Land vehicles – Wheeled – Running gear
Patent
1992-09-21
1994-05-31
Focarino, Margaret A.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Running gear
B62D 1700
Patent
active
053163320
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle kingpin assembly having a kingbolt journalled in a knuckle with laterally offset projections on the ends of the kingbolt, endcaps journalled in a yoke with offset openings therein holding the projections in spherical bearings, and compliant thrust bearings between the knuckle and the yoke so that the angular relationship between the knuckle and the yoke may be varied to adjust camber and/or caster by rotating the kingbolt in the knuckle and/or the endcaps in the yoke.
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patent: 4243339 (1981-01-01), Dickerson
patent: 4795187 (1989-01-01), Ingalls
patent: 4831744 (1989-05-01), Specktor et al.
patent: 4836574 (1989-06-01), Ingalls
"Spherical" Date and Source unknown.
Burdick Harold A.
Dickson Paul
Focarino Margaret A.
O'Rourke John E.
O'Rourke Thomas W.
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