Patent ID: 7233221

Claim:
Magnetic wheel for vehicles, especially for vehicles intended to be displaced over ferromagnetic surfaces, of iron or steel, such as those which constitute the side walls of tanks of large dimensions and the like, characterized in that it is incorporated from a rim ( 1 - 1 ′), supplemented with a tyre ( 4 ) of an elastomeric material, so that rim ( 1 - 1 ′) and tyre ( 4 ) configure a cylindrical chamber ( 8 ), inside which a magnetic annulus ( 9 ) is installed, specifically a permanent magnet of adequate strength, with the special particularity that the diameter of said magnetic annulus ( 9 ) is substantially smaller than the diameter of the chamber ( 8 ) established inside the rim, and that said magnetic annulus ( 9 ) is enabled to be displaced hypocycloidally inside said chamber ( 8 ).