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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
May. 31, 2019
Applicant:
Nhk Spring Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Shigeru Kuroda, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
NHK SPRING CO., LTD., Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 11/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 11/0623 (2013.01);
Abstract
An axial ball joint is provided with: a ball stud including a stud section and a ball section; a metallic housing which rotatably supports the ball section of the ball stud; and a resin-made ball seat which is provided to be interposed between the ball section and the housing. The housing is formed into a bottomed cylinder shape by pressing. The thickness of a bottom wall and the thickness of a circumferential side wall of the housing are set to be equal to each other. A plurality of bead sections are formed on the inner bottom of the housing by press-molding or forging.