Reinforcement Attached To Disc Patents (Class 301/63.108)
  • Patent number: 9511623
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel disk and a manufacturing method thereof is provided. The vehicle wheel disk is manufactured from a disk material of a flat plate. The vehicle wheel disk includes a hub coupling portion, a disk flange and a hat. The hat includes a hat top protruding outwardly in an axial direction of the disk, a radially inner hat portion connecting the hat top and the hub coupling portion, and a radially outer hat portion connecting the hat top and the disk flange. In the vehicle wheel disk, a first thickness-reduced portion is smaller in thickness than the disk material that is formed at the radially outer hat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TOPY KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kishiro Abe, Ryo Nishibayashi, Takamitsu Takano, Kazunari Sano, Yuta Isomura
  • Patent number: 9132694
    Abstract: A tire/wheel assembly includes a wheel having an attaching portion for attaching the wheel to a vehicle and a pneumatic tire that is fit on a periphery of the wheel. The pneumatic tire includes a plurality of tire protrusions and/or a plurality of tire recesses of a tire side portion that constitutes a vehicle outer side, and the wheel includes a plurality of wheel recesses in a surface that constitutes the vehicle outer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: The Yokohama Rubber Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Masataka Kubota, Masatoshi Kuwajima
  • Patent number: 8038224
    Abstract: A motor-vehicle wheel structure comprises a wheel rim and a wheel disk having a circumferential border bent and welded within the rim, and a central portion bearing a circumferential series of holes for engagement of bolts for fixing the wheel to the wheel support. The central portion is connected to the circumferential border of the disk by an intermediate annular portion having in cross section an arched configuration projecting outwards. Welded on the outer face of the wheel disk is an auxiliary disk having a substantially plane conformation, the outer border of which is welded to the main disk substantially in a position corresponding to the apex of the aforesaid projecting annular portion. The auxiliary disk integrates tubular columns that project from the inner face of the auxiliary disk and have their ends welded to the central portion of the main disk so that they are co-axial to the holes for the fixing bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: C.R.F. SocietĂ  Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Marcello Trentin, Davide Vigé, Benedetta Peyron, Giovanni Boreanaz, Giovanni Monfrino
  • Patent number: 6991297
    Abstract: A two-piece-wise built-up light-alloy wheel with a rather big diameter for automobiles and two-wheeled vehicles, being aimed to be made as lightweight and have an improved ornamental appearance, comprising: a rim (2) having outer and inner rim portions integrally formed with each other; a center disk (1) built-up with the integral rim (2); fastener bolts fastening the rim with the center disk; and a plurality of thick-wall portions (9) bulging from and integrally formed with the outer rim portion as bulging toward center of the wheel, as to form screw holes for the fastener bolts. Thickness of the rim (2) is substantially same except for the thick-wall portions, throughout from a bead seat (6) on the outer rim portion through a well part (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Washi Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsunori Yoshimura
  • Publication number: 20050006945
    Abstract: Wheel disc, comprising a radially outer circular mounting part, a radially inner fixing and centering part with a bearing region comprising a specified number of fixing apertures and ending radially inwardly with a centering vent, and arms connecting the inner and outer parts, each arm being disposed substantially circumferentially between two adjacent fixing apertures and the radially inner free edges of the radially outer circular part defining perforations with the free lateral edges of the arms, wherein in order to mechanically reinforce each arm the central region of each arm is deformed in order to house a swelling receding axially outwardly relative to the lateral regions of the disc arms, including a yoke opening into the centering vent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Applicant: MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Denis Alff, Wolfgang Kruchten
  • Patent number: 6726291
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel comprises a rim and a disk, the disk presenting a generally flat center zone of attachment of the disk to the vehicle, a zone of connection of the disk and the rim and an intermediate zone. The intermediate zone of the disk includes a given angular sector, or two diametrically opposite angular sectors, stiffened against axial bending relative to any other angular sector of the same central angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Michelin Recherche et Technique S.A.
    Inventors: Alain Vaxelaire, Denis Alff, Etienne Renard