Zf Lemforder Metallwaren Ag

Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

Thomas Rösler

Metin Ersoy

Volker Grube

Wolfgang Schmitt

Olaf Abels

Jochen Kruse

Jürgen Gräber

Manfred Bohne

Achim Möll

Dirk Lamla

Arnold Blanke

Dirk Mählmann

Melanie Enkler

Uwe Schmidt

A ball and socket joint () is provided, for example, for a chassis bearing, with a ball (), a pivot () originating from the ball (), a housing () accommodating the ball, and a sealing bellows (), which extends between the housing () and the pivot () and has a housing-side opening () and a pivot-side opening (). The sealing bellows () has a circumferential sealing lip () for sealing at the pivot-side opening (). The ball and socket joint () has a first guide ring (), which guides the sealing bellows (). The first guide ring () is arranged at the pivot (). An especially favorable functional separation is achieved as a result between the guiding function and the sealing function.

Ball and socket joint with sealing bellows

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Osnabrück, Germany

Thomas Rösler