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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7934777 | Outboard hub barrel mounted rotor A vehicle wheel assembly includes a vehicle wheel, a disc brake rotor, and a rotatable hub in which the rotor is securely clamped to the hub independently of the clamping of the wheel to the hub providing a desirable rigid coupling of the rotor and wheel without any... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7850251 | Wheel hub and brake rotor assembly A vehicle wheel assembly has a vehicle wheel with a number of angularly spaced mounting bolt receiving apertures, a wheel hub with axially inboard and outboard surfaces and a plurality of radially outwardly protruding bosses interspersed with clearance spaces and a ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7475950 | Motorcycle wheel assembly A wheel assembly for a motorcycle provides two wheel and hub assemblies which are attached together along the outer rim of the mated and aligned hubs, providing a space between the two hubs along the axle for insertion of a brake rotor and brake mechanism within the... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7367632 | Hub assembly for disk brake of bicycle A hub assembly for a disk brake of a bicycle includes a support shaft, a hub body pivotally mounted on the support shaft and provided with two drum disks, a mounting portion protruding from one of the drum disks, a threaded section protruding from the mounting porti... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7341130 | Protective shield for a disc brake and a disc brake including such a protective shield A protective shield for a disc brake which includes a brake disc attached to a wheelshaft for a vehicle, and a brake yoke with a pair of brake supports. The protective shield is fitted close to one side of, and partly covers laterally, the brake disc. The protective... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7281769 | Two-component wheel hub A wheel hub having two separable components. The wheel hub includes a sleeve rotatably mounted to a vehicle axle. A wheel-mounting flange for mounting a wheel of the vehicle is positioned substantially around the sleeve, and a bolting lip of a brake rotor (or brake ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7278521 | Disc rotor of disc brake device for vehicle and disc brake device A disc rotor of a disc brake device for a vehicle, the disc rotor being substantially disc-shaped, is disclosed, including a flange portion with which the disc rotor is mounted on a wheel of the vehicle, and a brake portion formed coaxially with a rotational axis of... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7219778 | Exciter ring for a brake rotor Exciter rings, wheel assemblies and methods of assembling. In some aspects, a wheel assembly includes a brake rotor including a barrel section having an interior surface defining a barrel cavity, and a projection extending from the interior surface of the barrel sec... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7137487 | Brake system and suspension for use therewith A compact brake system for a wheeled vehicle fits substantially within the profile of a tire and rim to reduce wheel box width to increase cargo space between wheel boxes. In one embodiment, a caliper bracket is mounted on a spindle lever connected to a wheel spindl... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7086705 | Zinc stud insert In the trucking industry, a wheel stud having a recess at either end to accommodate a sacrificial insert of metal higher in the electromotive series of metals than the metals of the wheel stud assembly, the lug and the components joined thereby and being of sufficie... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7048341 | Bearing device for an axle A bearing device for an axle: including a hub wheel; a flange outwardly provided in an outer periphery of the hub wheel in a radial direction; and bolts having serrations provided at their heads. The flange includes through holes formed therein in its circumferentia... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7025427 | Wheel arrangement A wheel arrangement is provided which has reinforcing rings adjacent inboard and outboard tire bead seats. The outboard reinforcement ring has a radial width which is substantially greater than the radial width of the inboard reinforcement ring. ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6978866 | Wheel bearing with brake disk Wheel-bearing and brake-disk unit designed such that forces (deformations) when the rim is being screwed on largely avoid resulting axial run-out in the brake disk. The bearing flange to which the rim and pot-shaped part of the brake disk are attached has first fast... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6959789 | Wheel bearing assembly A wheel bearing assembly is provided which can suppress brake judder. A film is disposed between the brake rotor-mounting surface of the wheel mounting flange and an abutment surface of a brake rotor to fill a gap therebetween to suppress the deformation of the brak... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6921137 | Wheel-use bearing apparatus A flange face portion located radially outwardly of boltholes of a flange is formed as a tilting face so that a maximum oppositely-spaced distance α of the flange face portion from a disc rotor is preferably 10 μm. Thereby, minimization is implemented for convex d... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6880898 | Bearing unit for wheel and manufacturing method thereof A bearing unit for a wheel has a rotary ring whose raceway surface is hardened by a thermal process. In this bearing unit, the side surface of a fitting flange for fixedly joining a rotary body for braking and a wheel, is formed by working in a predetermined configu... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6880682 | Wheel support for vehicles with disk brakes A wheel support for providing a connection, rotatable about an axis (S), between a wheel of a vehicle which can be braked by a disk brake and the stub axle (6) of the vehicle comprises a bell (24) suitable for supporting a braking band (25) and ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6869151 | Knuckle-supported wheelend assembly with improved shaft-hub interface A knuckle-supported wheelend assembly includes a shaft having a contoured peripheral surface portion proximate to an outboard end featuring a minimum radius and a maximum radius, and a hub mounted on the shaft's contoured surface portion via a complementary, contour... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6808050 | Brake disk for a disk brake The invention relates to a brake disc for a rail vehicle, with which a hub body (16) and a brake ring (12) are connected to one another such that with braking procedures a thermal expansion of the brake ring (12) relative to the hub body (16 | 10/26/2004 |
