Wheel made of fiber composites and process for the manufacture thereof

US9616704B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Jens Werner · Coswig, DE
• Christian Kohler · Dresden, DE
• André Bartsch · Dresden, DE
• Sandro Mäke · Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel, DE
• Michael Dre;ler · Dresden, DE
• Martin Lepper · Dresden, DE
• Werner Hufenbach · Dresden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 3, 2012
• Grant date: Apr 11, 2017
• Expiry date: Dec 3, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60B2900/111
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A one-part wheel which is made of fiber composites without interruption of fibers with excellent mechanical properties and with low weight at the same time as well as a process for the manufacture thereof. The wheel has especially a rim well as well as a wheel disk passing over into a wheel flange of the rim well, where the wheel disk is formed at least partly by fiber layers, which run from the rim well over a wheel flange and the wheel disk. The wheel is manufactured by a multipart mold with parts displaceable at least in the axial direction. The mold is completely removed after the deposition of fibers or remains as a lost core in the wheel.