Wheel locking device for automobile
AssigneeTaka-Ai Co., Ltd.
InventorMitsuru Furuse
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Abstract
A wheel locking device is a locking means wherein one of a plurality of fastening nuts with which a wheel plate covering both the inner face part of a vehicle tire and the external face of a wheel is secured to the wheel by a lockable nut which cannot be removed without using a key.
Claims4
A wheel locking device for an automobile comprising a wheel lock external sleeve having a head and a rear, and a rotor receiving part at its head and a cylindrical shell at its rear, a rotor rotatably engaged in said rotor receiving part, wherein said rotor includes both a head face having a key face engagement recess, and a rotary shaft, a latch engaged in the rotary shaft of said rotor, and a wheel nut fitted inside said wheel lock external sleeve, wherein said nut includes a rimmed head part, said wheel lock external sleeve having fine slots in the rotor receiving part formed at the head thereof, said fine slots containing small cylindrical magnets and springs which urge the magnets in the direction of the head thereof, said wheel lock external sleeve also having an arcuate groove on the head thereof for containing a rotor pushing spring, and further having a latch engagement groove at one side of the rotor receiving part for holding said latch therein;
- said rotor having engagement holes, into each of which said small cylindrical magnets are engaged so as to integrate said wheel lock external sleeve and the rotor with each other, said rotor also having an arcuate projection along the periphery of the head of the rotor that fits into the arcuate groove formed on the head of said wheel lock external sleeve, wherein said rotor further includes a tapered groove into which said latch is partially engaged and fitted;
- said wheel nut having a flange throughout the rimmed head part thereof which is engageable with said latch for locking said wheel lock external sleeve to the nut.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.