Patent ID: 8950824
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: B60B,F16B

Abstract:
1. A retainer for a vehicle having an axle with a rotational axis, a wheel, and an axle nut configured to fasten to the axle of the vehicle, the axle nut having a keyed shape, the retainer comprising a plate having a keyed axle nut-receiving portion and a radially outward portion spaced apart from the axle nut-receiving portion in a direction perpendicular from the rotation axis of the axle, wherein: the radially outward portion is non-rotatably coupled to and frictionally engaged with the wheel to prevent the plate from rotating relative to the wheel, the axle nut is positioned within the keyed nut-receiving portion, and wherein the axle nut and the keyed axle nut-receiving portion of the plate are non-rotatably coupled together to inhibit rotation of the axle nut relative to the axle.