CONFIGURABLE WHEEL FOR A VEHICLE

Abstract: a wheel for a vehicle includes a wheel hub unit comprising, in turn, a stator portion to be coupled to a body of the vehicle by means of suspensions, a rotor portion and supporting means supporting the rotor portion on the stator portion in a rotatable manner about a rotation axis, a plurality of blades for a power absorbing turbomachine, and a deployment mechanism carried by a portion between the rotor portion and the stator portion and configured to conduct the blades between a deployed configuration, in which the blades are arranged so as to form an array of compressor blades adapted to compress an air flow along the rotation axis during the use of the vehicle, thereby resulting in a drag on the vehicle, and a rest configuration, in which the blades result in less drag on the vehicle than the deployed configuration.

Inventor(s): Isabel RAMIREZ RUIZ

CPC Classification: F03D9/32 (on moving objects, e.g. vehicles)

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