Audi Ag

Friedrich Killian

Walter Schmidt

Hugo Müller

Roland Hudler

Wolfgang Unger

Hans Jurgen Brandl

Karl Schramm

Martin Poplutz

Hans Jürgen Brandl

Claus Lacher

Richard Wagner

The invention relates to an independent wheel suspension for the rear wheels of motor vehicles, having a wheel support which is hinge-connected to at least one upper and one lower control arm, the lower control arm being connected by way of two more or less horizontal arm bearings forming pivot axes on the body of the motor vehicle and on the wheel support and a guide arm of the wheel support to another bearing, and also having a bearing spring resting on the wheel support and a more or less vertically oriented telescopic shock absorber. For the creation of a structurally and elastokinematically favorable wheel suspension it is proposed, as viewed from above, that the other guide rod is mounted more or less in the lower guide rod plane and diagonally forward from the exterior toward the interior, in such a way that the intersection of imaginary extensions of the other guide rod and the rear bearing points of the lower guide rod is positioned beyond the extended wheel center axis.

Independent wheel suspension for the rear wheels of motor vehicles

In a wheel suspension for steered wheels of motor vehicles, having a pivoting wheel carrier, which has a lower suspension elements, two suspension arms which extend to converge toward the wheel carrier the suspension spring of the motor vehicle is supported at one of the suspension arms in such a way that a transverse component of force effects a steering return at this arm. In this connection, the steering geometry is designed in such a way that multiplied by the lever arm between the point of articulation of the suspension arm at the wheel carrier and the idealized steering axis formed by the extension of the suspension arms this transverse component of force assumes a smaller value for a steering angle on the inside of the bend than for a steering angle on the outside of the bend.

Wheel suspension for steered wheels of motor vehicles

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Hitzhofen, Germany

Friedrich Killian