Circular curved wheel and spherical wheel

Equipping four-wheel vehicles with circularly curved wheels and spherical wheels allows them to float and travel on water surfaces, addressing the sinking issue and enhancing navigation capabilities.

JP2025107122APending Publication Date: 2025-07-17西村 欣吾
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Application Number
JP2024009065
Authority / Receiving Office
JP · JP
Patent Type
Applications
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Filing Date
2024-01-05
Publication Date
2025-07-17

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Technical Problem

Four-wheel vehicles lack a floating function, causing them to sink in water and leading to potential loss of life during events like tsunamis and floods, necessitating a solution to enable them to float and operate on water surfaces.

Method used

Equip four-wheel vehicles with circularly curved wheels featuring a circumferential flange and opening hole, combined with spherical wheels and side boats, allowing them to float and paddle through water surfaces.

Benefits of technology

Enables four-wheel vehicles to float and travel on water surfaces, supporting their weight and achieving significant speed differences due to the larger spherical wheel radius, effectively navigating water bodies.

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Abstract

To solve the problem in which a vehicle submerges from the surface of water because the vehicle is not equipped with a floating function.SOLUTION: A tire wheel of a vehicle is removed and replaced with a circular curved wheel, and is fixed to an opening hole in a circumferential flange of a circular curved wheel tip with a spherical wheel side boat by a connection nut, and when a spherical wheel is installed on the circular curved wheel, the vehicle floats on the sea surface and a water paddle board installed on an outer circumference of the spherical wheel rows on the sea surface to advance.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4
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Description

Technical Field

[0001] The present invention relates to the functions, transportation, and disaster prevention measures of four-wheel automobiles floating on the sea surface, water surface, and lake surface

Background Art

[0002] Humans unconsciously carry out their daily lives, believing that it is natural to live on land. However, global warming has led to meteorological events, and on the ground where unprecedented natural disasters, linear precipitation bands, typhoons, hurricanes, etc. occur, automobiles are used for people and logistics movement, ships are used on the sea, and airplanes are used in the sky. However, all these means have caused major accidents in the past and claimed lives. In particular, there are many cases of losing lives in traffic disasters involving automobiles running on the ground. Because automobiles do not have a floating function to float on the water surface, they will sink from the water surface. In the case of river floods and tsunami high waves, submersion and inundation occur. If a four-wheel automobile can be equipped with a floating function and a running function, it can save lives and enable the function to be equipped from submersion to floating.

Prior Art Documents

Patent Documents

[0003] As of December 30, 2023, all the world's means of transportation have been proven.

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Summary of the Invention

Problems to be Solved by the Invention

[0006] On land, 4-8 wheel vehicles are adopted as the means of transportation. However, since they run on the ground, road maintenance fees are required every year for things like road construction, bridges across rivers, and traffic lights for intersections where cars and pedestrians pass. Cars do not have a floating function on the sea or water surface, so they will sink. Equip 4-wheel vehicles running on the ground with a floating function to eliminate the loss of life. Enable 4-wheel vehicles to run on the sea, rivers, and lake surfaces during tsunamis, river floods, and provide a function for transporting people and materials.

Means for Solving the Problem

[0007] To equip a 4-wheel vehicle with a floating function, the following components are provided. 1. A circular curved wheel 1, with a circumferential flange 3 formed at the tip 2 of the circular curved wheel 1, and an opening hole 4 provided in the front flange 3, the circular curved wheel 1. 2. A spherical wheel side boat 9 that matches the flange opening hole 4 of the circular curved wheel 1 is provided on the side of the spherical wheel 5, and a spherical wheel side nut 11 is required to fix its position. That is, 1. An opening hole 4 is formed in the tip flange 3 of the circular curved wheel. 2. A spherical wheel side boat 7 is provided. 3. If three components of the circular curved wheel 1 and the spherical wheel 5 (the boat and the fixing connection nut are existing parts) are prepared, the 4-wheel vehicle can float on the sea, water surface, and lake surface, and the water trough plate on the outer circumference of the spherical wheel paddles forward on the sea.

