CN1894112A - A spoked wheel for tyres - Google Patents
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A spoked wheel (1) includes a rim (2) with a plurality of holes (21) for a respective plurality of nipples (5) and an equal plurality of spokes (4) secured to the rim (2) by means of these nipples (5). The nipples are arranged to be fitted so as to be substantially gastight in the respective holes (21) in the rim for the purpose of fitting tubeless tyres to the rim.
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The present invention relates to a kind of wire wheel that comprises the feature that the main claim preamble is mentioned.
The wire wheel of the above-mentioned type extensively is used on the Bicycles and Motorcycles.Particularly in the latter's situation, need to have found to use the inner tube free form, promptly do not had an air-inflation tyre of the inner tube of a tyre.
These tires have the advantage that can relatively slowly exit when being pricked, thereby are suitable for running at high speed, i.e. the contingent situation of motor bike.
On the other hand, use tubeless tires to be unsuitable for wire wheel, unless wire wheel has some specific characteristics.
The first kind wire wheel wheel rim that is designed for the bicycle that uses tubeless tires is provided with binary channel.First passage is formed between tire and the wheel rim and is gastight manner, to constitute the plenum chamber of tire.Second channel has the hole, is used to assemble the spoke anchor fitting.The example of this technical scheme is introduced in US6474746 and US2003/0025383A1.
Yet this class wire wheel is not to be suitable for very much motor bike to use, because it has significantly increased the weight of rotating wheel rim.In addition, found that water is easy to accumulate in (it is not an air tight) in the second channel in wet environment, the harm of this situation is the increase of rotating mass, corrosion phenomenon even the serious overbalance that also can cause wire wheel.
Another kind is suitable for installing the wire wheel of tubeless tires and introduces in Japanese Patent 2003146001, European patent 1209006 and US Patent 4824177.Yet in this case, the use outer seal device is eliminated the airtight problem between wheel rim and the threaded connection.
The sealing means that this class technical scheme provides is not too reliable comparatively speaking, if generation is easy to when clashing into damage.
In addition, found owing to the elastic deformation that wheel rim in use will take place inevitably, thereby the relative motion meeting between wheel rim and the threaded connection causes serious sealing problem.This be because, even the distortion of wheel rim has only several millimeters, threaded connection all can produce longitudinal travel with the spoke of fixing on it, when sealing member is inserted between threaded connection and the wheel rim, obviously this can cause the loss of pressure of inflation of tire chamber, even can cause the moment venting of tire.
The subject matter that the present invention proposes just provides a kind of available wire wheel, and its 26S Proteasome Structure and Function all is designed to be suitable for assembling tubeless tires, and can reach reliability necessary, higher degree when being used on the high-speed motor bike.
Another object of the present invention provides a kind of wire wheel structure that can overcome technological deficiency thorny in all prior aries.
The present invention solves the problems referred to above and realizes above-mentioned purpose by the wire wheel according to the claims manufacturing.
By hereinafter more clearly understanding the features and advantages of the present invention to some DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED, these preferred embodiments only are shown in the drawings by the mode of non-limiting example, in the accompanying drawing:
-Fig. 1 is the cross section view of the part of wire wheel according to the present invention;
-Fig. 2 is the cross section view of the part of a modification wire wheel embodiment illustrated in fig. 1.
-Fig. 3-the 25th, the cross section view of the part of other modification wire wheel embodiment illustrated in fig. 1.
In the accompanying drawings, numeral 1 whole expression wire wheel comprises wheel rim 2, wheel hub 3 and a plurality of spoke 4, and spoke 4 is fixed on wheel rim 2 and the wheel hub 3 by threaded connection 5 and 6 in the opposite end respectively.Wheel rim 2 is single channel types, and promptly threaded connection 5 is directly faced the plenum chamber of tire.
At the thread rod part that in the blind hole 7 of wheel rim, is equipped with threaded connection 5 to connect wheel rim 2.
A round shank 13 is arranged on threaded connection 5, the head 14 of an increasing is arranged on the one end, it has constituted a shoulder 15 of relative this handle.On this head, there is one to drive key part 16, is used for this threaded connection is screwed in hole 7B.This driving key part can be made various forms, for example polygon, hexagonal recess, the slit that is used for screwdriver or other form.
