patentstorm.us 258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif PatentStorm -> Applications -> Land vehicles: wheels and axles http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-301.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 301 Land vehicles: wheels and axles. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:02:55 patents@patentstorm.us en <![CDATA[NON-PNEUMATIC SURVIVABLE TIRE MOUNTING SYSTEM FOR CONVENTIONAL WHEELS]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038207/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038207
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  Rogers, Eldon C.; Williams, Timothy L.
    • A non-pneumatic tire and wheel assembly incorporates a tire tread and a conventional vehicle wheel with an elastomer tire body element and integral wall elements extending radially inward from the tire body element for sealing engagement with the wheel. The tire body element includes multiple concentric layers with alternating spokes. A bonded multilayer cover may be employed which is received within a recess in an outer surface of the tire body element from the tire tread. An attachment plate ...
    ]]>     20120038207     <![CDATA[NON-PNEUMATIC SURVIVABLE TIRE, COVER AND FABRICATION PROCESSES]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038206/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038206
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  Storvick, Darrell M.; Chadwick, D'Arcy R.; Perron, Daniel J.; Rogers, Eldon C.; Williams, Timothy L.; Yee, Dennis
    • A non-pneumatic tire and wheel assembly incorporates a tire tread and a conventional vehicle wheel with an elastomer tire body element molded for engagement intermediate the tread and wheel. The tire body element includes multiple concentric layers with alternating spokes. A bonded multilayer cover may be employed which is received within a recess in an outer surface of the tire body element from the tire tread. A mounting plate is engaged to the cover and attached to the ...
    ]]>     20120038206     <![CDATA[Safety skewer release apparatus and method]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032499/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032499
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Ashman, J. Leonard
    • The present invention allows a user to mount/dismount a bicycle wheel in a single motion. An outer shell contains a single cam operated by an external lever. One feature of the cam is a detent that, when the cam is rotated to the proper position and pulled back, mates with a shoulder to effectively lock the skewer shaft in place. Upon rotation of the lever, the internal cam is pulled to the locked position where the wheel will clear impediments on a bicycle frame or fork without any additional ...
    ]]>     20120032499     <![CDATA[HUB WITH STAR RATCHET]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032498/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032498
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Klieber, Jochen
    • The present invention relates to a rear wheel hub for a bicycle, a rear wheel for a bicycle, and a bicycle. In order to provide a rear wheel hub which, with a further reduction in weight, still allows reliable transmission of force, the hub has a hub body (12), an axle body (14), a first bearing device (16) between the axle body and the hub body, a freewheel body (18) for accommodating at least one sprocket, a second bearing device (20) between the axle body ...
    ]]>     20120032498     <![CDATA[Foldable Wheel]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032497/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032497
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventors:  SHEU, Dongliang Daniel; LEE, Shang-Ji
    • The present invention provides a foldable wheel which can greatly reduce its size and be carried conveniently, comprising: an extendable hub including a first end and a second end, wherein the distance between the first end and the second end may be changed by adjusting the extendable hub; a plurality of extendable spokes each including a first extendable portion and a second extendable portion, wherein the first extendable portion connects with the first end of the extendable hub and the ...
    ]]>     20120032497     <![CDATA[WHEEL, AND FRICTION DRIVE DEVICE AND OMNI-DIRECTIONAL VEHICLE USING THE SAME]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032496/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032496
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventors:  Makino, Hiroyuki; Gomi, Hiroshi; Hirano, Makoto; Takenaka, Toru; Izumi, Hideharu; Kobashi, Shinichiro; Kuwabara, Kazuya; Koyama, Taiji; Sasaki, Masao
    • [Task] To allow a wheel that provides a performance required for use in an omni-directional vehicle to be manufactured in an efficient manner.

    [Solution] An annular member (51) comprises a C-shaped main body (61) and a complementary member (62) defining an endless annular shape jointly with the main body (61), a joint (63) between the main body (61) and complementary member (62) includes mating surfaces that are ...
    ]]> 20120032496 <![CDATA[Axle Sleeve Manufacturing Process]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120031516/description.html

  • Application Number:  20120031516
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventors:  Yori, III, Richard B.; Lioi, Paul
    • A system and method for the manufacture of aircraft landing gear axle equipment is provided of two primary steps: hot pierce and tube solid billet stock; and flow form process. The hot pierce and tube process converts a standard solid round billet by heating it well beyond its annealing temperature. The billet is then pierced with a lance and hot rolled into a seamless tube. The tube is then precision flow formed as an incremental metal forming technique in which a tube of metal is formed over ...
