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US 11,427,028 B2Granted
Bicycle wheel and method of manufacturing the same
AssigneeCorex Materials Corporation
InventorsShao-Chen Chiu, Chia-Ming Ku
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Abstract
A bicycle wheel has a wheel frame. The wheel frame is a hollow and annular frame and is composited by multiple equally sized wheel bars. Each one of the wheel bars has two halves connected to each other to form the wheel bar, and each one of the two halves being made by laminating, heating and forming a thermoplastic prepreg. The equally sized wheel bars are connected to each other to form the bicycle wheel.
Claims6
A bicycle wheel having:
- a wheel frame being a hollow and annular frame and having
- multiple equally sized wheel bars that are modularly connected to form the wheel frame, and each one of the equally sized wheel bars having
- two halves, which are respectively an upper half and a lower half, connected to each other to form the wheel bar, and each one of the two halves being made by laminating, heating and forming a thermoplastic prepreg according to a design of a modular mold, the thermoplastic prepreg having a number of laminated layers, each layer having an orientation of fiber angles corresponding to mechanical properties, dimensions, and a thickness of the bicycle wheel;
- wherein
- the equally sized wheel bars are connected to each other to form the wheel frame;
- the bicycle wheel has multiple ribs radially spaced apart from the wheel frame, and each one of the ribs has
- an inner end, and the inner ends of the ribs connected to each other;
- and
- an outer end, and the outer ends of the ribs connected to an inner side of the wheel frame;
- each rib has two halves connected to each other to form the rib, and each one of the two halves is made by laminating, heating and forming a thermoplastic prepreg;
- and
- the multiple ribs are connected to the wheel frame to form the bicycle wheel.
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