US 2012/0235465 A1 · Method and System for Forming a Wheel Structure

Abstract

A wheel structure for use in an engine-powered vehicle having an inner rim, an outer rim, an inner, partially truncated, cone-shaped element, a hub and a closing portion. The outer rim is sealingly attached to the inner rim, while the inner cone-shaped element is oriented with an opening at its truncated vertex end closer to the inner rim than its base and is then attached around the perimeter of its base to the perimeter of the outer rim. A closing portion with an opening at its center is provided which is attached at its perimeter to the perimeter of the inner cone-shaped element. The hub is connected on one side to the truncated vertex end of the inner cone and on the other side to the opening at the center of the closing portion.

Claims15

Dependent claims

1-12. (canceled)

A wheel for use with a powered vehicle, the wheel having an inner rim to be mounted facing the interior of the vehicle affixed to an outer rim to be mounted facing the exterior of the vehicle, the outer rim having further an attachment outer flange around its outer perimeter, comprising:

a hollow, open-based inner cone having a side wall, an outer flange extending around the perimeter of its base and an inner flange extending around an opening formed below its vertex, a portion of said inner cone having been truncated, the vertex of said inner cone being oriented towards the inner rim of the wheel and the outer flange of which is attached to the attachment outer flange of the outer rim;
a generally cylindrical hub having a left flange and a right flange, the left flange of which is attached to the inner flange of said inner cone;
and
a hollow, open-based outer cone having a side wall, an outer flange extending around the perimeter of its base and an inner flange extending around an opening formed below its vertex, a portion of said inner cone having been truncated, the vertex of said outer cone being oriented away from the inner rim of the wheel and the outer flange of which is attached to the outer flange of said inner cone while the inner flange of which is attached to the right flange of said hub.

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a hollow, open-based inner cone having a side wall, an outer flange extending around the perimeter of its base and an inner flange extending around an opening formed below its vertex, a portion of said inner cone having been truncated, the vertex of said inner cone being oriented towards the inner rim of the wheel and the outer flange of which is attached to the attachment outer flange of the outer rim;
a generally cylindrical hub having a left flange and a right flange, the left flange of which is attached to the inner flange of said inner cone;
and
a hollow, open-based outer cone having a side wall, an outer flange extending around the perimeter of its base and an inner flange extending around an opening formed below its vertex, a portion of said inner cone having been truncated, the vertex of said outer cone being oriented towards the inner rim of the wheel and the outer flange of which is attached to the outer flange of said inner cone while the inner flange of which is attached to the right flange of said hub.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/148,052Filed 16 Mar 2011

Published

20 Sep 2012

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B60B 25/008
Rims split in circumferential direction: comprising spacer means
B60B 3/002
Disc wheels, i.e. wheels with load-supporting disc body: characterised by the shape of the disc
B60B 3/08
Disc wheels, i.e. wheels with load-supporting disc body: with disc body formed by two or more axially spaced discs
B60B 5/02
Wheels, spokes, disc bodies, rims, hubs, wholly or predominantly made of non-metallic material: made of synthetic material

Method and System for Forming a Wheel Structure

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Method and System for Forming a Wheel Structure

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Abstract

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