US 2003/0080607 A1 · Fabricated vehicle wheel

Abstract

This invention relates to an improved fabricated vehicle wheel. According to one embodiment of the invention, the vehicle wheel includes a wheel rim having a plurality of holes formed therein; a wheel disc having a central mounting surface and a plurality of outwardly extending spokes, each of the spokes having at least two holes formed therein; at least one rim to disc interface area provided along each of the spokes wherein some portion of a surface of the rim and some portion of a surface of the spoke contact one another; and a fastener extending through each of the at least two holes of each of the spokes and through an associated at least two holes of the plurality of holes of the rim to secure the rim and disc together.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A fabricated vehicle wheel comprising:

a wheel rim having a plurality of holes formed therein;
a wheel disc having a central mounting surface and a plurality of outwardly extending spokes, each of said spokes having at least two holes formed therein;
at least one rim to disc interface area provided along each of said spokes wherein some portion of a surface of said rim and some portion of a surface of said spoke contact one another;
and
a fastener extending through each of said at least two holes of each of said spokes and through an associated at least two holes of said plurality of holes of said rim to secure said rim and disc together.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/161,405Filed 31 May 2002

Priority

30 Oct 2001

Published

1 May 2003

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B60B 3/044
Characterised by the attachment of rim to wheel disc: characterised by cross-sectional details of the attachment, e.g. the profile
B21D 53/26
Making other particular articles: wheels or the like
B21D 53/265
Wheels or the like: parts of wheels
B60B 3/005
Characterised by the shape of the disc: in the section adjacent to rim

Fabricated vehicle wheel

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Fabricated vehicle wheel

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Abstract

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