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US 8,770,671 B2Granted
Automotive wheel
AssigneeCentral Motor Wheel Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshiyuki Nyunoya, Shinji Yamada
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Abstract
An automotive wheel includes a wheel disc in which a hat section is provided outside a hub mounting section. A hat inner inclined surrounding section of the hat section includes an inner convex surrounding section protruding to a surface side in a curved shape, and an inner lower concave surrounding section continuously formed with an inner peripheral edge of the inner convex surrounding section, continuously formed with an outer peripheral edge of a hub surface rounded section, and protruding to the back side in a curved shape.
Claims4
An automotive wheel having a wheel disc comprising:
- a generally disc-shaped hub mounting section connected to a hub of an axle,
- a hub surface rounded section continuously formed with an outer peripheral edge of the hub mounting section and convexly curved in a back side, and
- a hat section continuously formed with an outer peripheral edge of the hub surface rounded section and protruding to a surface side, the hat section being joined with a generally cylindrical wheel rim on which a tire is mounted,
- wherein the hat section comprises:
- a hat top surrounding section protruding to the surface side in a curved shape over a circumferential direction;
- and
- a hat inner inclined surrounding section continuously formed with an inner peripheral edge of the hat top surrounding section and continuously formed with the outer peripheral edge of the hub surface rounded section, and
- wherein the hat inner inclined surrounding section comprises:
- an inner convex surrounding section protruding to the surface side in a curved shape;
- and
- an inner lower concave surrounding section continuously formed with an inner peripheral edge of the inner convex surrounding section, continuously formed with the outer peripheral edge of the hub surface rounded section, and protruding to the back side in a curved shape.
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