Device designed to prevent a tire fitted onto a one-piece wheel rim from rolling off its rim, process for manufacturing this device and fitted assembly incorporating it
US7469732B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 28, 2005 |
| Grant date | Dec 30, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 27, 2026 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB60B21/12
- WIPO fieldTransport
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A device is fitted into a well of a one-piece wheel rim so as to prevent a tire fitted onto the rim from rolling off this rim. A process for manufacturing this device is disclosed as is a fitted assembly for a motor vehicle comprising the rim, the cover and the device. The device has a belt having two ends and a catching blocks for connecting the ends together, which is intended to clamp the belt of annular shape around the rim well, and this device is such that the belt includes a plurality of filling elements, spaced apart between the ends, which elements are designed to at least partly fill the well and are connected together via at least one flexible linking element intended to form an annular sector around the well.
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