Wheel locking device for vehicle

• US 7,278,520 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2003
• Issued: 10/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Young-Hoon Kim
• Original Assignee: Young-Hoon Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Young-Hoon
• Primary Examiner(s): KRAMER, DEVON C
• Application Number:
  US10/535,644
• Publication Number:
  US 20060065494A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,736 Days
• Field of Search: 188/265, 188/7, 188/4.R, 188/5, 188/32, 702/26, 702/28, 702/37
• US Class Current: 188/4.00R
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/075 for wheels, hubs, or axle shafts
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/09 by restraining wheel rotation, e.g. wheel clamps
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/093 comprising ground-engaging means
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 3/00 Portable devices for preventing unwanted movement of vehicles, e.g. chocks
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5841 Rotation blocking

Abstract

Disclosed is a wheel locking device for vehicle which prevents an unauthorized movement of the vehicle. The wheel locking device for vehicles comprises a supporting disk attached to an outer side surface a wheel and provided with arms, fixtures inserted into the arms so as to surround a circumferential surface of the wheel, clamping pins for fixing the fixtures, a guard disk for surrounding an outer side surface of the supporting disk so as to cover the clamping pins, a clamping bolt for holding the guard disk and the supporting disk together, a lock for locking the clamping bolt. The wheel locking device is easily assembled and attached to the wheel, and is effectively protected from an unauthorized separation from the wheel. Further, the locations of the fixtures are adjusted according to the size of the wheel of the vehicle or the fixture has a folding-type structure easily fixed to the wheel without interfering with the frame of the vehicle, thereby being firmly secured to the wheel.

Claims

1. A wheel locking device for a vehicle, which is to be attached to a wheel of a vehicle so as to surround the wheel and lock the wheel by means of a lock so as to prevent an unauthorized movement of the vehicle, comprising:

a supporting disk provided with at least one arm being radially formed along its inner circumference and having a long hole formed through the arm;

fixtures, each including an insertion part inserted into the hole of the arm, and a clamp part formed in U-shape so as to surround an inner side surface of the wheel;

an elastic spring installed on an inner end of the arm so that said insertion of said insertion part into said hole is elastic;

clamping pins, each being inserted into a body of the supporting disk and the insertion parts of the fixtures so as to prevent the fixtures from separating from the supporting disk;

a guard disk for surrounding an outer side surface of the supporting disk so as to at least cover and protect the clamping pins inserted into the supporting disk;

a clamping bolt screwed into the guard disk and the supporting disk so as to hold the guard disk and the supporting disk together; and

locking means for preventing the loosening of the clamping bolt from the guard disk and the supporting disk.

2. A wheel locking device for a vehicle, which is to be attached to a wheel of a vehicle so as to surround the wheel and lock the wheel by means of a lock so as to prevent an unauthorized movement of the vehicle, comprising:

a supporting disk provided with at least one arm being radially formed along its inner circumference and having a long hole formed through the arm;

fixtures, each including an insertion part inserted into the hole of the arm, and a clamp part formed in U-shape so as to surround an inner side surface of the wheel, the fixtures each further including three portions rotatably connected to each other by hinges and wherein a T-type clamping pin is inserted into a through hole formed through connection areas between two adjacent ones of the three portions so that an end portion of the clamping pin is locked by using a lock so as to prevent the clamping pin from separating from the through hole;

clamping pins, each being inserted into a body of the supporting disk and the insertion parts of the fixtures so as to prevent the fixtures from separating from the supporting disk;

a guard disk for surrounding an outer side surface of the supporting disk so as to at least cover and protect the clamping pins inserted into the supporting disk;

a clamping bolt screwed into the guard disk and the supporting disk so as to hold the guard disk and the supporting disk together; and

locking means for preventing the loosening of the clamping bolt from the guard disk and the supporting disk.

3. A wheel locking system for a vehicle, comprising a pair of wheel locking devices which are to be attached respectively to front and rear wheels of a vehicle so as to surround the wheels and lock the wheels by means of a lock so as to prevent an unauthorized movement of the vehicle, each of the wheel locking devices comprising:

a supporting disk provided with at least one arm being radially formed along its inner circumference and having a long hole formed through the arm;

fixtures, each including an insertion part inserted into the hole of the arm, and a clamp part formed in U-shape so as to surround an inner side surface of the wheel;

clamping pins, each being inserted into a body of the supporting disk and the insertion parts of the fixtures so as to prevent the fixtures from separating from the supporting disk;

a guard disk for surrounding an outer side surface of the supporting disk so as to at least cover and protect the clamping pins inserted into the supporting disk;

a clamping bolt screwed into the guard disk and the supporting disk so as to hold the guard disk and the supporting disk together;

locking means for preventing the loosening of the clamping bolt from the guard disk and the supporting disk; and

wherein the wheel locking system further comprises respective metal wires attached to the respective guard disks of the respective wheel locking devices and a lock for interconnecting the metal wires and locking the metal wires together.