VEHICLE WHEEL Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: transport engineering; road vehicles. SUBSTANCE: vehicle has rim with front and rear flanges, central hub part with side surface, other then cylindrical, and spokes connecting rim with hub. Thickness of spokes increases towards hub. Side surfaces of hubs are made to arcs of circumference with center outside wheel on surface whose generatrix passes through points located on wheel rim at distance equal to 0.4-0.6 of minimum thickness of spoke at both sides from its axis and square to axis. EFFECT: enhanced design, decreased mass of wheel. 3 dwg