公开(公告)号：US20140049098A1

公开(公告)日：2014-02-20

申请号：US13588531

申请日：2012-08-17

申请人： Ariana Jacqueline Keeling ,  Kirby Shane Cook ,  Timothy Paul Kowalczyk ,  Aaron Joseph Ruff ,  Sean Michael McDonald ,  Sean Michael Greene ,  Marc Celestini ,  Brian Alexander Nelson

发明人： Ariana Jacqueline Keeling ,  Kirby Shane Cook ,  Timothy Paul Kowalczyk ,  Aaron Joseph Ruff ,  Sean Michael McDonald ,  Sean Michael Greene ,  Marc Celestini ,  Brian Alexander Nelson

IPC分类号： B62D55/20 ,  B62D55/12 ,  B62D55/065

CPC分类号： B62D55/20 ,  B60B15/22 ,  B60B2900/351

摘要： A robotic vehicle is provided with improved traction and mobility via a specially designed wheel apparatus including a relatively rigid wheel structure formed from two circular, coaxial sprocketed wheel plates separated by a central hub. The sprockets on the wheel plates are circumferentially aligned with one another, with axially facing sprocket pairs being received in areas defined between circumferentially adjacent pairs of tread links in a series of tread links, equal in number to the number of sprocket pairs, arranged in a circular array around the periphery of the wheel structure. The sprocket pairs are sized and configured in a manner such that substantial relative axial and circumferential movement between the wheel structure and the tread link array are blocked, with the axially facing sprockets in each sprocket pair being axially and resiliently deflected toward one another by surface portions of their associated tread link area.

摘要翻译： 机器人车辆通过专门设计的车轮设备提供改进的牵引力和移动性，该车轮设备包括由两个由中心轮毂隔开的圆形同轴的链轮轮板形成的相对刚性的车轮结构。 轮板上的链轮彼此周向对齐，其轴向面向的链轮对被容纳在一系列胎面连接件中的周向相邻的胎面连接件对之间限定的区域中，其数量与链轮对的数量相等，排列成 围绕轮结构周边的圆形阵列。 链轮对的尺寸和构造方式使得车轮结构和胎面连杆阵列之间的实质相对的轴向和周向运动被阻挡，每个链轮对中的轴向相对的链轮通过表面部分彼此轴向和弹性地偏转 的相关胎面连接区域。

公开(公告)号：US09211922B2

公开(公告)日：2015-12-15

申请号：US13588531

申请日：2012-08-17

申请人： Ariana Jacqueline Keeling ,  Kirby Shane Cook ,  Timothy Paul Kowalczyk ,  Aaron Joseph Ruff ,  Sean Michael McDonald ,  Sean Michael Greene ,  Marc Celestini ,  Brian Alexander Nelson

发明人： Ariana Jacqueline Keeling ,  Kirby Shane Cook ,  Timothy Paul Kowalczyk ,  Aaron Joseph Ruff ,  Sean Michael McDonald ,  Sean Michael Greene ,  Marc Celestini ,  Brian Alexander Nelson

IPC分类号： B62D55/20 ,  B60B15/22

CPC分类号： B62D55/20 ,  B60B15/22 ,  B60B2900/351

摘要： A robotic vehicle is provided with improved traction and mobility via a specially designed wheel apparatus including a relatively rigid wheel structure formed from two circular, coaxial sprocketed wheel plates separated by a central hub. The sprockets on the wheel plates are circumferentially aligned with one another, with axially facing sprocket pairs being received in areas defined between circumferentially adjacent pairs of tread links in a series of tread links, equal in number to the number of sprocket pairs, arranged in a circular array around the periphery of the wheel structure. The sprocket pairs are sized and configured in a manner such that substantial relative axial and circumferential movement between the wheel structure and the tread link array are blocked, with the axially facing sprockets in each sprocket pair being axially and resiliently deflected toward one another by surface portions of their associated tread link area.

摘要翻译： 机器人车辆通过专门设计的车轮设备提供改进的牵引力和移动性，该车轮设备包括由两个由中心轮毂隔开的圆形同轴的链轮轮板形成的相对刚性的车轮结构。 轮板上的链轮彼此周向对齐，其轴向面向的链轮对被容纳在一系列胎面连接件中的周向相邻的胎面连接件对之间限定的区域中，其数量与链轮对的数量相等，排列成 围绕轮结构周边的圆形阵列。 链轮对的尺寸和构造方式使得车轮结构和胎面连杆阵列之间的实质相对的轴向和周向运动被阻挡，每个链轮对中的轴向相对的链轮通过表面部分彼此轴向和弹性地偏转 的相关胎面连接区域。