Wheel and mobility including the same
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, MOBINN Inc.
InventorsSun Myoung Jo, Jin Choi, Hoon Chung
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Abstract
A mobile apparatus is provided. The mobile apparatus may include: a body including a material of which a shape is reversibly deformable; a first link rotatably coupled to the body; a second link having one side rotatably coupled to the first link and the other side rotatably coupled to the body; a first shaft provided in a region, in which the first link is rotatably coupled to the body, and inserted into the first link and the body; a second shaft provided in a region, in which the second link is rotatably coupled to the first link, and inserted into the first link and the second link; and a third shaft provided in a region, in which the second link is rotatably coupled to the body, and inserted into the second link and the body.
Claims20
A wheel comprising:
- a body comprising a material of which a shape is reversibly deformable;
- a first link rotatably coupled to the body;
- a second link having one side rotatably coupled to the first link and the other side rotatably coupled to the body;
- a first shaft disposed in a region, in which the first link is rotatably coupled to the body, and inserted into the first link and the body;
- a second shaft disposed in a region, in which the second link is rotatably coupled to the first link, and inserted into the first link and the second link;
- a third shaft disposed in a region, in which the second link is rotatably coupled to the body, and inserted into the second link and the body;
- and
- a first bearing disposed in the first link in a region, in which the first shaft passes through the first link,
- wherein the first shaft passes through the first bearing, and
- wherein the first bearing comprises:
- a first bearing inner race coupled to the first shaft;
- and
- a first bearing outer race disposed on an outside of the first bearing inner race and coupled to the first link.
A mobile apparatus comprising a wheel,
- wherein the wheel comprises:
- a body of which shape is reversibly deformable;
- a first link rotatably coupled to the body;
- a second link, wherein a first side of the second link is rotatably coupled to the first link and a second side of the second link is rotatably coupled to the body;
- a first shaft disposed in a region, in which the first link is rotatably coupled to the body, and inserted into the first link and the body;
- a second shaft disposed in a region, in which the second link is rotatably coupled to the first link, and inserted into the first link and the second link;
- a third shaft disposed in a region, in which the second link is rotatably coupled to the body, and inserted into the second link and the body;
- and
- a first bearing disposed in the first link in a region, in which the first shaft passes through the first link,
- wherein the first shaft passes through the first bearing, and
- wherein the first bearing comprises:
- a first bearing inner race coupled to the first shaft;
- and
- a first bearing outer race disposed on an outside of the first bearing inner race and coupled to the first link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.