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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7631946 | Method for manufacturing a wheel including centering a wheel rim on a wheel disc, and a wheel produced by the method The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a wheel, particularly for use on automotive vehicles. The wheel has a wheel rim and a wheel disc connectable to each other. The method includes shaping the wheel disc, shaping the wheel rim, manufacturing the wheel ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7346984 | Light metal wheel A wheel, particularly a light metal wheel, for motor vehicles, essentially consists of a spoke wheel center (20) and a rim (10). In order to reduce weight and increase the bending strength, which is of great significance in regard to contact with curbs... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347505 | Full flat wheel A vehicle wheel assembly includes a wheel disc and a rim that are welded together. The wheel disc includes a full face disc portion with a disc lip extending in an inboard direction. The rim includes a main rim body with a rim lip that extends in an outboard directi... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7290838 | Vehicle wheel A vehicle wheel comprises a rim (172) and a disk section (171) separate from the rim. Since the disk section is separate from the rim, the freedom of designing the disk section is improved. The rim comprises an outer rim (178) and an inner rim (... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7270382 | Wheel with increased interior lip depth Disclosed are various embodiments of one-piece, and multi-piece wheels configured to provide increased interior lip depth. In one embodiment, an outer periphery of a curved center portion of a wheel is attached to a wheel barrel in an inboard region, and a portion o... | 09/18/2007 |
| 6931729 | Method for manufacturing a filler neck In response to the recent various requests, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing filler neck to facilitate jointing a mouthpiece and a feeding pipe which were manufactured separately into an integrated filler neck having an excellent hermeticity... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6869149 | Vehicle wheel and method of manufacturing same It is an object of the present invention to provide a vehicle wheel which can be manufactured at low cost, exhibits superior design characteristics, and with which mechanical strength can be adequately ensured. The vehicle wheel has a construction that is split into... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6769743 | Two-piece wheel A two-piece wheel is formed by joining a center part to a rim part by a friction stir welding. The weld joints are prepared so that at least a portion of a first circumferential weld joint is not parallel to at least a portion of a second circumferential weld joint.... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6641224 | Full face vehicle wheel for use in a high offset dual vehicle wheel assembly A high offset dual vehicle wheel assembly includes a pair of full face wheels (20, 20) each defining an axis and including a wheel rim and a full face wheel disc. The rim includes an inboard tire bead seat retaining flange, an inboard tire bead seat, a ge... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6447071 | Full face wheel with slip fit joint between disc and rim The present invention relates to a full face wheel comprising a full face wheel disc and a partial wheel rim. The wheel disc includes an inboard portion having an annular groove formed therein. The wheel rim includes an annular tapered outboard end. The t... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6382735 | Full face vehicle wheel and method for producing same This invention relates to a full face vehicle wheel including a wheel rim joined to a wheel disc. The disc includes a body having a wheel mounting surface and an outer annular portion which defines an outboard tire bead seat retaining flange of the wheel.... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6354667 | Full face vehicle wheel and method for producing same This invention relates to an full face vehicle wheel including a wheel rim joined to a wheel disc. The wheel disc defines an axis and includes a body having a centrally located wheel mounting surface and an outer annular portion. The outer annular portion... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6045196 | Bimetal vehicle wheel with bimetal transition insert At least one bimetal tab is disposed in a groove between a wheel disc formed from a first metal and a wheel rim formed from a second metal which is different from the first metal. The bimetal tab is formed by roll bonding a layer of the first metal to a l... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6036280 | Two piece vehicle wheel with press fit rim A partial wheel rim is press fit onto a cylindrical collar which extends axially from an inboard surface of a fall face wheel disc. The rim includes a circumferential bead which is received by a corresponding circumferential groove formed in the wheel dis... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5639147 | Variable off-set full face wheel and method and apparatus for making the same An automotive passenger vehicle full face wheel having a sheet metal disc-rim including a central bolt circle mounting portion, an intermediate portion extending generally radially outwardly therefrom and an outer peripheral portion surrounding the interm... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5634271 | Method of forming an automotive wheel An automotive wheel and a method for manufacturing, in which a center hub is formed using drawing and stamping methods, is disclosed. A mounting foot is spin forged onto the edge portion of the formed center hub, and the center hub is then polished and mo... