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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7144089 | Spoked wheel for a bicycle and method for its manufacture A spoked wheel comprised of a hub and a rim connected by first and second sets of spokes, each set having a plurality of radial spokes and a plurality of non-radial spokes. ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7111911 | Wheel hub A wheel hub, especially a wheel hub for commercial vehicles, for receiving a brake disk, in which a neck section which is formed on the wheel flange for receiving the brake disk, the neck section being provided with a surface structure, preferably ribs, which increa... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7044567 | Elastic endless crawler An elastic endless crawler including an annular belt-shaped elastic crawler body, the crawler body includes a series of driven elements for operation of the crawler and a reference plane which passes through respective centers of the drive elements and extends in a ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7040365 | Band device for a wheel rim An assembly (10) for location around a wheel rim (32) includes an annular support band (12) being formed of a relatively inextensible material. The support band (12) is split at at least one circumferential location to define a pair of op... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7036891 | Retainer of a mark capable of retaining the mark on a rotating wheel without rotating with the wheel A non-rotating wheel cover is disclosed. The wheel cover can be mounted on an outer side of a wheel. The wheel cover comprises a retaining plate having a bearing at a center thereof; a periphery of the retaining plate being installed with a plurality of notches to n... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036893 | Rubber crawler and its manufacture method The object of the invention is to provide a rubber crawler which has an excellent driving performance without rubber breakage and a process for manufacturing the same. The object is attained by firstly obtaining a small bending rigidity of a joint part and eliminati... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7025426 | Sound dampening adhesive patterns for vehicle wheel assemblies Wheel assemblies that include decorative wheel covers which are bonded to wheels by sound dampening adhesive patterns that include primary adhesive patterns that are sufficient to secure the wheel covers to the wheels and an auxiliary adhesive patterns that include ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025428 | Axle for vehicles, in particular commercial vehicles For an axle for vehicles, e.g., commercial vehicles, with a rigid axle body, axle guidance and/or axle support is provided, making it possible to adapt to different transverse distances in the axle guidance or axle support which are predetermined on the body side. | 04/11/2006 |
| 7014273 | Spoked wheel spinner with non-rotating cap A spoked wheel spinner (20) that is used on an automotive wheel (22) that includes an adapter plate (24) that is mounted onto the automotive wheel (22) with a spinner bearing (26) retained within the adapter plate. A spinner shaft ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6997519 | Coated center disk wheel for a motor vehicle A coated center disk wheel produced from sheet metal for a motor vehicle, which has a wheel-center disk (1) provided with a plurality of connecting eyes (3) which are distributed over a hole circle (2) and have in each case a through-hole (4 | 02/14/2006 |
| 6994136 | Wheel end tire air pump A wheel end assembly includes a self-contained air pump mechanism that maintains tire pressure at a desired level. The pump mechanism includes a piston and cylinder assembly that rotate with the tire. A linkage assembly drives the piston within the cylinder as the w... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6991300 | Optimum compaction low void composite bicycle wheel rim A fiber reinforced plastic bicycle wheel rim having an aerodynamic section is formed of two mating halves, without additional structural reinforcing members, using laminations of layers of unidirectional fibers crossing one another and having semicircular layers of ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6983999 | Cover assembly for a wheel hub A cover assembly is provided for a wheel hub, which includes a coupler and a cap. The coupler has a forward segment with a coupler forward opening and a coupler rearward segment with a coupler rearward opening. The cap has a cap opening, a cap barrel, and a cap end ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6983780 | Run-flat tire and tire/wheel assembly The present inventions are a run-flat tire and a tire/wheel assembly in which the workability of the tire-to-rim fit has been improved while including a core-type run-flat support member. The tire/wheel assembly is formed by fitting a pneumatic tire into a wheel rim... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6976742 | Drive sprocket for a tracked vehicle A snowmobile is propelled by an endless track that is operatively connected to the snowmobile's engine by two drive sprockets. Each drive sprocket includes one set of external teeth and two sets of internal teeth that engage three corresponding sets of track teeth f... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6971675 | Quick release steering wheel system and method A quick release steering wheel system and method involves use of a billet hub adapter that has tapped holes for attachment of an OEM steering wheel that uses a non-standard bolt-pattern. The billet hub adapter includes an upper recess to provide space for the center... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6971722 | Low cost truck or like hubcaps The hub cap has first end wall portion, a sidewall portion and a laterally extending mounting flange. There are plural fastener-receiving openings in the flange. A second endwall portion is integrally formed on the flange and is free from engagement with the hold-do... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6969124 | Center cap for vehicle wheel A wheel center cap for a vehicle wheel includes a substantially planar body portion, and a plurality of flexibly resilient fingers extending substantially orthogonal to the body portion and adapted to be received within a central aperture of a wheel. Each finger inc... