Land vehicles – Wheeled – Running gear
Patent
1996-07-10
1998-04-21
Rice, Kenneth R.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Running gear
100905, B62D 2100
Patent
active
057410275
ABSTRACT:
A front steer axle being for use in a motor vehicle to pivotally support a pair of transversely spaced steerable right and left wheel spindle assemblies. The front steer axle beam includes an elongated transverse beam member which is generally symmetrical about a center line. The elongated transverse beam member is formed by a transverse center section having a pair of spaced apart spring mounting pads, a pair of distal ends positioned above the transverse center section for pivotally cooperating with the wheel spindle assemblies, and a pair of S-shaped sections extending between opposed ends of the transverse center section and the spaced apart pair of distal ends. The pair of S-shaped sections have an I-shaped cross-section defined by a single pair of vertically spaced apart flanges and an interconnecting web. Each of the S-shaped sections include a pair of integral reinforcing ribs extending between the spaced apart flanges on opposite sides of the web to strengthen the S-shaped sections, and thereby resisting bending loads resulting from opposed forces exerted on each distal end and its adjacent spring mounting path.
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patent: 1888129 (1932-11-01), Hooper
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patent: 4768808 (1988-09-01), DeRees
1979 Rockwell Product Brochure.
Truck & Off-Highway Industries, Jul./Aug. 1979, p. 77.
Color photographs of prior art steer axle beam, undated.
Banks Daniel Earl
Stroh Clinton Byron
Eaton Corporation
Rice Kenneth R.
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