Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

Zf Lemforder Metallwaren Ag

Carl Freudenberg Kg

Arnold Blanke

Thomas Kramer

Nedal Idies

Dirk Mählmann

Thomas Herrmann

Thomas Rösler

Jan Duetz

Tobias Lahrmann

Hermann Heitmann

Jens Diekhoff

Uwe Schmidt

A closure element () for a ball joint () in a vehicle. The closure element has a receptacle () for accommodating an electronic component (). To be able to reduce the effort and cost of creating an interface, between the closure element and the electronic component, the closure element () has a receptacle () which is made of a plastic material and is injection-molded onto one side () of the closure element ().

Closure element for a ball-and-socket joint, and ball-and-socket joint having a closure element of this kind

A ball-and-socket joint () is provided with a sleeve () or a pivot () with a partial spherical surface () and with a bearing shell () surrounding the partial spherical surface () in a positive-locking manner with a hollow spherical bearing surface (). The bearing surface () is arranged in a two-part housing (), whose housing halves () have locking elements () with detents () and locking grooves () mutually engaging one another, which lock the two housing halves () with one another in a relatively immovable manner in the direction of the longitudinal axis () of the sleeve () or of the pivot () in their final assembled position. The bearing surface () for the partial spherical surface () of the sleeve () or of the pivot () is integrated in the inner surfaces of the two housing halves () and these () are surrounded on their outer surfaces () by a metallic ring element () in a positive-locking manner.

Ball joint

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Damme, Germany

Arnold Blanke