Arrangement with a wheel and a planar cover element for a vehicle, cover element, wheel, and vehicle
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorMike Seidel
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Abstract
An arrangement includes a wheel and at least one sheet-shaped covering element. The wheel has a respective free space between at least two spokes that are adjacent in the circumferential direction. The covering element and rim are configured such that a gap is formed in the region of the step from the arrangement of the covering element relative to the rim creates an at least two-fold deflection of a flow passing through the gap from an inside of the vehicle toward an outside of the vehicle or from the outside of the vehicle toward the inside of the vehicle.
Claims16
An arrangement, comprising:
- a wheel and at least one sheet-shaped covering element, wherein
- the wheel comprises a rim, a hub and multiple spokes distributed around a wheel axis of rotation in a circumferential direction,
- the rim is connected to the hub by the spokes,
- the wheel has a respective free space between at least two spokes that are adjacent in the circumferential direction,
- the sheet-shaped covering element at least partially covers the respective free space,
- wherein the free space, on an outer side of the rim in relation to a functional installation state of the arrangement in a vehicle, has a slight step on an inner edge, the slight step extending at least in certain portions along the inner edge,
- wherein the covering element is configured such that an inner surface, facing toward the rim, of the covering element, together with an outer surface of the outer side of the rim, forms a gap in a region of the step, and
- wherein the covering element and the rim are configured such that the gap formed in the region of the step from the arrangement of the covering element relative to the rim creates an at least two-fold deflection of a flow passing through the gap from an inside of the vehicle toward an outside of the vehicle or from the outside of the vehicle toward the inside of the vehicle.
A sheet-shaped covering element for a wheel having a free space between adjacent spokes, and on an outer side of a rim in relation to a functional installation state in a vehicle has a slight step on an inner edge, the slight step extending at least in certain portions along the inner edge, the sheet-shaped covering element comprising:
- an inner surface of the covering element, facing toward the rim, configured such that, together with an outer surface of an outer side of the rim, forms a gap in a region of the step, wherein
- the covering element is configured such that the gap resulting in the region of the step creates an at least two-fold deflection of a flow passing through the gap from an inside of the vehicle toward an outside of the vehicle or from the outside of the vehicle toward the inside of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.