US 10,583,697 B2Granted

Wheel resonator

AssigneeTigers Polymer Corporation

InventorsTakatsugu Miura, Shogo Kuroda, Toshinobu Doi, Tetsuji Miyazaki, Michio Kijima

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Abstract

A wheel resonator, which is provided by integrating a first member having a first welding surface with a second member having a second welding surface and includes a volume chamber and a communicating tube. The volume chamber has a flat shape and is configured to extend along an outer surface of a vehicle wheel when the wheel resonator is attached to the vehicle wheel. The first welding surface and the second welding surface are welded to each other, and are provided on a single welding plane. The welding plane extends in a circumferential direction and a width direction of the vehicle wheel when the wheel resonator is attached to the vehicle wheel, is a plane on which the volume chamber is divided into two volume portions, and is a plane on which the communicating tube is divided into two communication portions. The communicating tube extends along the welding plane.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A wheel resonator, comprising:

a first member having a first welding surface;
a second member integrated with the first member by welding, the second member having a second welding surface;
a volume chamber;
and
a communicating tube, wherein:
the volume chamber is configured to extend along an outer surface of a vehicle wheel when the wheel resonator is attached to the vehicle wheel, wherein the volume chamber has a smaller dimension in the radial direction than dimensions in the circumferential direction and the width direction;
the first welding surface and the second welding surface are welded to each other, and are provided on a single welding plane;
the single welding plane extends in a circumferential direction and a width direction of the vehicle wheel when the wheel resonator is attached to the vehicle wheel, the volume chamber being divided into two volume portions by the single welding plane, and the communicating tube being divided into two communicating portions by the single welding plane;
and
the communicating tube extends along the single welding plane.

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Facts

Application: 15/919,349Filed 13 Mar 2018
Priority: JP 2017-22788228 Nov 2017
Published: US 2019/0160866 A130 May 2019
Granted: 10 Mar 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

B60C 19/002
Tyre parts or constructions not otherwise provided for: noise damping elements provided in the tyre structure or attached thereto, e.g. in the…
B60B 21/12
Rims: appurtenances, e.g. lining bands
B60R 13/0861
Insulating elements, e.g. for sound insulation: for covering undersurfaces of vehicles, e.g. wheel houses
B23K 31/02
Processes relevant to this subclass, specially adapted for particular articles or purposes, but not covered by any single one of main groups…:…