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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Daniel C Wei, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Hayes Lemmerz International, Inc., Romulus, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
301 631 ; 301 645 ;
Abstract
A vehicle wheel having a wheel rim heat shrunk onto a wheel disc and mechanically secured to the wheel disc by an interlocking segmented grooves and beads, and a method for fabricating same. A resilient material including an adhesive is disposed between the wheel disc and the wheel rim. The adhesive bonds the wheel rim to the wheel disc while the resilient material forms air-tight seal therebetween.