Method for Producing a Cast Vehicle Wheel
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsKristian GROTH, Andreas KRAUSE
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Abstract
A method for producing a one-piece cast vehicle wheel, the wheel having at least one hub portion connected to a wheel rim via at least one spoke oriented in the radial direction of the wheel, in which at least one lost core is inserted in a molding of the casting machine, the one-piece vehicle wheel is cast, and the lost core is removed from the cast vehicle wheel and thereby forms at least one opening in the spoke. A one-piece cast vehicle wheel formed by the method is also provided.
Claims17
1-14. (canceled)
A method for producing a one-piece cast vehicle wheel having a hub section connected to a rim via at least one spoke oriented in a radial direction of the wheel, comprising the acts of:
- inserting at least one lost core into a mold of a casting machine;
- casting the one-piece cast vehicle wheel;
- and
- removing the at least one lost core from the cast vehicle wheel,
- where after removal of the at least one lost core at least one opening is present in the at least one spoke where the at least one core was located during casting.
A vehicle wheel, comprising:
- a one-piece wheel having a hub section, a rim and in a radial direction of the wheel, wherein
- the one piece wheel is formed by inserting at least one lost core into a mold of a casting machine, casting the one-piece cast vehicle wheel, and removing the at least one lost core from the cast vehicle wheel, and
- after removal of the at least one lost core at least one opening is present in the at least one spoke where the at least one core was located during casting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.