    ]]>     20120031516     <![CDATA[BICYCLE RIM]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025597/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025597
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventor:  KOSHIYAMA, Kazuki
    • A bicycle rim is provided with a pair of circumferential side walls and an outer bridge connecting radial outer ends between the first and second circumferential side walls. At least one of the first and second circumferential side walls includes a first portion of a non-resin material with a first thermal conductivity and a second portion of a non-resin material with a second thermal conductivity. The second portion extends more than half in a circumferential direction along the at least one ...
    ]]>     20120025597     <![CDATA[TRACTION BELT ATTACHMENT]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025596/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025596
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventor:  Dunham, Robert
    • A traction device for lawn equipment wheels comprising: a removable belt, where said belt is placed over the circumference of the wheel; a pin, where said pin secures the belt around the wheel; and a traction surface across the surface of the belt. The traction surface may include a plurality of chain assemblies or alternatively a plurality of pointed lugs. The pointed lugs may insert through a plurality of openings along the surface of the belt and the lugs include a pointed end and a head ...
    ]]>     20120025596     <![CDATA[SYSTEM FOR WHEEL CLADDING AFFIXMENT]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025595/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025595
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventor:  Russell, Martin E.
    • A system for permanently securing wheel cladding to a wheel having a rim with a rim flange is provided. An annular affixment ring includes an outer periphery which seats within an undercut formed in the rim flange. A plurality of arcuate flanges extend from the inner face of the cladding and abut the inner periphery of the ring to maintain the outer periphery of the ring within the undercut. The ring includes axial apertures and the inner face of the cladding includes retention tabs having ...
    ]]>     20120025595     <![CDATA[POWER-DRIVEN WHEEL FOR A MILITARY VEHICLE]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025594/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025594
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventors:  SGHERRI, Roberto; FRANCESCHI, Giuliano
    • There is described a power-driven wheel for a military vehicle, having an axial-flow electric motor, and a hub connected functionally to the motor and rotating about an axis; the motor has an output member housed inside the hub; and the wheel has an epicyclic reducer interposed functionally between the hub and the output ...
    ]]>     20120025594     <![CDATA[POWER-DRIVEN WHEEL FOR A MILITARY VEHICLE]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025593/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025593
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventors:  SGHERRI, Roberto; FRANCESCHI, Giuliano
    • There is described a power-driven wheel for a military vehicle, having an axial-flow electric motor, and a hub connected functionally to the motor and rotating about an axis; the motor has an output member housed inside the hub; and the wheel has an epicyclic reducer interposed functionally between the hub and the output ...
    ]]>     20120025593     <![CDATA[ELECTRIC MACHINE - EVAPORATIVE COOLING]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120024610/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120024610
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventor:  Woolmer, Tim
    • An electric machine (10;100) comprises a rotor (14a), preferably having permanent magnets (24a,b), although other field generation means are available, and a stator (12). The stator has coils (22) wound on stator bars (16) for interaction with the magnetic field of the rotor across an air gap (26a,b) defined between them. The rotor (14) comprises a housing (54) of a chamber (70) containing refrigerant ...
    ]]>     20120024610     <![CDATA[AXLE HOUSING ASSEMBLY AND METHOD]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120019053/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120019053
  • Publication Date:  2012-01-26
  • Inventors:  Rea, Jeffrey E.; Swanson, Blair J.; Doud, Stephen C.
    • An apparatus that includes a first member, an insert, and an object. The first member made of a first metal and has a first exterior surface and a first end. A pocket is formed in the exterior surface of the first end. The insert is made of a second, different metal. The insert is connected to the pocket and has a second exterior surface that is flush with the first exterior surface. The object is formed of the second metal and is resistance welded to the insert. The second metal is steel and ...
    ]]>     20120019053     <![CDATA[WHEEL INCLUDING TREAD]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120019052/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120019052
  • Publication Date:  2012-01-26
  • Inventor:  Morris, Michael A.
    • Wheels and methods of making wheels are disclosed including an inner portion and a tread mechanically coupled to the inner portion. The tread may be mechanically coupled to the inner portion on an inside and an outside of the wheel. The inner portion may include a rim including a plurality of apertures. The inner portion may be high density polyethylene and the tread may be thermoplastic ...