When threaded connection 5 was screwed among the 7B of hole, it locked by for example known screw-threaded coupling adhesives.
Threaded connection 5 has threaded portion 20 on handle 13, have bevelled gas thread.
Similarly, the hole 21 of assembling threaded connection 5 has taper pipe thread portion on the wheel rim 2, forms fluid-tight sealing to cooperate with the taper pipe thread of threaded connection.
Can utilize adhesives, aquaseal and analogue further to improve the sealing situation.In this case, can adopt traditional parallel thread or be assemblied in threaded connection and wheel rim between poted assemblies.
This structure makes and itself is particularly suitable for the light alloy spoke.If wish to use the spoke of steel pole portion to substitute the light alloy spoke, then preferred employing technical scheme shown in Figure 2, be that with the difference of front embodiment the threaded connection 5 that spoke is fixed on the wheel rim is had blind hole 27, in this blind hole, be equipped with the thread end 28 of spoke bar portion 29.
Have identical thread head on another opposite end of spoke, it is assembled in the hole 12 of threaded connection 6.In this case, the shank of threaded connection 5 outside has taper pipe thread, and holds on wheel rim 2 in the hole of threaded connection same screw thread is also arranged.
Although it is preferred having pointed out the technical scheme of this use taper pipe thread, be appreciated that these screw threads also can have different pitch and profile, can be bevelled or be not bevelled.
Introduce another embodiment of the present invention with reference to Fig. 3.Adopt identical Reference numeral with the similar parts of earlier drawings.In this case, shank 13 has parallel or bevelled outside thread, has tapped blind hole 27 in the threaded connection 5, is rotary with the thread end of thru-bolt 30 in this blind hole, and the other end of thru-bolt also is among thread end and the corresponding blind hole 7b that screws in spoke 4.This spoke and threaded connection have the opposite face 31 that adjoins each other, thereby by this thru-bolt 30, spoke and threaded connection can interconnect to constitute a single component.By another variant embodiment, spoke and threaded connection also can be made for a single piece.Figure 4 illustrates this variant embodiment.In this case, be shaped on groove 32 on the shank 13 of threaded connection 5, it holds O shape ring (OR) 33, and it is assembled in the screw thread wall in hole 21 of wheel rim 2 to form sealing.
Can notice still in this case, because the effect of the shoulder 15 of an end and the screw thread 20 of the other end, make threaded connection 5 in the hole 21 of wheel rim by axial two-way locking, do not have slide relative between threaded connection and the wheel rim hole, thereby can not influence the air-tightness of sealing member 33.
Introduce another preferred embodiment of embodiment of the present invention with reference to Fig. 5.
In this embodiment, O shape ring 33 is assemblied between shoulder 15 and the annual seat 34, and this annual seat is preferably cylindrical wall, is positioned on the peristome in hole 21.In this case, groove 32 is near shoulders 15, and and the cylindrical wall 35 of seat 34 between realize fluid-tight.In this case threaded connection 5 also in hole 21 by axial two-way locking.
Introduce two other embodiment with reference to figure 6 to 9.The difference of these embodiment is that it allows to adopt the spoke of light alloy bar portion rather than the spoke of steel pole portion; Under latter instance, the present invention allows to adopt the spoke of complete conventionally form.
In both of these case, the threaded connection that uses is similar to the threaded connection that Fig. 5 embodiment is introduced, wherein be not by screw fit in the hole 21 of wheel rim 2, but can be assembled in the hole 21, and by nut 36 being screwed in passing on the threaded portion that stretches out in hole 21 and with its axial two-way locking of shank 13 from wheel rim 2 with rotating freely.Between shoulder 15 and nut 36, realized axial two-way locking here.The situation of O shape ring 33 and embodiment before is the same all to be subjected to limited axial load, and is assembled to form on the cylindrical wall 35 of seat 34 and seals.
Adopt the embodiment that adopts traditional spoke fully shown in these two kinds of embodiment, particularly Fig. 8 and 9, can rotate threaded connection 5 so that the suitable tensioning of wire wheel, jam nut 36 is to finish the finally assembling fully of wire wheel then.
Except the assembling of the wire wheel of all embodiment described last embodiment is just now all carried out in the following manner.At first threaded connection 5 is screwed in the wheel rim 2 and hold in the respective aperture of threaded connection, tighten by driving key part 16 again.By being screwed in the respective threads joint, spoke assembles spoke then.The free end of spoke can suitably be regulated by threaded connection 6 subsequently again and be fixed on the wheel hub.
