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US 6,238,006 B1Granted
Vehicle wheel having a balance weight retention shoulder
AssigneeHayes Lemmerz International, Inc.
InventorDenny Manojlovic
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Abstract
A circumferential retention shoulder formed in a surface of a vehicle wheel rim cooperates with a wheel balance weight barb to retain the wheel balance weight upon the vehicle wheel.
Claims11
A vehicle wheel comprising:
- an annular wheel rim having an outboard tire bead retaining flange, said flange having a lip extending axially from an outboard edge thereof, said lip having an annular portion that extends in an outward radial direction to form a circumferential balance weight retention shoulder upon an inboard surface of said tire bead retaining flange;
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- a circular wheel disc formed across said wheel rim, said wheel disc adapted to be attached to a vehicle.
A balanced vehicle wheel comprising:
- an annular wheel rim having an outboard tire bead retaining flange, said flange having a lip extending axially from an outboard edge thereof, said lip having an annular portion that extends in an outward radial direction to form a circumferential balance weight retention shoulder upon an inboard surface of said tire bead retaining flange;
- a circular wheel disc formed across said wheel rim, said wheel disc adapted to be attached to a vehicle;
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- a wheel balance weight, said balance weight including a retaining clip which extends over the tire bead retaining flange, said clip including a member extending therefrom and against said retention shoulder, said member cooperating with said retention shoulder to secure said wheel balance weight to said wheel rim whereby said wheel is balanced.
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A vehicle wheel comprising:
- an annular wheel rim having an outboard tire bead retaining flange, said outboard tire bead retaining flange including an axially outward extending lip formed upon the circumference thereof, said outboard tire bead retaining flange including an inboard surface, said inboard flange surface being connected to said retention shoulder by a transition surface, said transition surface cooperating with said retention shoulder to define a retention recess in said lip, both of said retention and transition surfaces having an arcuate shape with said transition surface forming a compound curve including at least two radii with said radii increasing in magnitude from said retention shoulder to said wheel rim inboard surface;
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- a circular wheel disc formed across said wheel rim, said wheel disc adapted to be attached to a vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.