Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Bjoern Reff

Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim

Thomas Gerhards

Ralf Hintzen

Paul Zandbergen

Rainer Souschek

Alberto Girelli Consolaro

Jacopo Palandri

A bearing eye for a leaf spring for sprung support of a vehicle component on a vehicle body of a vehicle may include a through opening and a torsion spring therein, and a first catch. The bearing eye may provide pivotable mounting of the leaf spring on the vehicle body. The torsion spring is twistable relative to the bearing eye and connectable non-rotatably to the vehicle body. The first catch may project radially inwardly into the through opening, and the torsion spring has a second catch that projects radially outwardly into the through opening. The first and second catches may form a locking engagement which, depending on a degree of relative twisting between the bearing eye and the torsion spring, stops the relative twisting.

Bearing eye for a leaf spring and leaf spring having a bearing eye

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Cologne, Germany

Bjoern Reff