| 序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开（公告）号 | 公开（公告）日 | 发明人 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 161 | OMNI TRACTION WHEEL SYSTEM AND METHODS OF OPERATING THE SAME | US12842926 | 2010-07-23 | US20120018232A1 | 2012-01-26 | Yasuo Uehara |
| The present invention is an omni traction wheel system, which adopts an integrated differential mechanism to generate longitudinal and lateral traction forces. The omni traction wheel system may include a rotary device that delivers two individually controllable rotational forces, the differential output of which may drive a plurality of peripheral wheels to rotate laterally, and the common output of which may drive a pair of longitudinal plates to rotate longitudinally. Accordingly, the omni traction wheel system may travel in all directions. | ||||||
| 162 | SPHERICAL MOBILITY MECHANISM | US13238266 | 2011-09-21 | US20120006602A1 | 2012-01-12 | Shmuel Orenbuch |
| An omni directional mobility device made of a spherical device that is capable of omni directional movement. An omni directional vehicle including a vehicle and at least one omni directional mobility device made of a spherical device for enabling omni directional movement. | ||||||
| 163 | FRICTION DRIVE DEVICE AND OMNI-DIRECTIONAL VEHICLE USING THE SAME | US13127347 | 2009-11-02 | US20110260523A1 | 2011-10-27 | Toru Takenaka; Makoto Hirano; Hideharu Izumi; Kazuya Kuwabara; Taiji Koyama; Shinichiro Kobashi; Hiroshi Gomi; Masao Sasaki |
| In a friction drive device comprising first free rollers and second free rollers contacting each other at the outer circumferential surfaces thereof to frictionally transmit power from the second free rollers to the first free rollers, in order to minimize the slippage between the first and second free rollers, minimize the power loss and cause the first free rollers to move as designed, an outer peripheral part of each first free roller defining an outer circumferential surface thereof has a different stiffness from that of an outer peripheral part of each second free roller defining an outer circumferential surface thereof. | ||||||
| 164 | Spherical mobility mechanism | US10520381 | 2003-03-06 | US08028775B2 | 2011-10-04 | Shmuel Orenbuch |
| An omni directional mobility device made of a spherical device that is capable of omni directional movement. An omni directional vehicle including a vehicle and at least one omni directional mobility device made of a spherical device for enabling omni directional movement. | ||||||
| 165 | WHEEL, AND FRICTION DRIVE DEVICE AND OMNI-DIRECTIONAL VEHICLE USING THE SAME | US13132681 | 2009-12-01 | US20110233989A1 | 2011-09-29 | Toru Takenaka; Makoto Hirano; Hideharu Izumi; Kazuya Kuwabara; Taiji Koyama; Masao Sasaki; Hiroshi Gomi; Shinichiro Kobashi |
| In a wheel for use in an omni-directional vehicle, gravel and other foreign matters are prevented from being trapped between free rollers forming the wheel, and traveling vibrations and noises are minimized at the same time. The wheel includes an annular member and a plurality of free rollers each rotatably supported by the annular member around a corresponding tangential line of the annular member, and a gap member is placed between each adjacent pair of the free rollers to fill a gap defined between the free rollers. | ||||||
| 166 | Omni-directional wheel | US12321903 | 2009-01-26 | US07980335B2 | 2011-07-19 | Steven D. Potter |
| An omni-directional wheel includes a hub rotatable about a wheel axis and a first row of angled rollers about the hub each rotatably supported by the hub. There is at least a second row of angled rollers about the hub each also rotatably supported by the hub. The rollers of the second row are axially offset along the wheel axis from the first row, and rotationally offset from the first row about the wheel axis, and not coaxial with the rollers of the first row. | ||||||
| 167 | DRIVE UNIT | US12882468 | 2010-09-15 | US20110070998A1 | 2011-03-24 | Toru TAKENAKA; Hiroshi GOMI; Shinichiro KOBASHI; Taiji KOYAMA; Masao SASAKI; Hideharu IZUMI; Kazuya KUWABARA |
| A drive unit includes a main wheel having an annular member, and a plurality of driven rollers that are rotatably attached to the annular member, a plurality of first drive rollers and a plurality of second drive rollers, which are provided with the annular member between them and arranged such that they make contact with the outer peripheral faces of the driven rollers, a first holder and a second holder, which are arranged with the annular shaft between them and respectively hold the plurality of first drive rollers and the plurality of second drive rollers while allowing them to rotate, and a first drive unit and a second drive unit that rotationally drive the first holder and the second holder respectively; grooves are formed in the outer peripheral faces of the driven rollers at an angle to the circumferential direction thereof. | ||||||
| 168 | OMNIDIRECTIONAL WHEEL AND METHOD FOR THE ASSEMBLY THEREOF | US12810027 | 2009-04-20 | US20100270850A1 | 2010-10-28 | Sven Brudniok |
| An omnidirectional wheel has a hub that is rotatable around a rotational axis, and two wheel discs connected to the hub and spaced coaxially on the hub. A number of roller bodies are located between the wheel discs, evenly distributed around a circumferential edge of the wheel. The respective roller axes of the roller bodies are aligned at a diagonal angle relative to the rotational axis, and are each supported in a freely rotating manner between the wheel discs at opposite ends thereof. Each roller body is mounted in a freely rotating manner in respective modules respectively attached to the wheel discs. | ||||||
