plastic structure... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4699417 | Disk wheel, especially railroad wheel A disk wheel, especially a railroad wheel, has a composite construction of single piece metal hub and a single piece metal rim connected to each other by a wheel disk of fiber reinforced composite material providing exclusively adhesive bonds. The wheel d... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4632445 | Cooling device for railway wheels A cooling device especially adapted to be applied to railway car wheels that are subjected to heating by the application of braking pressure to the rims. The cooling structure is suitable for mounting on existing wheels as well as on new wheels. It compri... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4471990 | Railroad car wheel A railroad car wheel is designed to have an amount of displacement of 40 mm or larger, this amount being the amount of displacement of a rim portion relative to a boss portion of the wheel which is the distance between two lines perpendicular to the axis ... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4420179 | Railway car wheel A wheel for rail vehicles with at least one disc which is connected to an axle, and with a wheel rim having a tread or surface surrounding the disc, while the rail tread in engagement with the rim tread results in contacting points of the wheel during str... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4318564 | Railway car wheel A wheel for rail vehicles with at least one disc which is connected to an axle, and with a wheel rim having a tread or surface surrounding the disc, while the rail tread in engagement with the rim tread results in contacting points of the wheel during str... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4307910 | Railway wheels and light weight axles A lightweight wheel and axle assembly that reduces unsprung weight thereby improving the ride. The assembly also diminishes hunting and reduces tendencies towards unstable dynamic conditions. The wheel and axle assembly is easily adaptable to conventional... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4145079 | Railroad car wheel A railroad car wheel having an annular hub for connection to an axle and defining an inner radial surface adapted for disposition in facing relating to the inner surface of a wheel on the opposite end of the axle and an outboard radial surface facing outw... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4010972 | Axles resiliently mounting wheels A wheel set for a bogie of a track vehicle in which wheels are mounted non-rotatably on an axle mounted in bearings of the bogie. Substantially wide rubber elastic inserts for springing each of the wheels, have an arched axial-radial cross-section. The he... | 03/08/1977 |
| 3986747 | Resiliently flanged railway wheel A rubber shock-absorbent track wheel in which annular grooves are provided on the ring of the wheel and on the rim of the wheel disc. The grooves are formed between shoulders, and a clearance space is defined between the grooves and the shoulder. Prestres... | 10/19/1976 |
| 3980333 | Resilient railway wheel A rubber-suspended railway wheel having a highly-prestressed rubber insert embedded in facing annular grooves formed in the wheel rim and in the wheel tire and wherein, in order to restrict the extent of axial movement between the wheel tire and wheel rim... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3960400 | Lightweight railway wheel A railway wheel of lightweight construction, having a disc-like wheel body and a tire which is tension-mounted on the wheel rim, and with the wheel disc including a tangential undulating or wavelike configuration of radially extending crests and troughs. ... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3934921 | Buffer for spring-supported wheels A buffer for spring-supported wheels and a method of producing the buffer are disclosed. The buffer, which is of an elastic material, can be clamped into an annular slot formed by a wheel-rim and a wheel center-disk. The contact elements which provide the... | 01/27/1976 |
