Daimler-benz Ag

Helmut Flemming

Manfred Von Der Ohe

Otto Solleder

Einhard Kleinschmit

Werner Konig

Dirk Siebelt

A supporting bearing for resiliently supporting parts to be connected to one another, such as the body and rear axle housing of a motor vehicle, includes two bearing parts to be arranged on mutually opposite bearing surfaces of one part, coaxially to a bore traversing the latter. These bearing parts are each equipped with an annular elastomer element arranged between two supporting parts and can be clamped to the part in which the bore has been made using a clamping bolt traversing the bearing parts and the bore with radial clearance. The elastomer elements of the two bearing parts are, on the one hand, vulcanized to one of the supporting parts accommodating them between them and, on the other hand, rest on the other supporting part by an integrally formed surface region projecting at their free front face.

Supporting bearing

This invention relates to a suspension of an axle gear casing for motor vehicles comprising at least two elastic suspension elements, with one of the suspension elements arranged in front of the axle shaft and the other one arranged behind the axle shaft, in alignment with one another in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and offset to the side of the longitudinal axis of the gear casing, wherein coordination of the stiffnesses of the suspension elements causes a rotating movement of the axle gear casing opposing a movement of the axle gear casing that occurs under the influence of the driving reaction moment from the vehicle wheels and engine drive and which normally shifts the front end of the casing correspondingly in the upward direction to maintain the position of the drive shaft of the axle gear with respect to a center of a flexible disk of a driving cardan shaft to ensure that a change of angle between the drive shaft and the cardan shaft is limited to a tolerable extent.

Suspension of an axle gear casing for motor vehicles

A supporting body for wheel guide members of motor vehicle wheels, especially rear wheels. The supporting body is adapted to be fastened to the vehicle body in end areas thereof by way of at least one elastic element. The supporting body is formed of two stamped or pressed sheet metal members, with each of the members being flat at one end and shell-shaped at the opposite end. The two sheet metal members are joined together in such a manner that in each case the flat end portion of one sheet metal member covers the shell-shaped portion of the opposite sheet metal member.

Supporting body for wheel guide members of motor vehicle wheels

An independent wheel suspension for motor vehicles, with the wheel suspension including a wheel carrier supported relative to a vehicle body by guide elements which determine an upper and lower guide point for the wheel carrier with respect to lateral forces. At least one of the guide points is elastically movable in a transverse direction relative to the vehicle body, with the guide points together fixing a vertical first pivot axis for the wheel carrier. The carrier furthermore is supported by a transversely extending track rod offset laterally, as seen in a side view of the wheel suspension. Under the influence of lateral forces, the upper guide point is displacable outwards relative to the lower guide point and a second pivot axis, determined by the lower guide point and the articulation point of the track rod on the wheel carrier extends, in a side view, obliquely forwardly and upwardly, with respect to the normal driving direction of the vehicle, so as to enable an adjustment of the wheel suspension in a toe-in direction. The second pivot axis may also extend, in a side view, upwardly and obliquely rearwardly, with respect to the normal driving direction of the vehicle, for enabling an adjustment of the wheel suspension in a toe-out direction.

Independent wheel suspension

An axle carrier for motor vehicles having two side members extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and two transverse members which connect the side members and are connected to the side members so that the corners at the point of connection are rigid or stiff with respect to moments about a longitudinal axis of the side members. These side members are constructed as hollow profiles which are resistant to torsion and to bending and, in a region of the respective ends thereof, are provided with openings for accommodating elastic supporting elements enabling the connecting of the axle carrier to a body of the vehicle. The axle carrier connection for the wheel guide members are provided only on the side members. The transverse members are formed by open profiles flexible to torsion, with respect to their longitudinal axis, and resistant to bending in a vertical direction transversely to the longitudinal axis.

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Hochdorf, Germany

Helmut Flemming