    ]]>     20120019052     <![CDATA[SPOKED WHEEL FOR TUBELESS TIRES]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120019051/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120019051
  • Publication Date:  2012-01-26
  • Inventor:  Bernardelle, Giulio
    • A spoked wheel for tubeless tires, particularly for motorcycles, cars and similar vehicles includes a rim, a hub, and spokes suitable for fixing the rim to the hub. Each spoke is connected to the rim by a fastening device inserted in two opposite ears located in an inner surface of the ...
    ]]>     20120019051     <![CDATA[Face Tooth Hydraulic Piston Brake]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120019050/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120019050
  • Publication Date:  2012-01-26
  • Inventor:  Feusse, Craig
    • A braking mechanism is provided for a hydraulic motor driven wheel utilizing a two-piece design of a hub that rotates by means of a drive shaft. A hydraulic chamber is created on the hub in which a piston resides. The piston is grounded (i.e., non-rotatable relative to the motor housing) in the sealed chamber. The piston face inside of the chamber has a radial set of face teeth. These face teeth are similar to the face teeth inside of the hydraulic chamber. When the chamber is pressurized, the ...
    ]]>     20120019050     <![CDATA[WHEEL CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING A LOCKING DEVICE]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120019049/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120019049
  • Publication Date:  2012-01-26
  • Inventor:  TRIVINI, Ruggero
    • A wheel construction including a locking device, characterized in that said wheel construction comprises a box-like body of a substantially prismatic configuration and opened at least at a bottom portion thereof, in said box-like body being snap arranged a fork element cooperating with a lever element for locking a rotary movement of a ...
    ]]>     20120019049     <![CDATA[WHEEL FRAME]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120019048/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120019048
  • Publication Date:  2012-01-26
  • Inventors:  Mckinnon, Peter R.; Taylor, Gerry
    • A method of assembling a wheel rotatable about a main axis and having a plurality of peripheral rollers mounted on peripheral axles aligned tangentially about the wheel and radially spaced from the main axis, each peripheral axle joined to adjacent other peripheral axles to form a continuous ring comprising the peripheral axles, the method including the steps of: molding each peripheral axle in a die having a cylindrical cycle for forming the axle shaft of the peripheral axle without ...
    ]]>     20120019048     <![CDATA[VEHICLE WHEEL COMPONENTS, INCLUDING VEHICLE WHEELS, COMPRISING A SURFACE COATING AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH VEHICLE WHEEL COMPONENTS]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120019047/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120019047
  • Publication Date:  2012-01-26
  • Inventor:  Niedermayer, Klaus
    • Multicolor motor vehicle wheels and vehicle wheel components are increasingly desirable. The coloring has been carried out so far essentially by expensive manual labor. The present invention provides for an industrially applicable method for preparing color-coated vehicle wheel components and vehicle wheels, which is characterized in that the metal body is at first machined at least in areas to be coated, after which at least two layers of paint are applied one after another, and at least one ...
    ]]>     20120019047     <![CDATA[ELECTRIC MOTOR AND BRAKE ASSEMBLY]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120018234/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120018234
  • Publication Date:  2012-01-26
  • Inventors:  Jindra, John; Pandya, Nirav; Strothmann, Thomas; Tuckowski, Thomas; Bekoscke, Robert; Waterman, George H.
    • A motor and brake assembly includes a mounting member. A stator winding assembly, a brake assembly, a hub, and a rotor magnet assembly. The stator winding assembly is mounted to the mounting member. The brake assembly is operably connected to the mounting member. The hub is rotatably coupled to the mounting member. The rotor magnet assembly is mounted to an inside of a radially outer wall of the hub. The brake assembly is operable to move a component of the brake assembly between an engaged ...
    ]]>     20120018234     <![CDATA[OMNI TRACTION WHEEL SYSTEM AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120018232/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120018232
  • Publication Date:  2012-01-26
  • Inventor:  Uehara, Yasuo
    • The present invention is an omni traction wheel system, which adopts an integrated differential mechanism to generate longitudinal and lateral traction forces. The omni traction wheel system may include a rotary device that delivers two individually controllable rotational forces, the differential output of which may drive a plurality of peripheral wheels to rotate laterally, and the common output of which may drive a pair of longitudinal plates to rotate longitudinally. Accordingly, the omni ...
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