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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1998
Gerhard Wernick, Neuzeug, AT;
Steyr-Daimler-Puch Aktiengesellschaft, Vienna, AT;
Abstract
A wheel carrier for the steered wheel of a motor vehicle with a tire-inflating system, the wheel carrier comprising a shield with an eye at the top and bottom for receiving a kingpin, an axle tube which supports wheel bearings, a wheel hub supported on the wheel bearings, a steering arm, an air duct leading through the wheel carrier into a chamber formed between the axle tube and wheel hub, the chamber being sealed off on both sides, wherein the steering arm is flanged to a sprue with a fitting surface, wherein an air chamber is formed in the fitting surface, and is connected to the chamber by an air duct and is further connected to a tube communicating to the outside of the sprue.