Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Plamac Co., Ltd.

Yasuo Noji

Kenji Abe

Noriyoshi Matsui

Makoto Nitta

Toshiyuki Tetsuda

Tomohiko Takeda

Yuta Karashima

Satoru Tsurubuchi

Masanobu Mizui

Masatsugu Sasagawa

Tomoaki Kume

Yasuhiro Kuraoka

Hiromichi Yamazaki

A wheel cover includes: a cover body having an engagement hole and configured to cover a design face of a wheel; and a cover fastener that is inserted through the engagement hole. A primary attachment member of the cover fastener includes: a supporter that supports a periphery of the engagement hole; a cylindrical portion that is inserted in a hub hole formed in the wheel; a coupler that couples the supporter and the cylindrical portion; and a hook extending from the cylindrical portion to an outer circumferential side of the cylindrical portion, the hook being contactable with an inner circumferential portion of the hub hole at a position spaced apart from an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion. A secondary attachment member of the cover fastener has an insertion portion that is inserted in a space formed between the hook and the outer circumferential surface.

Wheel cover

When removing a wheel cover from a wheel, force in an inner peripheral direction is applied to one end portion of an engaging member. The engaging member pivots (including elastically deforms) about the other end portion, such that an engaging protruding portion pivots and comes away from an engagable protruding portion. As a result, a center attaching portion is able to be removed from an ornament receiving hole, thus enabling the wheel cover to be removed from the wheel.

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Toyota, Japan

Yasuo Noji