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Vehicle wheel

AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.

InventorYoichi Kamiyama

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Abstract

A vehicle wheel is provided which includes a sub air chamber member capable of suppressing a surface deformation amount in case of an action of an internal pressure of the sub air chamber member. A sub air chamber member of a vehicle wheel includes an upper surface member, a lower surface member, and bridge sections causing the upper surface member and the lower surface member to strike on each other. An end-to-end distance of an opening part of a bridge section opening on an upper surface of the upper surface member is set longer than a distance to an end portion of an opening part of another bridge section adjacent thereto. Moreover, the area of the opening parts of the bridge sections opening on the upper surface of the upper surface member is larger than the area of other general parts.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A vehicle wheel comprising:

a sub air chamber member as a Helmholtz resonator located in a tire air chamber and on an outer peripheral surface of a well portion, the sub air chamber member including
an upper surface member disposed inside the tire air chamber,
a lower surface member disposed on an outer peripheral surface side of the well portion, and
a plurality of bridge sections formed by causing the upper surface member and the lower surface member to strike on and get joined to each other, wherein
an end-to-end distance of an opening part of a certain one of the bridge sections opening on an upper surface of the upper surface member is set longer than a distance to an end portion of an opening part of a different one of the bridge sections adjacent to the certain bridge section and
wherein the sub air chamber member includes beads which are formed by rendering the lower surface member partially recessed toward the upper surface member, the beads extending in a width direction of the vehicle wheel.

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Facts

Application: 15/556,885Filed 25 Feb 2016
Priority: JP 2015-0462409 Mar 2015
Published: US 2018/0022151 A125 Jan 2018
Granted: 19 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

B60B 21/12
Rims: appurtenances, e.g. lining bands
B60B 21/02
Rims: characterised by transverse section
G10K 11/172
Methods or devices for protecting against, or for damping, noise or other acoustic waves in general: using resonance effects
B60B 2900/111
Reduction of: weight

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