Patent ID: 6463976
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: B60C,Y10T

Abstract:
A vehicle wheel comprising:a wheel rim; a pneumatic tire comprising a tread and first and second side walls, wherein each of the first and second side walls comprise a bead having a bead core; an emergency running support body comprising an emergency running surface and first and second axial outer wall sections; the emergency running support body further comprising a shell-shaped ring body adapted to be disposed within the tire and to support the tire in case of damage, a first ring-shaped supporting element, and a second ring-shaped supporting element, whereby the first axial outer wall section is supported on the wheel rim via the first ring-shaped supporting element and the second axial outer wall section is supported on the wheel rim via the second ring-shaped supporting element, wherein the shell-shaped ring body is one of removably connected and removably attached to one of the first ring-shaped support element and the second ring-shaped support element, and wherein one of the first ring-shaped supporting element and the second ring-shaped supporting elements is one of elastically deformable and swivelable in an axial direction.