Another variant embodiment of the present invention has been shown among Figure 10.This variant embodiment has been considered the problem of deriving out owing to the wire wheel assembling, if the hole that holds threaded connection on the wheel rim not with wheel hub on respective aperture align well (and definitely perfectly not aliging forever), then the bar portion of spoke can be subjected to flexure stress to compensate this not lining up.Thereby this crooked can the uneven stress formation of generation the overload on the cross-sectional plane of spoke is particularly on outermost part, promptly from axle part farthest.
Under the situation of light alloy bar spoke, owing to the diameter of spoke causes above-mentioned influence more serious greatly.In order to eliminate this shortcoming, in the embodiment shown in fig. 10, make the major diameter part made with aluminum alloy in the bar portion 108 of spoke 104 by the opposite face 109 of threaded connection 105, but be retained and this face forms a gap 102, and only the bar portion 103 by thru-bolt 110 connects.For anti-sealing enters gap 102, a deformable elastic sealing member 111 is inserted wherein, both, can be used as a deformable seal part again and sealed gap 102 as a compensation rubber cradle.
With reference to the accompanying drawings 11 to 22, other wire wheel embodiment according to the present invention is connected to threaded connection on the spoke by a pivot connecting device.In Figure 11, by the end at thru-bolt 210 part being set is that ball-shaped rotary head 202 forms pivot 201, and thru-bolt 210 is assembled in the circular seat 211 on the axial cavity 212 of threaded connection 205.When spoke is when being made by the material of steel or other respective strengths, this part-spherical rotary head also can be formed directly in the bar portion of spoke (Figure 12).
From Figure 13 to embodiment shown in Figure 21 as can be seen, this part-spherical rotary head can also have an obvious curvature, make the hole 21 that holds threaded connection 205 on the wheel rim can be arranged on the longitudinal axis of relative wheel rim, allow departure distance occupy by bulb 202 fully.Between bulb 202 and the spoke bar portion be connected can be by thru-bolt 210 head 213 (Figure 13), by being threaded 214 (Figure 14) or directly realize similarly by spoke bar portion (Figure 15 and 16).
With reference to the accompanying drawings 17 to 22, threaded connection 305 also has the seat 306 of an opening towards wheel rim 2 passages, and it is by being press fit into the lid 307 on the threaded connection 305 or sealing with being threaded.In another variant embodiment of the present invention, shown in Figure 21 and 22, threaded connection 405 is inserted in the hole 421 on the wheel rim, and operates by upsetting (upsetting) 422 or other mechanical fixation and to carry out two-way locking.In Figure 22, with spoke angled ground of mode machine up in line be used for the part-spherical rotary head the seat.
In Figure 23, the end that spoke 4 is contained in the threaded connection 500 is expansion 501, its be retained can be by sleeve 503 in the inner chamber 502 of threaded connection 500 light axial move, sleeve 503 is threaded in the axial blind hole of threaded connection 500.Sleeve 503 is by shoulder 504 lockings towards wheel hub that withstand on the threaded connection end.Threaded connection 500 is screwed in the hole 505 on the wheel rim then, and its axial locking relatively, to seal with the sealing member 506 that is assemblied in therebetween.
Embodiment among Figure 24 has the threaded connection shown in 600.It roughly is similar to front embodiment, thereby identical parts have identical Reference numeral.The difference of itself and front embodiment is that threaded connection 600 can be towards the upper shed of the end of spoke 4, and its sealing member 602 by screw cover and insertion forms the detouchable closed cover.Omitted sleeve 503.
Threaded connection in Figure 25 embodiment is shown in 700.It roughly is similar to last embodiment, thereby identical parts have identical Reference numeral.Itself and difference embodiment illustrated in fig. 24 are that spoke 4 ends are the thread segment 701 of certain-length, be rotary with the threaded connection of general type thereon, this threaded connection has cylindrical shank 702 and expansion 703, and locks by perfusion locking resin 704 in screw thread.
Thereby the present invention can realize the purpose that is proposed and compared with prior art have numerous advantages.Especially, the wire wheel that it can be made than light weight reduces rotating mass, is running at high speed and the accident bump time can both be used safely.