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6964462 | Rubber crawler A rubber crawler includes parallel embedded tensile strength bodies, with each of tensile strength bodies being connected by butt portions. The butt portions of adjacent tensile strength bodies are longitudinally shifted relative to one another in a circumferential ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6959746 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire including a carcass, a belt arranged at the outside of the carcass in a radial direction and having at least two belt layers, at least one belt reinforcing layer arranged so as to overlap with the belt and extend over a widthwise outer end thereof, ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6953226 | Wheel ornamentation assembly A wheel ornamentation assembly is provided for attachment to a wheel secured to a wheel hub with a plurality of lug nuts. The wheel ornamentation assembly includes a wheel ornamentation body having an outboard surface and an inboard surface. The wheel ornamentation ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6948781 | Balance weight assembly The present invention relates to a balance weight assembly for a vehicle wheel, including a portion designed to attach and fix the balance weight to the flange edge of a wheel rim and a portion designed to retain a weight made from a high-density material, such as t... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6948784 | Track pin bushing having a metallurgically bonded coating A track pin bushing for cooperating with a track pin in an endless track has a tubular body with a metallurgically bonded wear-resistant coating and a method for forming such a coated track pin bushing is taught herein. The tubular body, formed of an iron-based allo... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6945294 | Crown reinforcement for an off-the-road tire Tire for heavy off-the-road vehicles including a radial carcass reinforcement anchored in each bead to an annular bead reinforcement element, and radially above it a crown reinforcement consisting of at least two working crown plies of inextensible metallic cables c... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6942305 | Elastic crawler An elastic crawler having a crawler body formed of a rubber elastic material into an endless belt so that rollers rotatively move on right and left side regions in an inner surface of the crawler body is provided with a reinforcement rising in a thickness direction ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6938964 | Wheel A journal for coupling a wheel to an axle is configured to be mounted in a bore of the wheel. The journal defines a reception space for receiving an axle. A locking element is pivotally mounted on the journal from a release position in which the axle is removable fr... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6938963 | Venting plug for vehicle hub cap A hub cap vent plug which is resistant to penetration by water sprayed under high pressure during vehicle washing. The plug includes an axially outer end face portion, sidewall portions adapted to mate in fluid-tight relation with an opening in an associated hub cap... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6935708 | Track for all terrain vehicle A track for a vehicle travelling on all terrain, especially those displaying ruts, is formed of an endless longitudinal body displaying a series of longitudinally spaced drive lugs on its inner surface and a series of longitudinally spaced profiles on its outer surf... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6935005 | Installation of, a hub/bearing assembly for an automotive vehicle A tool facilitates the installation of a hub/bearing assembly on a CV joint during the assembly of an automotive vehicle. The hub/bearing assembly has a housing, a hub provided with a spindle that projects into the housing, and a bearing between the spindle and hous... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6932434 | Extensional hubcap docking structure An extensional hubcap docking structure. The structure includes anchoring mounts positioned on the back surface of a hubcap. Clip components are coupled onto the anchoring mounts, and elastic components are situated between each hubcap anchoring mount and clip compo... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6929334 | Caterpillar track tension management A management system is disclosed for controlling the tension of an endless track by regulating the hydraulic pressure in a hydraulic jack acting on a roller serving to tension the track. The tension management system comprises two accumulators of different capacity ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6915825 | Self-tensioning tire cable chain system A tire cable chain system is disclosed. The tire cable chain system includes a continuous and unbroken outboard annular holder; a tensioning cable adapted to form at least one tensioning cross member and a continuous and unbroken inboard annular holder disposed in p... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6913323 | Wheel having spokes with V-shaped cross-sections A wheel for a motor vehicle has a wheel hub connected with a wheel rim by spokes. In order to create a wheel for a motor vehicle which has low weight and high stability, spokes arranged between the wheel hub and the rim are constructed such that, in first areas conn... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6910742 | Wheel A journal for coupling a wheel to an axle has a main tubular body portion with a reception space for the axle and a separate locking element. The locking element is mounted in a cradle for pivotal movement about a pivot axis from a release position in which the axle... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6910743 | Stable wheel assembly A stable wheel assembly has wheels, a connector, a wheel stand with a bracket and a resilient body. Each wheel has a center. The connector has two spindles and two protrusions. Each protrusion has a free end and an upright step integrally formed with the free end of... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6899401 | Vehicle wheel including spoke attachment The vehicle wheel includes an outer rim hoop with means for holding a tire, a plurality of spoke portions, and a central hub assembly. The central hub assembly includes an axle assembly and a hub shell that is rotatable about the axle. The hub shell includes at leas... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6896334 | Wheel mounted decorative member A mounting assembly for a movable decorative member to be mounted on a rotatable wheel hub including a weighted mass having a mounting portion carrying a ball bearing disposed on a boss provided on a securement cap stud. The stud includes a threaded shaft engageable... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6892777 | Rim with seats inclined outwards and assemblies comprising such a rim and an inflated bearing support Mounting rim designed to form a rolling assembly with a tire and an inflatable and inflated tread bearing support, and comprising on each side of the equatorial plane a rim seat inclined outwards and extended axially outwards by a projection or hump, characterized i... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6889549 | Assembling method of tire and wheel rim A phase θc of a correction unbalance found by the following formula (1) is determined by using a Radial Runout (RRO) value Wr1 in a primary component of the RRO of the wheel rim, a phase θr1 (unit: °) of a peak position thereof, an unbalance level W... | 05/10/2005 |
