Mechanically driven tire pressure generation means

• US 10,442,258 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2017
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Original Assignee: Dr Ing hc F Porsche AG (Volkswagen AG)
• Inventors: Glatz, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Bellinger, Jason R
• Application Number:
  US15/724,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20180099533A1
• Time in Patent Office: 741 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/00318 on the wheels or the hubs
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/10 Arrangement of tyre-inflating pumps mounted on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/127 the pumps being mounted on the hubs

Abstract

A wheel hub arrangement having a wheel hub for mounting a rim with an inflated tire. The wheel hub arrangement has a rotary piston compressor mounted rotatably on the wheel hub. The wheel hub arrangement has a switchable mechanical coupling device, by way of which the rotary piston compressor can be switched over between a compression mode, in which the rotary piston compressor can be actuated by way of a rotational movement relative to the mounted rim or the wheel hub, and a rest mode, in which it is passive and does not produce any compressed air on the outlet side, and the rotary piston compressor producing compressed air on the outlet side for filling the tire in the compression mode.

Claims

1. A wheel hub arrangement having a wheel hub for mounting a rim of the wheel hub arrangement with an inflatable tire, the wheel hub arrangement comprising:

a rotary piston compressor that is mounted rotatably on the wheel hub,

the rotary piston compressor being configured to be switched over between a compression mode, in which the rotary piston compressor is configured to be actuated by way of a rotational movement relative to the mounted rim or the wheel hub, and a rest mode, in which the rotary piston compressor is passive and does not produce any compressed air, and

wherein the rotary piston compressor produces compressed air for filling the tire in the compression mode,

wherein the wheel hub arrangement has a tire sealant reservoir which is arranged and configured in such a way that a tire sealant can be fed into the compressed air which is produced by the rotary piston compressor.

2. The wheel hub arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rotary piston compressor is configured as a Wankel piston.

3. The wheel huh arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wheel hub arrangement has a compressed air store which is configured to be filled by the rotary piston compressor.

6. A vehicle having a plurality of the wheel hub arrangements as claimed in claim 1.

7. The vehicle as claimed in claim 6, wherein the vehicle has a common compressed air store which is configured to be filled by way of each rotary piston compressor of the wheel hub arrangements.

8. The vehicle as claimed in claim 6, wherein the vehicle has a control device for actuating the wheel hub arrangements.

9. The wheel hub arrangement as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a valve for discharging air from the tire.

4. A wheel arrangement comprising:

a wheel hub having a rotary piston compressor;

a rim with an inflatable tire that is mounted to the wheel hub;

wherein the wheel hub has a hollow spoke which is configured as a compressed air connection between the rotary piston compressor and the rim of the wheel arrangement, wherein the rotary piston compressor is positioned outside of the hollow spoke.

5. The wheel arrangement as claimed in claim 4, wherein a compressed air store, which is configured to be filled by the rotary piston compressor, is arranged in at least one spoke of the wheel arrangement.