Patent ID: 6234581
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: B60B

Abstract:
A wheel for a motor vehicle having a rim spider with air openings and a rim well connected with the rim spider, the wheel including a rim well shell part forming the rim well and a rim spider shell part forming the rim spider, the shell parts providing interior and exterior walls of the wheel which are connected with one another to define an internal cavity and radially extending hollow spokes separated by air openings, radially inward ends of the air openings forming a contact circle, the wheel further including a plurality of receiving devices for mounting bolts provided between respective adjacent ones of the air openings around a hub of the wheel,wherein the receiving devices are arranged in a circle with each situated in a transverse center plane of one of the hollow spokes at a distance radially inwardly from the contact circle of the air openings, the air openings being constructed in an approximately triangular shape with rounded corners and arranged to point towards the wheel hub between adjacent receiving devices,wherein the receiving devices are formed at end regions of the hollow spokes in the rim spider shell part,wherein the wheel hub has a sleeve and the rim well shell part has an interior ring, andwherein the receiving devices are connected with the sleeve of the wheel hub, the sleeve being fitted to the interior ring of the rim well shell part.