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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2020
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Jacopo Palandri, Aachen, DE;
Rainer Souschek, Aachen, DE;
Ralf Hintzen, Aachen, DE;
Alberto Girelli Consolaro, Aachen, DE;
Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim, Aachen, DE;
Bjoern Reff, Cologne, DE;
Thomas Gerhards, Niederzier, DE;
Paul Zandbergen, Wurselen, DE;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A bearing eye for a leaf spring for sprung support of a vehicle component on a vehicle body of a vehicle may include a through opening and a torsion spring therein, and a first catch. The bearing eye may provide pivotable mounting of the leaf spring on the vehicle body. The torsion spring is twistable relative to the bearing eye and connectable non-rotatably to the vehicle body. The first catch may project radially inwardly into the through opening, and the torsion spring has a second catch that projects radially outwardly into the through opening. The first and second catches may form a locking engagement which, depending on a degree of relative twisting between the bearing eye and the torsion spring, stops the relative twisting.