Stabilus Gmbh

Horst Maury

Klaus Koch

Rolf Mintgen

Castor Fuhrmann

Helmut Morgen

Peter Thurmann

Alfred K Klein

Oliver Greb

Horst Kaufmann

Stefan V&ouml;lpel

Dieter Henke

Jorg Gustke

Karl Seibert

A spring element exerts a radial force on a pivotable ball head and thereby prestresses it in a ball cup, the spring element being formed by a leaf spring which extends along the lengthwise axis of the ball head and whose active line of force is directed toward the ball cup below the equator of the ball head.

Ball joint assembly for a piston-and cylinder unit

A pressurized gas spring, which exerts an expulsion force on the piston rod entailing a maximum extension velocity of the piston rod, includes braking means effective at a velocity of motion due to external forces above the maximum extension velocity for limiting the velocity of motion to a desired measure.

Gas spring with braking means

Hinge eye for a piston-cylinder unit, or shock absorber, in particular for air springs, comprising a bracket with an opening, a bearing surface for a connection shank which is connected to a base body, and at least one retaining tab. The retaining tab is actively connected to the piston-cylinder unit and forms a locking connection with a groove of the connection shank. The retaining tab(s) and the part of the hinge eye which forms the opening with the bearing surface are realized in one piece.

Shock absorber and a hinge eye for a shock absorber

A ball socket body (16) of a ball-and-socket joint has an exterior surface (18) and a ball-receiving channel (20). The receiving channel (20) has a channel axis (P--P), an insertion opening (22), an interior circumferential surface (24), an interior end support (26) and ball-securing elements (32). The ball socket body (16) may be made of one piece with the securing cam (32) and may also have a passage (30) opening through the back exterior surface thereof to make a ball head (10) located in the ball socket body (16) accessible to a tool. The ball head (10) is provided with a tool engagement point (10b) for reception of the tool. By use of the tool, the ball head (10) may readily be fastened to a support structure even though the ball head (10) has already been assembled with the ball socket body (16).

Ball-and-socket joint and method for the assembly thereof

A pneumatic spring is equipped with a shell tube (12) which is telescopically guided on a pneumatic-spring cylinder (9) and which can snap into different positions. For bolting between the shell tube (12) and the pneumatic-spring cylinder (9), a bolt body (16) is attached to the cylinder bottom (17). In the bolt body (16), a bolt (18) is spring-loaded by a resilient force directed radially outward. In order to bolt the pneumatic-spring cylinder (9) relative to the shell tube (12), the bolt (18) engages in various breaches (19a and 19). Finger pressure required to release the bolting depends on which one of the two relative-shift directions between the pneumatic-spring cylinder (9) and the shell tube (12) is intended. (FIG. 1 )

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Horst Maury