Delta wheel
AssigneeDelta Wheels, LLC
InventorsArmin VON CZARNOWSKI, Peter VON CZARNOWSKI, Dirk UFFELMANN
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Abstract
A wheel for a vehicle comprises a rim to support a tire and a wheel disc connected to the rim and configured to engage an axle hub of a vehicle. The wheel disc comprises one or more spokes extending outwardly from a center section of the wheel disc to the rim, each spoke being formed by a substantially planar curbside spoke member and a substantially planar inside spoke member, The curbside and inside spoke members are oriented transversely to each other and to a portion of the center section lying between the curbside and inside spoke members to define a triangle. A plane of the triangle is substantially parallel to a center axis of symmetry of the disc.
Claims41
A wheel for a vehicle, comprising:
- a rim to support a tire;
- and
- a wheel disc connected to the rim and configured to engage an axle hub of a vehicle, wherein the wheel disc comprises one or more spokes extending outwardly from a center section of the wheel disc to the rim, each of the one or more spokes being formed by a curbside spoke member having a substantially planar curbside spoke surface and an inside spoke member having a substantially planar inside spoke surface, wherein outer ends of the curbside and inside spoke members engage the rim and inner ends of the curbside and inside spoke members engage the center section of the wheel disc, wherein the substantially planar curbside and inside spoke surfaces are oriented transversely to each other and to a surface portion of the center section lying between the substantially planar curbside and inside spoke surfaces to define a triangle, and wherein a plane of the triangle is substantially parallel to a center axis of the disc.
A wheel for a vehicle, comprising:
- a rim to support a tire, a curbside edge of the rim defining a rim plane;
- a wheel disc connected to the rim and configured to engage an axle hub of a vehicle, wherein the wheel disc comprises one or more spokes extending outwardly from a center section of the wheel disc to the rim, each of the one or more spokes being formed by a curbside spoke member and an inside spoke member, wherein outer ends of the curbside and inside spoke members engage the rim and inner ends of the curbside and inside spoke members engage the center section of the wheel disc, and wherein the curbside spoke member has a substantially planar curbside spoke surface and the inside spoke member has a substantially planar inside spoke surface and wherein the substantially planar curbside spoke surface lies substantially in the rim plane and the substantially planar inside spoke member is transverse to the rim plane.
A method, comprising:
- forming a first substantially flat circular sheet from a flat intermetallic sheet;
- forming a second substantially flat circular sheet from the flat intermetallic sheet;
- forming the at least a portion of the second circular sheet into a conical shape by deep drawing;
- and
- joining the first substantially flat circular sheet and the second conically shaped circular sheet to form a wheel having an outer rim.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.