Patent ID: 8123303

Claim:
An automobile wheel, comprising: a wheel rim having a substantially cylindrical shape and two opening edges; a back-side flange disposed on one opening edge of the wheel rim; a surface-side bead seat disposed on another opening edge of the wheel rim; and a wheel disk that has a surface-side flange formed from an outer circumferential edge of the wheel disk, wherein the outer circumferential edge of the wheel disk is bent in a curved shape to the back side of the wheel disk so that the surface-side flange of the wheel disk includes: a surface-side annular circumferential portion on an aesthetic surface; and a back-side annular circumferential portion formed continuously with, and on the back side of, the surface-side annular circumferential portion, and the back-side annular circumferential portion has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the surface-side annular circumferential portion, and wherein an inner circumferential end of the back-side annular circumferential portion of the surface-side flange and an opening end of the surface-side bead seat are welded together along a circumferential direction.