Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Laura Imelda Luengo Herrero

Brenna Liu

Neal Koenig

Gerardo Alejandro Perez Rojo

Alexia Cassandra De Anda Martinez

Luis Felipe Sanchez Curiel Nyssen

A spare wheel assembly includes a spare-wheel cap having a core, and raised fins radially extending from the core toward a perimeter of the cap to form a cross and configured to provide gripping portions for rotating the cap. The spare wheel assembly further includes an ornament-removal tool having a handle and a longitudinal member extending therefrom. Some of the fins define recesses configured to receive and retain the handle and member to removably secure the tool to the cap.

Spare wheel assembly for a vehicle

A center cap is provided for a motor vehicle wheel. That center cap includes a disc-shaped body having a plurality of radially arrayed mounting projections for engaging in a plurality of cooperating slots in the wheel. Further, a motor vehicle wheel is provided. That motor vehicle wheel includes a body incorporating a wheel hub having a central opening defined within a boundary wall and a center cap received and held in the central opening. The center cap includes a plurality of radially arrayed mounting projections while the body includes a matching plurality of slots and tapering channels sized and shaped to receive the plurality of radially arrayed mounting projections.

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Southfield, MI, United States of America

Laura Imelda Luengo Herrero