Lemforder Metallwaren Ag

Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

Alfons Nordloh

Volker Grube

Metin Ersoy

Reinhard Buhl

Frank Nachbar

Julian Stratmann

Wolfgang Kleiner

Josef Holtheide

Peter Kontermann

Frank Scheper

Alexander Neu

Felix Kallass

Klaus Bröker

Silke Otto

Markus Wulf

Michael Beyer

Cord Fricke

Andreas Pasch

Jens Diekhoff

A wheel suspension having at least one chassis suspension link, a first track rod and a second track rod. A deflecting lever connects the first track rod and the second track rod to one another and the deflecting lever is mounted on the at least one chassis suspension link. To produce a simple structure of the bearing system, the bearing system is in the form of a slide bearing which is accommodated by a bearing section of the at least one chassis suspension link, in which a fastener, that connects the deflecting lever and the at least one chassis suspension link, is fitted.

Wheel suspension

A trailing arm device () of a drivable torsion beam axle () is described. The trailing arm device () has a housing () in which a drive-train () can be arranged and is connected to a trailing arm (). The housing (), as fitted into position within a vehicle, has a sidewall () formed integrally with a central housing region () on a side facing toward a wheel. The sidewall delimits a housing interior space () that accommodates, at least partially, the drive-train (). On the side facing away from the wheel, the housing interior space () is delimited by at least one cover element () that can be detachably connected to the central housing region ().

Longitudinal control arm device of a drivable semi-independent suspension

A process for manufacturing a ball and socket joint and a joint manufactured according to that process are provided for a simple manufacture of a completely assembled ball and socket joint with a low torque and overturning moment. The joint housing is manufactured in an injection or casting process, in which the joint ball with the bearing shell placed on it is surrounded by a metallic material or a plastic. The joint shell is provided with a bulge, which behaves elastically with respect to the pressure acting during the injection or casting process and arches slightly outwardly after the conclusion of the injection or casting process. It is achieved as a result that the joint shell does not lie over its entire area on the joint ball after the injection or casting process.

Process for manufacturing a ball and socket joint and ball and socket joint manufactured according to the process

A hinged support or the like for the articulated connection of chassis parts in motor vehicles, in which bearing eyes (1, 2) provided at the ends are connected to one another in one piece by a shaft part (5). The shaft part (5), manufactured according to the injection molding process, has an inner, longitudinally extending hollow section and a smooth outer contour.

Hinged support or the like for the articulated connection of chassis

A hinged support or the like for the articulated connection of chassis parts in motor vehicles, in which a section connecting bearing eyes at the ends to one another is designed as a hollow section and is assembled from parts which are manufactured as shell-shaped open parts and are connected to one another after manufacture to form a closed hollow section.

A ball-and-socket joint for chassis parts in motor vehicles, in which a joint ball provided on a pivot pin is mounted within a housing in a sliding shell made of plastic, wherein the outer jacket of the sliding shell is tightly enclosed by the inner jacket of the housing. To compensate manufacturing tolerances, a material, which is highly elastic compared with the material of the sliding shell, is arranged in a recess on the outer jacket of the sliding shell (4) at least at points of increased load by the joint ball.

Ball-and-socket joint for chassis parts in motor vehicles

A mounting for a shift lever (1) for the mechanical remote control of a selector shaft of a gear change box in motor vehicles, in which the shift lever (1) is mounted pivotably around a selection axis and around a shifting axis, which is at right angles thereto, by means of a spherical part (2) of a universal joint in a bearing box (4) in a housing (3) that is a rigid part of the body, and is connected by coupling members (7, 16) to a sliding selector shaft of a gear change box. The coupling members for transmitting the movement of the shift lever to the sliding selector shaft are connected, articulated around an axle (9, 12) each, to the spherical part (2) of a universal joint, wherein the axle extends in one pivoting plane of the shift lever (1) at right angles to the pivot axis of the shift lever in the other direction of pivoting.

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Alfons Nordloh