Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Gerd Steinhauser

Hans Scheerer

Hermann Schobbe

Andreas Opara

Hans-Rudolf Steinert

Werner Mohrmann

Wolfhard Konig

A supporting mount for the angularly mobile flexible support of a supporting member of a wheel suspension, especially a shock absorber, has a mount core which is vulcanized into an elastomer body and the movements of which are limited in the supporting direction by stops fixed in relation to the housing. The elastomer body is prestressed in the mount housing in the supporting direction and held in a manner which does not involve contact with the stops. The supporting mount makes it possible to introduce small supporting forces comfortably into the vehicle bodywork by a soft characteristic while larger supporting forces are transmitted by the stops via a progressively hardening characteristic.

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Aichwald, Germany

Gerd Steinhauser