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1. wire wheel, comprise and have a plurality of wheel rims that hold the hole of respective threaded joint, be fixed to spoke on the described wheel rim with a plurality of of same quantity by described threaded connection, it is characterized in that described threaded connection is arranged to by essentially gastight assembling in the respective aperture on the precession wheel rim, in order to tubeless tires to be installed on wheel rim.
2. wire wheel, comprise and have a plurality of wheel rims that hold the hole of respective threaded joint, be fixed to spoke on the described wheel rim with a plurality of of same quantity by described threaded connection, it is characterized in that each threaded connection is assembled in the respective aperture on the wheel rim by axial two-way blocking device essentially gastight and remains in the described hole.
3. wire wheel according to claim 1 and 2 is characterized in that described wheel rim is the single channel form.
4. according to claim 1 or 3 described wire wheels, it is characterized in that described threaded connection and on the part that they are combined together, have taper pipe thread in the hole that holds threaded connection on the described wheel rim.
5. according to any one described wire wheel of claim 1 to 4, it is characterized in that between the screw thread of the screw thread in the hole of described wheel rim and described threaded connection shank, being inserted with other sealing arrangement.
6. wire wheel according to claim 5 is characterized in that described other sealing arrangement comprises adhesives or aquaseal.
7. wire wheel according to claim 5 is characterized in that described other sealing arrangement comprises sealing member.
8. according to the one or more described wire wheel in the claim of front, it is characterized in that described threaded connection comprises the hole, the respective threaded end of spoke bar portion is screwed in this hole and is held.
9. according to the one or more described wire wheel in the claim 1 to 6, it is characterized in that described threaded connection comprises thread rod part, its screw-in also remains in the respective screw hole on the end of threaded connection of spoke.
10. according to the one or more described wire wheel in the claim of front, it is characterized in that described spoke has the bar portion of light alloy.
11., it is characterized in that described spoke has steel pole portion according to the one or more described wire wheel in the claim of front.
12., it is characterized in that being formed with the seat that is used to hold sealing member at the shank of described threaded connection according to claim 5 or the described wire wheel of claim thereafter.
13. wire wheel according to claim 12 it is characterized in that the described seat that is used for sealing member is arranged on the midway location of described threaded portion, and described sealing member provides sealing on the screw thread in the hole of wheel rim.
14., it is characterized in that described sealing member is an O shape lopps type according to claim 12 or 13 described wire wheels.
15., it is characterized in that spoke is fixed to withstand threaded connection, as an extendible portion of threaded connection according to the one or more described wire wheel in the claim 9 to 14.
16., it is characterized in that threaded connection has the axial blind hole that runs through wherein according to the one or more described wire wheel in the claim of front.
17. according to the one or more described wire wheel in the claim of front, it is characterized in that described threaded connection has head, the shape of this head provides the key part that drives this threaded connection.
18. according to the one or more described wire wheel in the claim of front, it is characterized in that described bi-directional axial blocking device is included in shoulder on threaded connection shank one end and the screw thread on the threaded connection shank, this screw thread can engage with negative thread to remain on described threaded connection on the wheel rim and to make described shoulder withstand described wheel rim.
19. wire wheel according to claim 18 is characterized in that described sealing member is assemblied on the threaded connection shank near described shoulder.
20. wire wheel according to claim 19 is characterized in that being provided with seat in the hole on wheel rim, this seat is coaxial and be used to assemble described sealing member with this hole.
21. wire wheel according to claim 20 is characterized in that the wall that described seat has substantial cylindrical, and with described shoulder adjacency.
22. according to the one or more described wire wheel in the claim 18 to 21, it is characterized in that described negative thread is located in the nut, this nut is screwed on the threaded connection shank so that described wheel rim is clipped between described nut and the shoulder.
23., it is characterized in that between dividing opposed facing of described threaded connection and spoke bar portion large-diameter portion keeps separately by form the gap between two faces according to the one or more described wire wheel in the claim of front.
24. wire wheel according to claim 23 is characterized in that inserting the deformable seal part in described gap.
25., it is characterized in that each threaded connection is connected on the corresponding spoke by the pivot connecting device according to the one or more described wire wheel in the claim of front.
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| EP04022061.8 | 2004-09-16 |
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