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5613739 | Welded center wheel rim A wheel having an axis and being adapted for rotatably supporting a tire on a vehicle, includes a wheel center extending from a hub outwardly to a circumferential surface. A wheel rim disposed in contact with the circumferential surface of the wheel cente... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5509726 | Variable off-set full face wheel and method for making the same A multi-piece, non-take-apart full-face vehicle wheel assembly having a multiple-part disc in which a wheel mounting disc center part and a disc outer part are each made separately from one another. Each disc part has an annular connector flange formed re... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5431486 | Disc road wheel having gas ventilation grooves between the rim and the disc A disc road wheel on which a tire is fitted. The disc road wheel has a disc formed with an outer peripheral annular flange section which is press-fitted to the inner peripheral section of a rim. The flange section is formed at its outer peripheral surface... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5417476 | Disk wheel for automobile In order to prolong the durability of a disk wheel which is determined by a dynamic radial fatigue test, the disk wheel for an automobile comprising a rim and a disk which are drop portion-engaged with each other, has a construction such that it includes ... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5380071 | Vehicle wheel and method of manufacture of the same A multi-piece, non-take-apart vehicle wheel disc and rim assembly and method of making the same. The wheel rim has a disc mounting flange extending radially inwardly of the rim which radially overlaps the disc. The disc and rim are each finish formed prio... | 01/10/1995 |
| 5345676 | Method for producing a full face fabricated vehicle wheel An improved method for producing a full face fabricated vehicle wheel is disclosed, wherein a full face disc is formed by combining stamping and flow spinning operations. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a generally circular rim defining an... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5295304 | Method for producing a full face fabricated wheel An improved method for producing a full face fabricated wheel. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a rim defining an axis and including an axially extending well and a pair of opposed ends, one of the ends including an inboard tire bead seat r... | 03/22/1994 |
| 4880279 | Model automobile rim construction A dual wheel or rim for supporting two tires in parallel for a radio-controlled automotive vehicle having an axle with a threaded end has a unitary generally hollow cylindrical body, an interior radially-extending web across the interior of the body, the ... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4798418 | Vehicle wheel The vehicle wheel comprises a rim containing an external closed ring and an internal rim ring composed of three segments and connected to a segmentally separated or segment-shaped divided disc. The beads of the pneumatic tire lie in grooves disposed betwe... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4573338 | Method of wheel manufacture for correcting rotational non-uniformity of a pneumatic tire and wheel assembly, apparatus for performing such method and resulting wheel A method of manufacturing a disc vehicle wheel having both bolt openings and a center pilot opening in the wheel disc wherein the average axis of the wheel bead seats is eccentrically offset from both the bolt hole circle and center hole axes by an amount... | 03/04/1986 |
| 4504095 | Welded drop-center vehicle wheels A disc wheel or demountable rim assembly for a vehicle comprising an asymmetrical drop-center rim with one bead seat spaced from the well by a ledge in which the disc or an adaptor band is welded to the rim with a T-butt weld adjacent the transition betwe... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4434864 | Roof bolter vehicle and wheels therefor A roof-bolting machine of Lee-Norse Model No. TDI-43 type is equipped with wheels having rims constructed to receive significantly wider than normal, tubeless tires forced into unusually tight relationship therewith and with respective O-rings provided th... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4317597 | Wheel disc and method for manufacture thereof An improved tapered wheel disc and method of making the same which includes the steps of spin-forming a radially outwardly-tapering concave disc from a section of blanked stock and piercing hand holes in the spun-tapered disc, the improvement comprising t... | 03/02/1982 |
| 4286825 | Fabricated heavy-duty industrial wheel A drop center rim (11) of a fabricated heavy-duty industrial wheel (10) is fabricated from several pieces welded together and includes a backup ring (19) positioned within and welded to the inner periphery of a rim well (13). In some embodiments, each of ... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4164358 | Dual wheel conversion assembly for vehicles A pair of specially configured tire mounting rims are adapted for attachment to the axle hub of an existing vehicle for converting from single to dual wheel mount configurations. The wheel mounts include one dish arrangement which incorporates a substanti... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4106172 | Vehicle wheels The invention relates to a method of producing a vehicle wheel which includes two components to be friction welded together, the method comprising placing the components together so that respective surfaces thereon to be joined by friction welding are in ... | 08/15/1978 |
| 4088372 | Unitary wheel for industrial use A wheel for industrial use is constructed of five parts welded together to form a unitary piece. Specifically, the wheel includes a rim defined by a central cylindrical part having flanges welded to its opposite ends and cooperating therewith to define a ... | 05/09/1978 |
