Vehicle wheel and resonance reducer
AssigneesToyota Tsusho Corporation, Toyotsu Automotive Creation Corporation
InventorsYuho Furumori, Tsukasa Tachino, Takashi Koyama
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Abstract
A resonator is engaged with an outer circumferential surface of a rim of a wheel so as to be fixed to the outer circumferential surface. The resonator includes a body including an elongated resonant space extending along the outer circumferential surface of the rim and includes an opening arranged at the body to connect, to an outside of the resonant space, at least one of two ends of the resonant space in an extension direction of the resonant space. The resonant space and the opening form a resonance tube.
Claims17
A vehicle wheel, comprising:
- a rim;
- and
- a resonance reducer that is engaged with an outer circumferential surface of the rim so as to be fixed to the outer circumferential surface of the rim, wherein
- the resonance reducer includes:
- a body including an elongated resonant space extending along the outer circumferential surface of the rim;
- and
- an opening arranged at the body to connect, to an outside of the resonant space, at least one of two ends of the resonant space in an extension direction of the resonant space,
- the resonant space and the opening form a resonance tube, and
- the resonant space extends in a circumferential direction of the rim along the outer circumferential surface of the rim such that the resonant space is folded back at at least one position.
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A resonance reducer configured to be engaged with an outer circumferential surface of a rim so as to be fixed to the outer circumferential surface of the rim, the resonance reducer comprising:
- a body extending in an arcuate manner;
- a resonant space portion including an elongated resonant space extending in the body and an opening arranged at the body to connect, to an outside of the resonant space, at least one of two ends of the resonant space in an extension direction of the resonant space, the resonant space portion forming at least part of a resonance tube;
- and
- an engagement portion configured to be engaged with the rim so as to fix the body to the rim,
- wherein the resonant space extends in an extension direction of the body such that the resonant space is folded back at at least one position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.