Omnidirectional wheel
AssigneeNew Live
InventorMichel Ohruh
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an omnidirectional wheel including a central hub; and a tread peripherally mounted on the central hub. The tread includes the juxtaposition of wheels or sleeves arranged along radial planes. The wheel also includes spokes connected, two-by-two, via a shaft section. The shaft section is coaxial to the hub, which has a round cross-section, and onto which freely rotatable rings are fitted. The shaft section includes struts inserted between each ring and shaped such that rings remain in a radial position. The shaft section also includes a series of a plurality of abutting tubular segments. The invention further relates to a module for assembling an omnidirectional wheel.
Claims7
An omnidirectional wheel, comprising:
- a central hub having a radial plane;
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- a tread mounted peripherally on said central hub, said tread comprising:
- a plurality of shaft sections, each shaft section being comprised of a tubular segment, each tubular segment being aligned along a respective radius of said radial plane of said central hub and having a round cross-section;
- spokes connected on at least two tubular segments of respective shaft sections, each spoke being aligned along another respective radius of said radial plane of said central hub;
- freely rotatable rings inserted onto said shaft sections, each rotatable ring being rotatable around a respective tubular segment in a direction aligned along the respective radius of said radial plane of said central hub corresponding to said respective tubular segment;
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- struts interposed between adjacent rotatable rings and inserted onto said shaft sections, said struts engaging each tubular segment so as to hold each rotatable ring in said direction aligned along the respective radius of said radial plane of said central hub corresponding to said respective shaft section.
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