Wheel rim device with patterned light capable of automatically generating electric power

• US 6,936,980 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2004
• Issued: 08/30/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Chu-Tong Wang
• Original Assignee: Chu-Tong Wang
• Inventors: Wang, Chu-Li
• Primary Examiner(s): Philogene, Haissa
• Application Number:
  US10/760,420
• Publication Number:
  US 20050156538A1
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• Field of Search: 315/77, 315/169.3, 315/312, 315/292, 315/362, 362/800, 362/806, 362/500, 362/545, 405/87, 345/48, 345/42, 345/44, 345/46, 301/37.29, 301/37.25, 301/37.108, 301/37.109, 301/37.101, 301/44.4
• US Class Current: 315/292
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 1/326 on or for wheels
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 362/806 Ornamental or decorative

Abstract

A wheel rim device with patterned light capable of automatically generating electric power has a wheel rim, an automatic generating assembly, a rectifier/filter circuit, a circuit board, a programmable chip and several light emitting components. The automatic generating assembly is accommodated on an end face of a wheel axle of the wheel rim. The circuit board is disposed on a wheel spoke of the wheel rim. The rectifier/filter circuit, the programmable chip and the light emitting components are disposed on the circuit board. Input terminals of the rectifier/filter circuit are connected to lead out wires of the automatic generating assembly. The programmable chip has a power source terminal, a trigger terminal and several I/O terminals. The power source terminal is connected with the output terminal of the rectifier/filter circuit. Each of the I/O terminals is connected with one of the light emitting components.

Claims

1. A wheel rim device with patterned light capable of automatically generating electric power, the wheel rim device comprising:

a wheel rim with wheel spokes and a wheel axle disposed thereon, an accommodating room being concavely provided on an end face of said wheel axle;

an automatic generating assembly arranged in said accommodating room of said wheel rim for generating an AC voltage when said wheel rim rotates;

a rectifier/filter circuit connected with said automatic generating assembly to rectify and filter the AC voltage generated by said automatic generating assembly to obtain a DC voltage;

a circuit board connected on one said wheel spoke of said wheel rim and having a plurality of light emitting components; and

a programmable chip disposed on said circuit board and connected with said rectifier/filter circuit and said light emitting components, said programmable chip being used to drive said light emitting components to generate various glittering and jumping dynamic variations for accomplishing the effect of persistence of vision according to different timings of the output waveform of said programmable chip when said rectifier/filter circuit outputs a DC voltage, a color mixing effect being also accomplished between said light emitting components to display different color lights.

2. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said programmable chip is formed by integrating an oscillator, a frequency selector, a ROM, a counter, a pattern memory and a buffer into a single chip microcontroller.

3. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said programmable chip has a power source terminal, a trigger terminal and several I/O terminals, said power source terminal is connected to an output terminal of said rectifier/filter circuit, and each of said I/O terminals is connected with one of said light emitting components.

4. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said automatic generating assembly is connected with one or more light emitting components.

5. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said automatic generating assembly has a shell cover having a closed face, a first cavity and a second cavity are provided on an inner face of said shell cover, said first cavity is smaller than said second cavity, an induction coil is annularly disposed in said first cavity, a magnetic component is also assembled in said first cavity, a heavy hammer is pivotally disposed at an axle portion of said magnetic component, said heavy hammer is always maintained in a vertical direction due to gravity, said heavy hammer is disposed on an inner periphery face of said second cavity, lead-out wires are extended from two distal ends of said induction coil and connected to said rectifier/filter circuit, and said induction coil generates an induced electromotive force when said wheel rim rotates.

6. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 1, wherein several holes are annularly disposed on an inner face of said accommodating room of said wheel rim.

7. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 1, wherein positioning components are annularly disposed on an outer periphery face of said shell cover of said automatic generating assembly, and several screwing components pass through said positioning components to be firmly screwed to said holes of said wheel axle.

8. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said rectifier/filter circuit is disposed on said circuit board.

9. A wheel rim device with patterned light capable of automatically generating electric power comprising:

a wheel rim having a wheel rim cover, an accommodating room being concavely provided in said wheel rim cover;

an automatic generating assembly arranged in said accommodating room of said wheel rim cover for generating an AC voltage when said wheel rim rotates;

a rectifier/filter circuit connected with said automatic generating assembly to rectify and filter the AC voltage generated by said automatic generating assembly to obtain a DC voltage;

a cover plate connected with said accommodating room of said wheel rim cover;

a circuit board connected on said wheel rim cover and having more than one light emitting component; and

a programmable chip disposed on said circuit board and connected with said rectifier/filter circuit and said light emitting components, said programmable chip being used to drive said light emitting components to generate various glittering and jumping dynamic variations for accomplishing the effect of persistence of vision according to different timings of the output waveform of said programmable chip when said rectifier/filter circuit outputs a DC voltage, a color mixing effect being also accomplished between said light emitting components to display different color lights.

10. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said programmable chip is formed by integrating an oscillator, a frequency selector, a ROM, a counter, a pattern memory and a buffer into a single chip microcontroller.

11. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 10, wherein said programmable chip has a power source terminal, a trigger terminal and several I/O terminals, said power source terminal is connected to an output terminal of said rectifier/filter circuit, and each of said I/O terminals is connected with one of said light emitting components.

12. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said automatic generating assembly is connected with one or more light emitting components.

13. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said light emitting components are assembled on said wheel rim cover.

14. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said light emitting components are assembled on both said wheel rim cover and said cover plate.

15. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 9, wherein said automatic generating assembly has a shell cover having a closed face, a first cavity and a second cavity are provided on an inner face of said shell cover, said first cavity is smaller than said second cavity, an induction coil is annularly disposed in said first cavity, a magnetic component is also assembled in said first cavity, a heavy hammer is pivotally disposed at an axle portion of said magnetic component, said heavy hammer is always maintained in a vertical direction due to gravity, said heavy hammer is disposed on an inner periphery face of said second cavity, lead-out wires are extended from two distal ends of said induction coil and connected to said rectifier/filter circuit, and said induction coil generates an induced electromotive force when said wheel rim rotates.

16. The wheel rim device as claimed in claim 9, wherein positioning components are annularly disposed on an outer periphery face of said shell cover of said automatic generating assembly, and several screwing components pass through said positioning components to be firmly screwed to said wheel rim cover.