Vehicle wheel with emergency running support body

US6463976B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Continental AG · DE

Inventors

• Michael Glinz · Neustadt, DE
• Hans-Bernd Hellweg · Seelze, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 20, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 15, 2002
• Expiry date: Jun 20, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T152/10522
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle wheel including a wheel rim, a pneumatic tire comprising a tread and first and second side walls, wherein each of the first and second side walls comprise a bead having a bead core, an emergency running support body including an emergency running surface and first and second axial outer wall sections, the emergency running support body further comprising the shell-shaped ring body adapted to be disposed within the tire and to support the tire in case of damage, a first ring-shaped supporting element, and a second ring-shaped supporting element, whereby the first axial outer wall section is supported on the wheel rim via the first ring-shaped supporting element and the second axial outer wall section is supported on the wheel rim via the second ring-shaped supporting element, wherein the shell-shaped ring body is one of removably connected and removably attached to one of the first ring-shaped support element and the second ring-shaped support element, and wherein one of the first ring-shaped supporting element and the second ring-shaped supporting elements is one of elastically deformable and swivelable in an axial direction.