| 169 | OMNI-DIRECTIONAL DRIVE DEVICE AND OMNI-DIRECTIONAL VEHICLE USING THE SAME | US12450357 | 2008-04-08 | US20100096905A1 | 2010-04-22 | Toru Takenaka; Makoto Hirano; Hideharu Izumi; Kazuya Kuwabara; Taiji Koyama; Shinichiro Kobashi |
| The omni-directional drive device comprises a main wheel (2) comprising an endless annular member rotatable around a center of cross section perpendicular to a corresponding tangential line, electric motors (5R and 5L) for producing rotative forces around the rotation axis of the main wheel (2) and around the center of cross section perpendicular to a corresponding tangential line of the main wheel (2) and an arrangement (rotary members (4R and 4L) fitted with free rollers (3R and 3L)) for converting the rotational forces of the electric motors (5R and 5L) to the rotational forces around the rotation center of the main wheel (2) and around the center (C) of cross section perpendicular to a corresponding tangential line of the main wheel (2). | ||||||
| 170 | Omni-directional wheel design for construction cost reduction | US12317566 | 2008-12-22 | US07641288B1 | 2010-01-05 | Andrew R. Baker; Mark A. Koors |
| This invention relates generally to an apparatus design that minimizes fabrication and assembly costs for an omni-directional wheel. | ||||||
| 171 | Multiple roller wheel | US11541459 | 2006-09-29 | US07566102B2 | 2009-07-28 | Graham Guile |
| A wheel 100 rotatable about a main axis 106a, including: (a) a frame 111 including multiple supports 114; (b) a first series 150 of rollers 140 radially spaced from the main axis and aligned with a first plane 160a normal to the main axis, the first series of rollers spaced to form a first discontinuous rim; and (c) a second series 152 of rollers radially spaced from the main axis and aligned with a second plane 160c normal to the main axis. The second series of rollers are spaced to form a second discontinuous rim. The first and second planes are aligned parallel to and spaced from one another. Each roller 140 is: (i) rotatable about an axis normal 117 to the main axis; (ii) mounted between a pair of the supports 115; and (iii) has a lateral central cross-sectional diameter greater than the diameter of its end portions. When viewed in side elevation, the effective ground contacting surface of each of the rollers of the first series of rollers overlaps with the effective ground contacting surface of at least one diagonally adjacent roller of the second series of rollers so that the wheel is adapted to make effective ground contact through at least two of the rollers at any one time for effective travel in directions having a component parallel to the main axis. The frame is furthermore incapable of flexing sufficiently to permit the rollers from being removed or dislodged from the frame, but capable of flexing sufficiently under high loads to redistribute load stress throughout the frame. | ||||||
| 172 | Omnidirectional Electric Wheelchair Control System | US12067639 | 2006-09-21 | US20080202837A1 | 2008-08-28 | Antonio Fernando Macedo Ribeiro; Pedro Luis Da Costa E Silva; Ivo Mauro Correia Moutinho; Nino Sancho Sampaio Martins Pereira; Paula Alexandre Sousa Braga |
| This invention refers to a wheelchair control system which enables them to move in an omnidirectional way without much effort by its user. The system is made up of a base (1) where the wheels and motors are attached (2) the batteries (3). The necessary electronics to the full functioning of the wheelchair are located on the second level (4). On the next level up, is placed the processing unit (5). Over all this structure is placed the wheelchair seat (6). On its arm is mounted a joystick (or other wheelchair controlling device) (7) as well as a digital screen (8) so that the user can write and read the all the wheelchair information. The processing unit on board can also receive information from sensors located all around the wheelchair to automatically avoid obstacles. Additionally, this wheelchair control system is electrically fed through rechargeable batteries or fuel cells (3), offering great usage autonomy. | ||||||
| 173 | OMNIWHEEL AND VEHICLE USING THE SAME | US11692927 | 2007-03-29 | US20080156616A1 | 2008-07-03 | Kao-Hone Chu; Hung-Cheng Yen; Hsuan-Kuan Huang |
| An omniwheel is provided, which includes an omniwheel shaft, two wheel covers fixed at two ends of the omniwheel shaft, and a plurality of roller sets. The roller sets are coupled between the two wheel covers. Each of the roller sets has a plurality of rollers and at least one coupler, and each of the rollers has a roller shaft. The roller shafts are coupled with each other via the coupler, and each of the roller sets is respectively coupled to the wheel covers via the rollers disposed at two ends of the roller set. The omniwheel shaft and the roller shaft are inclined with respect to each other at an angle. | ||||||
| 174 | Motorized wheelchair | US11715514 | 2007-03-08 | US20070261897A1 | 2007-11-15 | Hideki Torita |
