Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Motorized wheel with suspension
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Application No.: US14785389Application Date: 2014-04-17
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Publication No.: US10173463B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Daniel Barel , Ahishay Sardes , Ran Dekel , Eran Starik , Tomer Segev
- Applicant: SOFTWHEEL LTD.
- Applicant Address: IL Tel Aviv
- Assignee: SOFTWHEEL LTD
- Current Assignee: SOFTWHEEL LTD
- Current Assignee Address: IL Tel Aviv
- Agency: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz LLP
- International Application: PCT/IB2014/000580 WO 20140417
- International Announcement: WO2014/170745 WO 20141023
- Main IPC: B60B9/02
- IPC: B60B9/02 ; A61G5/10 ; B60K7/00 ; F16F15/02 ; B60B9/24 ; B60B9/28 ; F16F1/12 ; F16F9/02 ; B60G3/01 ; B60B27/00

Abstract:
A wheel comprises a rim, a hub and a suspension unit. The wheel incorporates or is connectable to a torque source capable of producing torques up to a maximal torque for rotating the wheel around a rotation-axis. In this invention, the suspension unit includes at least one structural member, provided at least partially between the rim and the hub, configured to change in size and/or shape, relative to a nominal size and/or shape thereof, during displacements and/or rotations of the hub relative to a center point of the rim. The suspension unit also includes at least one motion resisting component adapted to retain the structural member at the nominal size and/or shape thereof under torques smaller than the maximal torque.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160068016A1 MOTORIZED WHEEL WITH SUSPENSION Public/Granted day:2016-03-10
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