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US 9,878,575 B2Granted
Wheel for vehicles and method for manufacturing the same
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsSang Rak Kim, Min Jwa Seo, Yong Min Jang, Su Ji Baek
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Abstract
A wheel for vehicles may include a rim coupled to a tire, and a spoke-shaped disc including a spoke and a vent hole, the spoke-shaped disc being coupled to a side surface of the rim to support the rim, in which a coupling zone between the spoke of the spoke-shaped disc and the rim and a coupling zone between a portion of the spoke-shaped disc formed with the vent hole and the rim have a height difference in a wheel axis direction, to allow the spoke-shaped disc to support the rim at an interior and an exterior of the rim.
Claims4
A wheel for vehicles, comprising:
- a rim coupled to a tire;
- and
- a spoke-shaped disc including a spoke and a vent hole, the spoke-shaped disc being coupled to a side surface of the rim to support the rim,
- wherein a first coupling zone between the spoke of the spoke-shaped disc and the rim and a second coupling zone between a portion of the spoke-shaped disc formed with the vent hole and the rim have a height difference in a wheel axis direction, to allow the spoke-shaped disc to support the rim at an interior and an exterior of the rim, and
- wherein the first coupling zone between the spoke of the spoke-shaped disc and the rim and the second coupling zone between the portion of the spoke-shaped disc formed with the vent hole and the rim have a height difference in a radial direction of the spoke-shaped disc.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.