| A motorized wheelchair having right and left motorized rear wheels, and fixed front wheels in which a plurality of rollers rotatable in a direction orthogonal to an alignment direction of wheels are disposed therearound, comprises transmission rollers to transmit the rotation of the rear wheels to the front wheels while being disposed at a transmission position between circumferential surfaces of front and rear wheels in order to easily perform the switching to the four-wheel drive as necessary, a roller supporting arm for rotatably and oscillatingly supporting the transmission rollers in the front-rear direction of the wheelchair, and transmission roller pressure-contact springs for urging the roller supporting arm in a direction of the transmission position so as to be pressure-contacted with the circumferential surfaces of the wheels at the transmission position. An operation lever constrains the roller supporting arm in an interlocking manner in the direction away from the transmission position when being at the regular position, and releases the constrains when the operation lever being at the working position so as to allow the transmission rollers to be disposed at the transmission position. | ||||||
| 175 | Wheel assembly and wheelchair | US10961442 | 2004-10-08 | US07264315B2 | 2007-09-04 | Lonnie Jay Lamprich; Bradley Keith Lamprich |
| A wheel assembly having multiple small rotatable wheels mounted laterally thereon whereby lateral movement as well as forward and backward movement is provided. A pair of the wheel assemblies are utilized on a hand-propelled wheelchair that can be moved laterally as well as in the standard forward-reverse motion. The wheelchair comprises a frame, one or more axles, a pair of main wheels rotatable on the one or more axles, and a plurality of small rotatable outer wheels positioned laterally on the main wheels. | ||||||
| 176 | Load carrying vehicle and ejection mechanism and methods related thereto | US11294337 | 2005-12-06 | US20070048115A1 | 2007-03-01 | Nicholas Fenelli; Robert Mullowney |
| Apparatus for transporting, loading, and off-loading munitions with improved efficiency and safety. In preferred embodiments, a munitions transport and loading apparatus which employs omni-directional wheel modules for optimized maneuverability. | ||||||
| 177 | Spherical mobility mechanism | US10520381 | 2006-05-25 | US20060243497A1 | 2006-11-02 | Shmuel Orenbuch |
| An omni directional mobility device made of a spherical device that is capable of omni directional movement. An omni directional vehicle including a vehicle and at least one omni directional mobility device made of a spherical device for enabling omni directional movement. | ||||||
| 178 | Multiple directional wheel | US10275530 | 2001-09-20 | US06857707B2 | 2005-02-22 | Graham Guile |
| A wheel (1) with an integrally formed wheel frame including a central hub (2) rotatable about a main axis, a plurality of first supports in a first plane transverse to the main axis and radially spaced from the central hub (2) to form a first discontinuous rim with a first series of rollers (4) regularly spaced around the first rim, a plurality of second supports radially spaced from the hub to form a second discontinuous rim with a second series of rollers (5) regularly spaced around the second rim, each rollers having a main body wherein the lateral central cross-sectional diameter is greater then the diameter of the end portions, each roller being rotatable about an axis transverse to the main axis and when viewed from a side elevation, there being substantial overlap of each of the first series of rollers (4) with each diagonally adjacent roller of the second series of rollers (5). | ||||||
| 179 | Multiple directional wheel | US10275530 | 2003-03-20 | US20040004390A1 | 2004-01-08 | Graham Guile |
| A wheel (1) with an integrally formed wheel frame including a central hub (2) rotatable about a main axis, a plurality of first supports in a first plane transverse to the main axis and radially spaced from the central hub (2) to form a first discontinuous rim with a first series of rollers (4) regularly spaced around the first rim, a plurality of second supports radially spaced from the hub to form a second discontinuous rim with a second series of rollers (5) regularly spaced around the second rim, each rollers having a main body wherein the lateral central cross-sectional diameter is greater then the diameter of the end portions, each roller being rotatable about an axis transverse to the main axis and when viewed from a side elevation, there being substantial overlap of each of the first series of rollers (4) with each diagonally adjacent roller of the second series of rollers (5). | ||||||
| 180 | OMNI-DIRECTIONAL MUNITIONS HANDLING VEHICLE | US10142215 | 2002-05-09 | US20030221878A1 | 2003-12-04 | Andrew D. Park |
| A munitions handling vehicle is adapted for loading and unloading weapons in military aircraft. The munitions handling vehicle includes a vehicle chassis and a plurality of wheel axles attached to the chassis. A plurality of omni wheels are mounted on respective wheel axles, and cooperate to induce omni-directional movement of the vehicle. A mechanical lift is supported by the vehicle chassis. A munitions carrier is secured to a top end of the lift, and is movable upon actuation of the lift between a weapons-transport position and an aircraft-access position. In the weapons-transport position, the lift is sufficiently retracted adjacent the vehicle chassis to facilitate transport of weapons in the carrier to and from the aircraft. In the aircraft-access position, the lift is sufficiently extended to enable precision loading and unloading of weapons in the aircraft without repositioning or reconfiguring the aircraft. | ||||||
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