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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7293794 | Cover attachment An airbag assembly includes a module with a base plate, an airbag, and a housing for the airbag; and a cover removably attached to the module. The cover can be attached to the housing or base plate without fasteners. An outward extending locking piece is configured ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7287819 | Vehicle wheel and adapter A vehicle wheel adapter system for mounting different wheel hubs with protruding lugs, while allowing for quick assembly and disassembly can comprise a rim having a periphery for supporting a tire, a web plate for mounting on the opposed side of the rim, a plurality... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7258403 | Demountable tire rim with a spare inner wheel and tire for said tire rim The present invention is related to a demountable tire rim assembly having a spare inner wheel which permits running during the run flat condition. The demountable tire rim includes two complementary annular parts provided with reciprocal threaded coupling members o... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7111909 | Drum and wheel centering sleeve, kit and method A drum and wheel-centering sleeve disclosed for vehicle drum and wheels having apertures of uniform diameter is a set of three that are threaded on three circumferentially spaced hub bolts on which a wheel drum is mounted to center the wheel drum. The sleeve has a h... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7019250 | Quick change device for mounting an actuator to a resistance welding gun A quick change device has a mounting member for mounting an actuator to a resistance welding gun by headed fasteners. The mounting member has several keyhole type apertures arranged in a circle. The fasteners extend through the narrow portions of the keyhole type ap... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6965304 | Tire information obtaining device, method for obtaining tire information and tire information obtaining program A vehicle wheel speed is calculated based on a vehicle wheel speed signal outputted from a vehicle wheel speed sensor and a change width w which is an amplitude of a time change component of the calculated vehicle wheel speed. When the calculated change width w is e... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6932436 | Hydraulic wheel system A hydraulic wheel system is provided which comprises a disc, a first piston, a wheel, a tire, a dismount button, and a wheel mounting member. The disc is provided with a first cylinder and a second cylinder communicating with each other. The first piston is slidably... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6921138 | Multi-piece vehicle wheel assembly A multi-piece vehicle wheel assembly includes a wheel center and a lightweight wheel rim. The wheel center defines a center hole and has an outer margin. The wheel rim has opposing inside and outside major surfaces. The outside major surface defines a rim bed for mo... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6886616 | Wheel structure A wheel structure for vehicles, capable of reducing a columnar resonance sound occurring in a wheel during a travel of a vehicle. A cross-sectional shape of a closed space defined by a wheel and a tire is varied in the circumferential direction so that a columnar re... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6863357 | Tracked vehicles, and endless tracks and wheels therefore A wheel assembly comprises a tire supported by an underlying wheel. The tire has inner and outer surfaces, first and second side surfaces, and first and second recesses. Cables are in the tire proximate the inner surface. The wheel has inner and outer flanges, and a... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6626502 | Wheel adaptor plate system A wheel adaptor plate system for permitting mounting of a wheel rim onto a hub having a different lug bolt pattern. The wheel adaptor plate system includes a plate member comprising a plurality of mounting apertures extending through the plate member. The... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6032768 | Arrangement of a brake disc on a wheel hub A method for changing a brake disk of a disk brake, wherein the brake disk includes a friction ring and a brake disk hub for connecting the brake disk to a wheel hub that is rotatably connected to a steering knuckle and has a wheel flange for detachably c... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5431485 | Center lock device for automobile wheels The invention is intended to improve the durability and stability of the attaching state in automobile wheels. For fixing a wheel disk to the hub of an axle through a top hat type or cylinder hat type adapter, the relatively thin center shaft portion proj... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5362134 | Motor-vehicle wheel Wheel structure for mounting a tire to a hub-supporting drum of a motor vehicle includes a wheel, a spacer flange interposed between a hub of the wheel and the hub-supporting drum of the motor vehicle, and an adapting flange by which the hub of the wheel ... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5211448 | Center lock device for automobile wheels The invention provides a center lock device for automobile wheels wherein a center shaft portion integrally projects forwardly from the conical barrel of an adapter in the form of a top type or cylinder hat type, and a center nut is threadedly engaged wit... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5197785 | Two piece adapter rim for wheel assemblies A two piece adapter rim for wheel assemblies comprises a band formed generally into a circle having inner and outer surfaces wherein the outer surface is for carrying a rubber tire. The assembly includes additionally an outer disc mounted within the band ... | 03/30/1993 |
| 4989657 | Modular vehicle wheel A two-piece modular automotive wheel includes a rear section having a relatively thick center portion and a thinner rim portion. The rear section is produced by a spin forging process to achieve the desired thickness at various locations. A registration s... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4426116 | Tire rim and spoke arrangement to discourage tire theft A rim supporting a tire thereon has facing projecting portions along a mounting rim thereon and one of these portions has a recess fitting a raised portion on an outer peripheral face of one of a plurality of spokes on a spoke assembly on which the rim is... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4159832 | Centerline two piece wheel and brake assembly A dirigible wheel of an automotive vehicle has its steering axis on the vertical center line of the wheel, and a brake disc is supported with annular braking surfaces in vertical planes adjacent to the center line and are engaged by caliper type brake sho... | 07/03/1979 |
| 3953075 | Auxiliary wheel mounting A mounting for auxiliary wheel of a vehicle in which the auxiliary rim has an annular mounting ring secured thereto, the ring having an inturned flange at one edge which is bolted to the regular wheel. In the preferred embodiment an extension ring on the ... | 04/27/1976 |