Wheel holding member for a vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuki Nakahashi, Kenji Nakagawa
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Abstract
The wheel holding member for a vehicle has a rod-like shape, and includes: a thread portion, which is formed on an end portion on a proximal end side, and has a male thread threadedly engageable with a hub bolt hole formed in a wheel hub; a holding portion, which protrudes toward a distal end side with respect to the thread portion, and has no thread on an outer periphery thereof; and a tool insertion hole, which is exposed from an end surface on the proximal end side, and to which a tool for rotating the wheel holding member is insertable. A bottom surface of the tool insertion hole is located on the distal end side with respect to an end of the thread portion on the distal end side.
Claims8
A wheel holding member for a vehicle, which has a rod shape,
- and is to be removably mounted to a wheel hub, the wheel holding member being configured to hold a wheel under a state in which the holding member is mounted to the wheel hub, the wheel holding member comprising:
- a thread portion, which is formed on one end portion in an axial direction, and has a male thread formed on an outer peripheral surface thereof, the male thread being threadedly engageable with a hub bolt hole formed in the wheel hub;
- and
- a first portion, which extends toward a side opposite to the one end portion of the thread portion, and is insertable through a hub-bolt insertion hole formed in the wheel,
- wherein at least the thread portion has a tool insertion hole, which is opened at an end surface of the one end portion, and into which a tool for rotating the wheel holding member is insertable, and
- wherein the tool insertion hole is formed such that a bottom surface of the tool insertion hole is located on an outer side in a vehicle width direction with respect to a surface of the wheel hub in which the hub bolt hole is formed under a state in which the thread portion is threadedly engaged with the hub bolt hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.