Patent ID: 8657386
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: B60B,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A vehicle wheel comprising a heat-insulation rubber that covers a portion of a rim outer circumference surface where air in a tire air chamber contacts, wherein the heat insulating rubber is disposed centrally along the rim outer circumference surface and spaced apart in a rim width direction from a bead seating portion of the rim outer circumference surface disposed on each side thereof, the heat insulating rubber is U-shaped in cross-section with a base portion and a substantially perpendicular side portion disposed on each end of the base portion, the heat insulating rubber disposed against the outer surface of a well portion of the rim, the side portions of the heat insulating rubber have a part whose thickness gradually decreases as a location at the part goes toward an end part of each side portion of the heat-insulation rubber, the end part of each side portion of the heat-insulation rubber extends up to abut a base of a hump portion on the rim outer circumference surface, and the hump portion is disposed between the bead seating portion and the end part of the heat-insulation rubber.