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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2009
Toru Takenaka, Saitama, JP;
Makoto Hirano, Saitama, JP;
Hideharu Izumi, Saitama, JP;
Kazuya Kuwabara, Saitama, JP;
Taiji Koyama, Saitama, JP;
Masao Sasaki, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Gomi, Saitama, JP;
Shinichiro Kobashi, Saitama, JP;
Toru Takenaka, Saitama, JP;
Makoto Hirano, Saitama, JP;
Hideharu Izumi, Saitama, JP;
Kazuya Kuwabara, Saitama, JP;
Taiji Koyama, Saitama, JP;
Masao Sasaki, Saitama, JP;
Hiroshi Gomi, Saitama, JP;
Shinichiro Kobashi, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.