Vehicle Wheel with a Rim Made of Fiber-Reinforced Synthetic Material

A method of manufacturing a vehicle wheel having a rim, the rim including a rim well adjoined on both sides by a respective rim shoulder that transitions into a rim flange, the method comprising the acts of:

• placing a bottom layer of a fiber-reinforced synthetic semi-finished product on a pre-forming tool, wherein fibers of the bottom layer are aligned essentially in a circumferential direction of the rim;
• placing an additional lower layer of a fiber-reinforced synthetic semi-finished product on the bottom layer, in which additional lower layer the fibers are aligned perpendicularly to the circumferential direction of the rim;
• only in an area of the rim shoulder and the rim flange, placing several layers of fiber-reinforced semi-finished synthetic product on the layers previously arranged there, fibers of one or more of the several layers being aligned essentially in the circumferential direction of the rim;
• applying an upper layer specifically in areas of the rim flange, rim shoulder and the rim well;
• subsequently, in an area of the rim flange, applying several layers of fiber-reinforced semi-finished synthetic product whose fibers are aligned essentially in the circumferential direction of the rim;
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• applying an uppermost layer of the base laminate in the area of the rim flange, the rim shoulder and the rim well.