Daimler Chrysler Ag

Mercedes-benz Aktiengesellschaft

Hans-Rudolf Steinert

Eberhard Kutscher

Hans Scheerer

Hermann Schobbe

Andreas Opara

Walter Schulz

Werner Mohrmann

Peter Fritz

Wolfhard Konig

Horst Swinnen

Gerd Steinhauser

Device for determining the distance between vehicle body and vehicle wheel

In a sensor arrangement for a vehicle wheel suspension, a pivot arm is mounted pivotably on a vehicle body and a sensor for detecting the relative position between pivot arm and vehicle body is arranged in a fixed position on the vehicle body. The sensor is mechanically coupled to the pivot arm. A sensor-side attachment element and a pivot-arm-side attachment element are attached to the vehicle body at a common attachment point.

Sensor arrangement on a wheel suspension for a vehicle

A support bearing supporting a shock absorber piston rod at a vehicle frame part is disclosed which includes cup-shaped receptacles attached to both sides of the frame part. Elastic support elements are clamped into the receptacles between respective sides of the frame part and stops on a piston rod extending through the receptacles frame part and elastic support elements. To aid in centering the elastic support elements in the receptacles, ribs are provided on one of the elastic elements and the receptacles side walls, such that no other centering attachment of the elastic elements to the receptacles such as by vulcanization, is required.

Support bearing for automotive vehicles

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.

Supporting mount

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Hans-Rudolf Steinert