Vehicle wheel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9694626-B2
Application number	US-201214652213-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2012
Priority date	Dec 17, 2012
Publication date	Jul 4, 2017
Grant date	Jul 4, 2017

Abstract

This vehicle wheel is provided with only two sub air chamber members each as a Helmholtz resonator having an sub air chamber which communicates with a tire air chamber via a communication hole, and characterized in that the respective communication holes of the sub air chamber members are provided apart from each other in a wheel circumferential direction so as to form approximately a right angle around a wheel rotation center.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle wheel, comprising:
two Helmholtz resonators each having a sub air chamber which communicates with a tire air chamber via a communication hole,
wherein tube bodies each having the communication hole are fitted to cut-out portions of a standing wall and thereby have a function as stoppers of rotation of the Helmholtz resonators along a wheel circumferential direction, and
wherein the respective communication holes of the Helmholtz resonators are arranged to be separated from each other along the wheel circumferential direction, forming a substantially right angle with each other around a wheel rotation center.

2. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 ,
wherein the Helmholtz resonators are a first Helmholtz resonator and a second Helmholtz resonator that is disposed to be separated from the first Helmholtz resonator along the wheel circumferential direction such as to face the first Helmholtz resonator around the wheel rotation center,
wherein the communication hole of the first Helmholtz resonator is arranged at an end portion of the first Helmholtz resonator in a circumferential direction, and
wherein the communication hole of the second Helmholtz resonator is arranged at an end portion of the second Helmholtz resonator in the circumferential direction, the end portion being on a side adjacent to the communication hole of the first Helmholtz resonator.

3. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 ,
wherein the Helmholtz resonators are formed such that the first Helmholtz resonator and the second Helmholtz resonator are integrated with each other.

4. The vehicle wheel according to claim 3 ,
wherein the Helmholtz resonators are formed by a sub air chamber member disposed in the tire air chamber,
wherein the inside of the sub air chamber member is partitioned in two chambers to form a first sub air chamber and a second sub air chamber,
wherein the sub air chamber member includes the communication hole via which the first sub air chamber communicates with the tire air chamber and the communication hole via which the second sub air chamber communicates with the tire air chamber,
wherein the first sub air chamber and the communication hole of the first sub air chamber form the first Helmholtz resonator, and
wherein the second sub air chamber and the communication hole of the second sub air chamber form the second Helmholtz resonator.

5. The vehicle wheel according to claim 4 ,
wherein the Helmholtz resonators are formed by resin such as to be longitudinal in the wheel circumferential direction in a state that the Helmholtz resonators are disposed in the tire air chamber, and
wherein the inside of the sub air chamber member is partitioned such that the first sub air chamber and the second sub air chamber are formed next to each other in a wheel width direction.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kamiyama Youichi

Classifications

• B60B21/028

  the shape of hump · CPC title

• B60B21/12 Primary

  Appurtenances, e.g. lining bands · CPC title

• B60B2900/131

  Vibrations · CPC title

• B60B2900/133

  Noise · CPC title

• G10K11/172

  using resonance effects · CPC title