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The Mecanum wheel is a design for a wheel that can move a vehicle in any direction. It is sometimes called the Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon, who came up with the idea when he was an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB. It was patented in the United States on November 13, 1972.