Wheel rim with heat dissipating fins

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12168366-B2
Application number	US-202017601597-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 17, 2020
Priority date	Jun 17, 2019
Publication date	Dec 17, 2024
Grant date	Dec 17, 2024

Abstract

A vehicle wheel having a rim part to which a tire is mounted and a vehicle body attachment part which is attached to a vehicle body, in which the rim part has, on an inner circumferential surface thereof, a plurality of fins each having a heat dissipation surface, and in which the fins are arranged periodically along a circumferential direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle wheel comprising a rim part on which a tire is mounted and a vehicle body attachment part which is attached to a vehicle body,
wherein the rim part has, on an inner circumferential surface thereof, a plurality of fins each having a heat dissipation surface,
wherein the fins are arranged periodically along a circumferential direction,
wherein the plurality of fins comprise an innermost row of fins, a middle row of fins, and an outermost row of fins;
wherein fins in the innermost row are separated from fins in the middle row in a rim width direction; and
wherein the fins in the middle row and fins in the outermost row are overlapped in the rim width direction.

2. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of fins have a constant height from the inner peripheral surface.

3. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the heat dissipation surfaces of the plurality of fins have a constant area.

4. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the number of fins per unit of an area of the inner peripheral surface is constant.

5. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein, a sum of areas of the heat dissipation surfaces of the plurality of fins is 70% or more with respect to an area of the inner peripheral surface.

6. A tire-wheel assembly comprising the vehicle wheel according to claim 1 to which a tire has been assembled.

7. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the fins extend in a direction that is perpendicular to the circumferential direction.

8. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the fins in the innermost row are 50 mm high and 100 mm wide, the fins in the middle row and in the outermost row are 50 mm high and 150 mm wide, and a vehicle on which the wheel is provided is a construction vehicle.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Kawakami Yuki

Classifications

• B60B2900/513

  Cooling, e.g. of brakes · CPC title

• B60B25/10

  Seat rings for the tyre bead part, e.g. split · CPC title

• B60B21/104

  the shape of flanges · CPC title

• Y02T10/86

  Optimisation of rolling resistance, e.g. weight reduction · CPC title

• B60B19/10 Primary

  with cooling fins · CPC title