Vehicle wheel

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9340068-B2
Application number	US-201313967516-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 15, 2013
Priority date	Aug 16, 2012
Publication date	May 17, 2016
Grant date	May 17, 2016

Abstract

A wheel, containing a rim of a plastics material and an adapter for fastening the rim to a wheel mounting, the adapter having a protuberance which engages in a recess in the rim, or the adapter being received in a receptacle of the rime, or, if multiple adapters are used, at least one adapter engaging in a recess of the rim or being enclosed by the material of the rim, where after assembly of the rim, the adapter lies with a surface area against the wheel mounting, or the rim is positioned between the wheel mounting and the adapter, where the fastening means for assembling the rim on the wheel mounting are passed through a lead-through in the adapter and the rim made of the plastics material is connected to the adapter such that no plastics material of the rim lies in the flux of force of the fastening means.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle wheel, comprising a rim of a plastics material and at least one adapter for fastening the rim to a wheel mounting, the rim comprising a rim band with a rim base adapted for receiving a tire and a rim star or a wheel disk or a wheel nave,
the at least one adapter having at least one protuberance which engages in a recess in the rim, or the adapter being received in a receptacle of the rim, or, if multiple adapters are used, at least one adapter engaging in a recess of the rim or being enclosed by the material of the rim, the adapter being arranged in such a way that, after assembly of the rim, the adapter lies with a surface area against the wheel mounting, or the adapter being arranged in such a way that the rim is positioned between the wheel mounting and the adapter, so that the adapter lies on the outside of the rim after assembly,
wherein the adapter is designed in such a way that fastenting means for assembling the rim on the wheel mounting are passed through a lead-through in the adapter and the rim made of the plastics material is connected to the adapter in such a way that no plastics material of the rim lies in the flux of force of the fastening means via the adapter to the wheel mounting,
wherein the adapter has at least one sleeve, through which a screw adapted for fastening the adapter to the wheel mounting is passed, the sleeve having an outside diameter which corresponds at least to the outside diameter of the screw head of the screw for fastening the adapter, wherein the sleeve is connected to the adapter in a non-positively or positively engaging manner.

2. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the adapter is connected to the plastics material of the rim in a non-positively engaging, positively engaging or material-bonding manner.

3. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the adapter is encapsulated by the plastics material of the rim.

4. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the adapter is pressed into the plastics material of the rim after the molding of the rim.

5. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein no sharp edges act on the plastics material in the region of the connection of the adapter to the wheel mounting.

6. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the sleeve is formed in such a way that the screw head of the screw for fastening the adapter to the wheel mounting lies against an end face of the sleeve that is opposite from the adapter.

7. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the sleeve is received in an opening in the rim, so that the adapter connected to the sleeve lies with a surface area that is facing in the direction of the sleeve against the rim and the sleeve is fixed to the rim by a nut fastened on an external thread of the sleeve.

8. The vehicle wheel according to claim 1 , wherein the adapter is given the form of a ring and is fastened to the rim by fastening means that are passed through exactly fitting openings in the rim and are connected to the adapter, the adapter additionally having lead throughs in which fastening means for the assembly of the rim on the wheel mounting are received.

9. The vehicle wheel according to claim 8 , wherein the lead-throughs are connected to a sleeve, through which the fastening means for the assembly of the rim are passed.

10. The vehicle wheel according to claim 8 , wherein the fastening means by which the adapter is fastened to the rim are bolts or sleeves which have a supporting area extending in the radial direction, the bolts or sleeves lying with the supporting surface on the side opposite from the adapter against the rim and the bolts or the sleeves being respectively connected non-releasably to the adapter.

Assignees

• Basf Se

Inventors

• Hess Heiko
• Bohrmann Gerhard
• Aschwanden Felix

Classifications

• B60B5/02

  made of synthetic material · CPC title

• B60B30/08 Primary

  the central part of the wheel body · CPC title

• B60B3/147 Primary

  using wheel adapters · CPC title