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US 2010/0141018 A1Published application
Centrifugal wheel
OwnerGeoffrey McCueinventor
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Abstract
A centrifugal wheel apparatus for a vehicle having a plurality of pivoting elements attachable to an interior of a vehicle wheel that, when subjected to centripetal force, pivot away from the vehicle wheel and toward a pneumatic tire attached to the vehicle wheel to reshape the pneumatic tire into a dome thereby decreasing surface contact between the vehicle and a surface so that the vehicle may travel with less resistance and increased economy.
Claims13
A vehicle wheel element attachable to a vehicle, the vehicle wheel element comprising:
- a pivot element mounted to the vehicle wheel element that is moveable from a retracted configuration to an extended configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.