| 6666303 | Wheel bearing assembly A wheel bearing assembly is provided which can suppress brake judder. A film is disposed between the brake rotor-mounting surface of the wheel mounting flange and an abutment surface of a brake rotor to fill a gap therebetween to suppress the deformation ... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6634665 | Quick release detachable wheels A quick release detachable wheel hub assembly is shown for a lightweight manual wheelchair. The wheelchair wheels mount on exterior hubs and rotate therewith. The inner face out of each of the exterior hubs mates with an opposing outer face of interior hu... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6612656 | Wheel mounting apparatus A wheel mounting apparatus includes a wheel hub flange having a wheel mounting portion to be connected to a wheel, and having a hub mounting portion to be connected to a wheel hub. Alternatively, the wheel mounting portion and the wheel hub can be formed ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6564912 | Brake disk A brake disk for disk brakes, in particular of land vehicles, has a friction ring received by a support section, formed, for example, by a portion of a wheel hub. The support section has an out-of-round outer formation on which the friction ring is seated... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6357557 | Vehicle wheel hub and brake rotor and method for producing same This invention relates to a vehicle wheel hub and brake rotor including a wheel hub portion formed from a first material and a brake rotor portion formed from a second material and joined to the wheel hub flange during an in situ casting process. The meth... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6330937 | Wheel hub and brake disc arrangement for heavy vehicles A wheel hub and brake disc device for a vehicle wheel, comprising a wheel hub journalled on an axle and having outer splines meshing with inner splines on a brake disc supported on the wheel hub. The disc is prevented from displacement in one axial direct... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6318810 | Motorcycle modular carrier ring A modular carrier ring for a motorcycle wheel hub assembly comprising a flat plate including a central flange forming a center bore therein for placement over the wheel hub, the central flange having a plurality of spaced-apart first through-holes formed ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6095617 | Integrated wheel and wheel hub assembly, particularly for a vehicle Integrated wheel and wheel hub assembly for a vehicle, including a wheel hub (3), a wheel (2), carried by the wheel hub (3), a suspension mount (5) to connect the wheel hub (3) to the vehicle body, a rolling bearing, interposed between the wheel hub (3) a... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6095291 | Bearing-and-brake-member assembly for motor vehicles, provided with an intermediate connection element between the bearing and the brake member A disc or drum brake member is usually connected to the flange of the bearing of a motor vehicle wheel; possible manufacturing errors in the flange of the bearing, and/or the brake member cause, on tightening the wheel to the flange, deformations in the b... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6076896 | Wheel hub or hub unit allowing improved mounting and removal of a brake member There is disclosed a wheel hub or hub unit of the type having a radial hub flange (13) providing connection to the wheel (40) and to a brake member (10) having an annular disc portion having a plurality of ears (11) radially protruding from its inner edge... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5772285 | Hub and rotor combination A hub and rotor combination for a vehicle wheel assembly including a hub having a central bore with an axis about which the combination is rotatable, a connector formed integrally with and extending radially outwardly from the hub substantially normal to ... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5727660 | Indented rotor and wheel assembly A wheel assembly (10) for a vehicle comprising a rotor (12) having a central portion (14) with a periphery, a wheel mounting surface (16), and a hub mounting surface (18) opposite the wheel mounting surface (16). A hub (26) and a wheel (24) are mounted to... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5024297 | Torque transmitting beam for wheel having brake torque drives An improved torque lug drive for a multidisc brake and wheel assembly having greater resistance to torque loading than earlier designs at lower weight. The torque transmitting beam is mechanically secured to the radially inner surface of the wheel rim adj... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5002163 | Friction wheel brake A friction braking mechanism for a merchandise cart or the like for holding objects includes a frame for supporting the container, and a plurality of wheels rotatably supported on the frame. The wheels are supported for rotation relative to the frame abou... | 03/26/1991 |
| 4792020 | Vehicle wheel assembly A brake disc and a wheel having circumferentially spaced mounting seats are secured by threaded studs to a radially extending flange of a hub to form a wheel assembly in which pressure-receiving portions of the wheel assembly are provided opposite the whe... | 12/20/1988 |
| 4729455 | Wheel assembly and brake therefor The invention provides a wheel assembly consisting of first and second spaced apart coaxial wheels. The wheel are mounted on a support structure such that they can rotate relative to one another. A first brake rotor is non-rotatably connected to the first... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4662482 | Brake disc assembly A brake disc assembly with fasteners for securing the disc to a wheel, together with spacers associated with the fasteners for allowing the disc limited axial play relative to the wheel, there being a holder on the disc having surfaces between which the s... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4488761 | Wheel disc brake In a combined wheel-disc assembly, the wheel disc surface is used as a brake rotor. The need for a separate disc rotor is eliminated and the assembly provides a large area for brake contact and desirable air cooling of the braking surface. Braking forces ... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4361358 | Wheel disc offset attachment to wheel rim A wheel outer body portion interfits a rim outboard hump, and insert structure on that outer body portion attaches to the rim proximate a rim annular wall between the hump and a rim well portion. Wheel brake structure is bounded by the rim, the wheel body... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4345795 | Wire wheel with disc brake clearance A wire wheel for fitting to a vehicle having a brake disc and a brake caliper extending around a portion of the edge of the disc, comprising a circular rim (10), a hubshell (15) having an inner mounting end and a smaller outer end and having an outer diam... | 08/24/1982 |
| 4330045 | Vehicle wheel mechanism A wheel mechanism is disclosed for a vehicle which has a wheel support, such as an axle, in which an electric motor is housed having a drive shaft within a hub. A wheel is journaled on bearings around the hub and an axially outboard wall cooperates with t... | 05/18/1982 |
