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Dirk Lamla

Metin Ersoy

Volker Grube

Frank Nachbar

Wolfgang Schmitt

Olaf Abels

Stefan Loheide

Jochen Kruse

Jürgen Gräber

Manfred Bohne

Olaf Beutler

Günter Lohfink

Achim Möll

Ulrich Bladt

Pascal Lettmann

Bernhard Groenniger

Thomas Rösler

Melanie Enkler

Christian Maassmann

Dirk Maehlmann

Philipp Grevemeyer

Florian Schiller

Annette Nienaber

Jens Otte

Heinrich Lohmann

A method for producing a ball joint () and/or a chassis component (), in which a joint ball () is made, in which the joint ball () is placed in an injection-molding die, in which the joint ball () is partially overmolded with a plastic material, and in which the plastic material is hardened to form an injection-molded joint housing () for the joint ball (). A joint housing () is formed using the joint ball without a joint pin (), and the joint ball () has respective pole surfaces () on two sides remote from one another.

Method for producing a ball joint and/or a chassis component, and chassis component of this type

A ball and socket joint () is provided, for example, for a chassis bearing, with a ball (), a pivot () originating from the ball (), a housing () accommodating the ball, and a sealing bellows (), which extends between the housing () and the pivot () and has a housing-side opening () and a pivot-side opening (). The sealing bellows () has a circumferential sealing lip () for sealing at the pivot-side opening (). The ball and socket joint () has a first guide ring (), which guides the sealing bellows (). The first guide ring () is arranged at the pivot (). An especially favorable functional separation is achieved as a result between the guiding function and the sealing function.

Ball and socket joint with sealing bellows

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