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AssigneeThyssenkrupp Carbon Components GmbH
InventorsWerner Hufenbach, Martin Lepper, Jens Werner, Christian Koehler
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The invention relates to a wheel rim having a wheel disk (3) made of a fiber composite and having fastener for fastening the wheel disk (3) to a wheel hub (5) of a vehicle, wherein the wheel disk (3) has at least one opening (8) for receiving the wheel hub (5) and the opening (8) is designed to have a conical centring surface (9) for the corresponding seat of a fastener. According to the invention the reinforcing fibers of the fiber composite are arranged in planar layers (10) and at least a part of the fiber layers (10) is arranged in an edge region (12) of the opening (8) perpendicular to the centring surface (9) of the wheel disk (3).
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A wheel rim, wherein the wheel rim comprises a wheel disk of fiber composite material and at least one fastener to fasten the wheel disk at a wheel hub of a vehicle, the wheel disk having an opening to accommodate the wheel hub, which opening is formed with a conical centring surface for a corresponding seat of the at least one fastener, and wherein reinforcing fibers of the fiber composite material are arranged in sheet-like fiber layers and at least one part of the fiber layers is arranged in a first border area of the opening perpendicular to the centring surface of the wheel disk.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.