[0008] Explain the floating function and water surface running function of the 4-wheel vehicle. Since the opening 4 of the tip flange of the circular curved wheel protrudes in the outer direction of the vehicle side, the connection work with the spherical wheel 5 side boat 7 is easy. The radius of the light truck vehicle tire is 25 cm, and the radius of the large truck vehicle tire is 40 cm. In the case of a large truck, it is possible to equip spherical wheels with a radius that is 2 to 6 times the radius of the vehicle tire. That is, if the width between the front wheel center axis and the rear wheel center axis is 6 m, then even if a spherical wheel with a radius of 240 cm is equipped at the center, there is a gap of 60 cm + 60 cm = 120 cm, so there is room to equip a water trough plate, cup, etc. Land vehicles run by the friction between the tire surface and the road surface. However, since the radius dimension of the tire of an automobile is determined, the outer peripheral length of one tire rotation is limited with respect to the vehicle speed. For example, the tire radius of a light truck is 25 cm, the outer peripheral length of the tire is 157.0 cm, the tire radius of a large truck is 40 cm, the outer peripheral length of the spherical wheel with a radius of 240 cm is 1507.2 cm. When the tire rotates once, the difference in the distance advanced forward between the large truck and the light automobile is 1507.2 - 157.0 = 1350.2 cm. The large truck will advance approximately 13.5 m forward. When the tire rotates 500 times per minute, the distance advanced in one hour is 500 × 13.5 m × 60 = 405,000 m. When the water scooping plate equipped on the outer periphery of the spherical wheel smoothly scoops through the water surface, the speed will reach 405,000 m / h.

Advantages of the Invention

[0009] If the members composed of a circularly curved wheel, two floating spherical wheels, and three nuts 1, 2, and 3 for fixing 1 and 2 are replaced with automobile tire wheels, it will have the function of floating on the sea surface, water surface, and lake surface in integration with the automobile. Not only can it float, but also the four spherical wheels equipped on the floating automobile with the function of traveling on the sea surface support the weight of the automobile. There will be a large difference in the tire rotation speed, spherical wheel radius, and outer peripheral dimension according to the traveling direction in response to the engine output of the automobile. Since the shape of the water scooping plate also greatly affects the forward movement, the shape needs to be tried and tested.

Brief Description of the Drawings

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Modes for Carrying Out the Invention

[0011] Figures 1 to 5 are functional explanations after the replacement of the four-wheel automobile tire wheel and the floating spherical body wheel. Figure 1 is a cross-sectional view of the circularly curved wheel, and the tip 2 protrudes outward from the side of the vehicle. The tip 2 has a circumferential flange, and an opening hole that can be engaged with the spherical body wheel boat is provided. Figure 2 is a plan view of the circularly curved wheel 1 and the spherical body wheel 5. The four-wheel automobile light truck 12, medium-sized 13, large truck 14, vehicle wheel boat 8, and vehicle wheel nut are the same as the existing members of each model. A circumferential flange 3 is provided at the tip 2, and a circumferential flange 3 that matches the various spherical body wheel side boats 9 is provided and has an opening hole. Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view of the spherical body wheel 5. On the spherical surface side 6, a side boat 9 is provided at a position that coincides with the opening hole 8 at the tip of the circularly curved wheel, and a water trough plate 12 is provided on the outer circumference of the spherical body wheel. Therefore, when the four-wheel automobile changes from starting to high speed and the circularly curved wheel 4 makes one rotation, the spherical body wheel 5 also makes one rotation. Since the radius of the current automobile and the radius of the spherical body wheel differ by several times, a large difference occurs in the traveling direction distance. Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view after the connection between the circularly curved wheel 1 and the spherical body wheel side boat 7 is completed. Four circularly curved wheels, four spherical body wheels, and three members with 16 connection nuts have the function of floating a four-wheel automobile on the water surface. Figure 5 shows the widths of the front wheel axle 16 and the rear wheel axle 17 of the light truck 13, medium-sized 14, and large truck 15. It can be understood that the spherical body wheel radius can be made larger for the large truck 13 with a larger axle center width. That is, a difference of several times occurs in the forward distance of the same one rotation.

Explanation of Signs

[0012] 1 Circularly curved wheel 16 Spherical body wheel front wheel axle 2 Tip 17 Spherical body wheel rear wheel axle 3 Circumferential flange 18 Spherical body wheel front wheel, 4 Flange opening 19 Spherical body wheel rear wheel 5 Spherical body wheel 6 Spherical body wheel side 7 Side boat 8 Vehicle wheel boat 9 Vehicle wheel nut 10 Circularly curved wheel and spherical body wheel connection nut 11 Water trough plate on the outer circumference of the spherical body wheel 12 Axle width of light truck 13 Axle width of medium-sized truck Axle width of large trucks

Industrial Applicability

[0013] In order for a four-wheeled vehicle to have a floating function and a running function, a spherical wheel is provided at the vehicle tire wheel position, that is, a spherical wheel outer peripheral water trough plate is provided, so that the water on the sea surface is scooped up and advanced, so that the sea surface traffic and the water surface traffic travel in a straight line to the destination at the shortest distance

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