Joints and connections – Articulated members – Pivoted
Patent
1984-11-13
1986-10-07
Husar, Cornelius J.
Joints and connections
Articulated members
Pivoted
403133, 403140, 384203, F16B 300, F16C 1100, F16D 112
Patent
active
046156380
ABSTRACT:
The subject of the invention is a ball joint for motor vehicles with a bearing shell arranged between a joint housing and a ball head. The shell is provided at one end with elastically deformable ribs projecting from a stop surface. So that the ribs, after compensating for production tolerances, can absorb, in the elastically deformable zone, additional axial shock loads occurring in driving operation, it is proposed that the ribs be designed as square ribs, running radially, and separated by grooves from the stop surface adjoining their side walls, while the volume of each rib projecting above the stop surface, before mounting, is approximately equal to the free volume of the two grooves adjacent to it, so that the side walls of the grooves lying next to the stop surface act in the mounted condition as support walls for the elastically deformed ribs.
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Husar Cornelius J.
TRW Ehrenreich GmbH & Co. KG
Williams Todd G.
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