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US Patent Application 20100052413 - Vehicle Wheel and Method for Manufacturing It

Application 20100052413 Filed on November 20, 2007. Published on March 4, 2010

Inventors

US Classes

301/65, Of cast metal29/894.321Assembling wheel disc to rim and hub

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Foreign Documents

  • 10 2006 055 704.2 DE 11/23/2006

International Classes

B60B 3/04
B23P 17/00

Issued Patent Number:

8042879


Abstract text


The invention relates to a vehicle wheel, in particular a hybrid vehicle wheel, composed of a wheel disc, which is fabricated from lightweight metal as a cast part, and a rim ring, which is made from steel, is connected to the wheel disc in a rotationally fixed fashion and has at least one rim horn and a drop base edge, and a method for manufacturing such a hybrid vehicle wheel. In order to be able to manufacture the hybrid vehicle wheel at low cost and to ensure sufficient force flow between the rim ring and the wheel disc, the wheel disc has, on the disc edge, a contour which is matched to the profile of the rim horn and drop base edge and extends over the distance between them and on which the rim ring bears in the mounted state of the wheel disc and rim ring while clamping the wheel disc between a first pressure zone on the drop base edge and a second pressure zone on the rim horn. Fitting is carried out by folding over or rolling over a rim ring blank onto the edge of the disc.

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