Orbital wheel

Orbital wheel

The orbital wheel was designed in 1990 by Dominique Mottas of the French Osmos company in an attempt to reduce the number of moving parts by removing the center shaft and hub of the wheel and relying upon a circular rim inserted inside the wheel to support it instead. The orbital wheel was created by using two circular bearings inserted inside of each other. The inner bearing providing steering, support, and attachment to the frame. The outer bearing consists of a tire with a brake ring also fixed in. Some of the advantages seen by this design are more accurate steering, less weight, and enhanced braking (the brake is closer to the ground where the most forces act upon the wheel).

ee also

* Hubless wheel


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать реферат

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Orbital Corporation Limited — (Asx|OEC, OTCBB|OBTLY) is an Australian company that invented and developed a technology that it claims to reduce air pollution from internal combustion engines and improve fuel efficiency. Formerly known as Orbital Engine Corporation Limited,… …   Wikipedia

  • Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex — CG rendering of OPSEK The Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex (Orbitalniy Pilotiruemyi Eksperimentalniy Kompleks[1]) (OPSEK) is the planned Russian successor to the International Space Station, with the main goal of supporting deep… …   Wikipedia

  • Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station — The Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station is an orbital space station intended for commercial clients. The station was proposed in 2010 by Orbital Technologies, a Russian aerospace firm, who is collaborating to develop the station with… …   Wikipedia

  • Orbital stretch wrapping — An orbital stretch wrapper with motorized conveyor. Orbital stretch wrapping is a means of applying stretch film to a load consisting of a roll of stretch wrap supported on a vertical rotating ring and a means of passing a load through the ring s …   Wikipedia

  • Hubless wheel — A hubless wheel (also known as a rim rider or centerless wheel) is a type of wheel with no center hub. To be precise, however, the hub is actually almost as big as the wheel itself. The axle is hollow, following the wheel at very close tolerances …   Wikipedia

  • Grinding wheel — Grinding wheels A grinding wheel is an expendab …   Wikipedia

  • Big Wheel (album) — Infobox Album Name = Big Wheel Type = Album Artist = Icehouse Background = Released = 25 October 1993 Recorded = DIVA Studios, Whale Beach, Australia Genre = Rock Length = Label = dIVA/Massive Producer = Iva Davies Reviews = * Allmusic… …   Wikipedia

  • Precession — For other uses, see Precession (disambiguation). Precession of a gyroscope Precession is a change in the orientation of the rotation axis of a rotating body. It can be defined as a change in direction of the rotation axis in which the second… …   Wikipedia

  • Space station — The International Space Station in May 2011 A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft capable of supporting a crew which is designed to remain in space (most commonly in low Earth orbit) for an extended period of time, and to which… …   Wikipedia

  • mechanics — /meuh kan iks/, n. 1. (used with a sing. v.) the branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on bodies and with motion, comprised of kinetics, statics, and kinematics. 2. (used with a sing. v.) the theoretical and practical application …   Universalium

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”