| 摘要 |
<p>The invention relates to a rimless vehicle wheel comprising a hub and a plurality of cantilevered blades spaced around the hub. Each blade has an inner root extending from the hub, an outer tip, and first and second major blade surfaces extending between the root and tip. Each blade has a stiffness allowing independent flexure, along at least part of its length, between a first unloaded blade configuration and any number of second loaded blade configurations. The depth of at least one blade from front to back in the meridian plane measured proximate the blade tip is greater than the same measurement proximate the blade root. The blades are adapted to flex in the circumferential plane of the wheel. Multi-part sleeves are adhered to the blade tips so as to provide a sacrificial wearing surface.</p> |
