Rubber crawler

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9637187-B2
Application number	US-201314409476-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 18, 2013
Priority date	Jul 10, 2012
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

A rubber crawler includes a rubber belt trained around a drive wheel, plural rubber projections that are provided at the rubber belt at intervals along the crawler circumferential direction, that project toward the crawler circumferential inside, that are each formed in a peaked shape widening from an apex portion to a base portion as viewed from the crawler width direction, and that are input with drive force when an engagement pin provided at the drive wheel engages with a circumferential direction rubber wall face, and an embedded member that is embedded in the rubber projections and has a circumferential direction wall face arranged along the circumferential direction rubber wall face as viewed in cross-section along the crawler circumferential direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A rubber crawler, comprising:
an endless rubber body entrained around a drive wheel;
a plurality of rubber projections that are provided at the rubber body at intervals along a circumferential direction of the rubber body, that project toward an inner circumferential side of the rubber body, that are each formed in a peaked shape widening from an apex portion to a base portion as viewed from a width direction of the rubber body, and that are input with drive force when an engagement pin provided at the drive wheel engages with a rubber wall face of the rubber projections in the rubber body circumferential direction; and
an embedded member that is embedded in the rubber projections and has a wall face in the rubber body circumferential direction arranged along the rubber wall face as viewed in cross-section along the rubber body circumferential direction, wherein
the embedded member has a triangular shape comprising three sides as viewed in cross-section along the rubber body circumferential direction;
a height of a center of the embedded member is within a range from 15.2% to 60.1% of a height of the rubber projections;
a length from the center of the embedded member to an apex point of a corner portion of the embedded member along the rubber body circumferential direction is within a range from 30.3% to 39% of a height of the rubber projections;
the embedded member is disposed at an inner circumferential side of an inner face of the rubber body;
the embedded member is a solid, rigid body; and
the thickness of the rubber projections between the inner face of the rubber body and a face of the embedded member facing the inner face of the rubber body is greater than the thickness of the rubber projections between the apex portion of the rubber projections and the corner portion of the embedded member adjacent to the apex portion.

2. The rubber crawler of claim 1 , wherein the wall face of the embedded member in the rubber body circumferential direction is an inclined flat face that inclines with respect to a thickness direction of the rubber body.

3. The rubber crawler of claim 1 , wherein the wall face of the embedded member in the rubber body circumferential direction is an inclined flat face that inclines with respect to a thickness direction of the rubber body.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Okada Kaoru

Classifications

• B62D55/244 Primary

  Moulded in one piece, with either smooth surfaces or surfaces having projections, e.g. incorporating reinforcing elements · CPC title