US 2020/0317006 A1 · VEHICLE WHEEL INCLUDING WAVELENGTH TUBE MEMBER

Vehicle wheel including wavelength tube member

AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Seowoo industry Go., Ltd., Hyundai Sungwoo Casting Co., Ltd.

InventorsJun-Min Lee, Young-Chan KIM, Min-Soo KIM, Young-Rae Jo, Jong-Ju Lee, Da-Woon Lim, Sang-Bum Park, Sung-Hoon KIM, Dong-Yong Shin, Jae-Hyun Hwang, Ui-Min Jeong

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Abstract

A vehicle wheel including a wavelength tube member may include spokes, a cylindrical rim configured to connect both circumferential portions of the spokes, and a wavelength tube member accommodated on the rim between the first and second circumferential portions of the spokes and configured to cancel sound wave generated in a cavity formed between the rim and a tire, wherein the wavelength tube member may include a rim seating portion being in surface-contact with and accommodated on an external surface of the rim; and a plurality of wavelength tube portions formed on the rim seating portion.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A vehicle wheel including a wavelength tube member, the vehicle wheel comprising:

spokes;
a cylindrical rim connecting first and second circumferential portions of the spokes;
and
the wavelength tube member accommodated on the cylindrical rim between the first and second circumferential portions of the spokes and configured to cancel sound wave generated in a cavity formed between the cylindrical rim and a tire,
wherein the wavelength tube member includes:
a rim seating portion being in contact with and accommodated on an external surface of the cylindrical rim;
and
a plurality of wavelength tube portions formed on the cylindrical rim seating portion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/681,605Filed 12 Nov 2019

Priority

KR 10-2019-00389953 Apr 2019

Published

8 Oct 2020

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Classification11 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
G10K 11/175
Methods or devices for protecting against, or for damping, noise or other acoustic waves in general: using interference effects; Masking sound
B60B 17/0024
Construction of wheel bodies, e.g. disc wheels: with noise reducing means