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US 2020/0282447 A1Published application
Method of manufacturing hub for a non-pneumatic wheel
AssigneeCompagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin
InventorsAntonio Delfino, Philippe Berguerand
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Abstract
A method for manufacturing a wheel hub (300) for a non-pneumatic wheel (100). A sheet (332) of material may be folded, cut, bent, and otherwise processed to form portions of the desired wheel hub(300). The wheel hub (300) may be connected with an annular band (108) through load supporting members (106) that can be selectively connected and disconnected from the hub (300).
Claims15
A method of manufacturing a wheel hub, the method comprising:
- bending a sheet of material into a plurality of precursor elements that repeat along a predetermined direction;
- attaching the sheet from the bending to an annular member having axial, radial, and circumferential directions such that the precursor elements repeat along the circumferential direction;
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- cutting each precursor element along the axial direction so as divide each precursor element into pairs of opposing fingers and create a plurality of channels extending along the axial direction.
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