Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

Simon Aramah

Christoph Elbers

Jens Vortmeyer

Knut Heidsieck

Felix Haeusler

Marc Wiesenthal

A torsion beam axle for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle. The torsion beam axle has a torsionally compliant transverse section. A trailing arm is fixed at each opposed end of the transverse section. Each trailing arm supports a wheel carrier that pivots about a respective steering axis. The wheel carriers are connected to one another via ball joints and a tie rod, and couple an actuating mechanism for producing steering movement of the wheel carriers about their respective steering axes. A kinematic coupling system is connected to the tie rod and designed to regulate the degree of freedom of rotational movement of the tie rod. A torsion beam axle in which &#x2014;to minimizing track angle differences or unsymmetrical bouncing behavior&#x2014;the tie rod and actuating mechanism maintain optimum kinematic conditions in all operating situations.

Steerable twist-beam rear suspension

A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle is described, in which at least a first and at least a second control arm () are coupled in an articulated manner to a wheel carrier () carrying a vehicle wheel (). The wheel suspension has a compensating device () for correcting wheel positions, and each control arm () has a portion of the compensating device () or is connected to a portion of the compensating device (). The compensating device portions () of one wheel are connected to one another by at least one coupling member ().

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