Wheel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9895940-B2
Application number	US-201514680494-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 7, 2015
Priority date	Jul 25, 2014
Publication date	Feb 20, 2018
Grant date	Feb 20, 2018

Abstract

The wheel includes a tire, a rim, two groups of supporting members. The tire is coupled to the rim. The groups of supporting members are oppositely positioned and received in the tire. Each group of supporting members are separately positioned from each other. The supporting members of each group are coupled to an inner surface of the tire by injection method. Central axes of the supporting members of each group are coincident or parallel. A central axis of each supporting member is coincident with or parallel to a central axis of a central axis of the tire.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wheel comprising:
a rim;
a tire mounted on the rim, having a tread and two sidewalls, and defining an internal chamber;
two groups of supporting members mounted within the internal chamber on the two sidewalls, respectively;
wherein when the tire is inflated, the support members of each of the two groups are spaced apart;
wherein when the tire is deflated, the bottom of the tire collapses such that the support members of each of the two groups at the bottom of the tire abut each other to create a collective vertical support for the tire; and
wherein one group of supporting members are concentrically and separately coupled to an inner surface of one of the sidewalls, another group of supporting members are concentrically and separately coupled to an inner surface of another one of the sidewalls; and the inner surface of each of the sidewalls defines a plurality of grooves along a circumferential direction of the sidewall and separately positioned relative to each other.

2. The wheel of claim 1 , wherein the tire further comprises two stretching portions opposite to each other, each stretching portion protrudes out from an edge of the sidewall away from the tread, each stretching portion is coupled to the rim.

3. The wheel of claim 1 , wherein the groups of supporting members and the tire are made from a same material.

4. The wheel of claim 1 , wherein the groups of supporting members and the tire are made from different materials.

5. The wheel of claim 1 , wherein the wheel is a tubeless tire.

6. A wheel comprising:
a tire;
an tread;
two sidewalls oppositely positioned at two opposite sides of the tread;
a rim coupled to the tire; and
two groups of supporting members oppositely positioned and received in the tire; wherein the supporting members of each group are separately coupled to the tire, each supporting member is substantially annular, and central axes of the supporting members of each group are coincident or parallel;
wherein an inner surface of each of the sidewalls defines a plurality of grooves along a circumferential direction of the sidewall and separately positioned from each other, a first end of the supporting member is received in the groove.

7. The wheel of claim 6 , wherein the tire further comprises two stretching portions opposite to each other, each stretching portion protrudes out from an edge of the sidewall away from the tread, each stretching portions is coupled to the rim.

8. The wheel of claim 7 , wherein the tread, the sidewalls portions, and the stretching portions define a internal chamber, cooperatively, the groups of supporting members are received in the internal chamber.

9. The wheel of claim 6 , wherein the groups of supporting members and the tire are made from a same material.

10. The wheel of claim 6 , wherein the groups of supporting members and the tire are made from different materials.

11. The wheel of claim 6 , wherein the wheel is a tubeless tire.

Assignees

• Scienbizip Consulting Shenzhen Co Ltd
• Scienbizip Consulting Shenzhen Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wu Wei Feng

Classifications

• B60C17/0018

  two or more inserts in each sidewall portion · CPC title

• B60C17/06

  resilient · CPC title

• B60C17/047 Primary

  comprising circumferential ribs · CPC title

• B60C17/0045

  comprising grooves or ribs, e.g. at the inner side of the insert · CPC title

• B60C17/009

  comprising annular protrusions projecting into the tyre cavity · CPC title