Method for manufacturing a wheel for vehicles
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsSang Rak Kim, Min Jwa Seo, Yong Min Jang, Su Ji Baek
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Abstract
A wheel for vehicles may include a rim coupled to a tire, and a spoke-shaped disc including a spoke and a vent hole, the spoke-shaped disc being coupled to a side surface of the rim to support the rim, in which a coupling zone between the spoke of the spoke-shaped disc and the rim and a coupling zone between a portion of the spoke-shaped disc formed with the vent hole and the rim have a height difference in a wheel axis direction, to allow the spoke-shaped disc to support the rim at an interior and an exterior of the rim.
Claims5
A method for manufacturing a wheel for vehicles, the method comprising:
- forming a steel rim configured to be coupled to a tire;
- forming a spoke-shaped disc including a spoke and a vent hole by pressing a single steel panel;
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- coupling the spoke-shaped disc to a side surface of the rim such that a first coupling zone between the spoke of the spoke-shaped disc and the rim and a second coupling zone between a portion of the spoke-shaped disc formed with the vent hole and the rim have a height difference in a wheel axis direction, to allow the spoke-shaped disc to support the rim at an interior and an exterior of the rim,
- wherein the first coupling zone between the spoke of the spoke-shaped disc and the rim and the second coupling zone between the portion of the spoke-shaped disc formed with the vent hole and the rim have a height difference in a radial direction of the spoke-shaped disc.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.