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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 1989
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1988
Hans-Heinrich Welschof, Rodenbach, DE;
Rudolf Beier, Offenbach, DE;
Lohr & Bromkamp GmbH, Offenbach/Main, DE;
Abstract
A wheel supporting assembly for a motor vehicle, comprising a wheel carrier member (1) with means for attachment to at least one suspension component, and a unit of hub member (16), universal joint member (21), and bearing with outer race (15) integral with or received in a bearing housing (3), secured to the wheel carrier member. The wheel carrier member affords a formation (2) open and undercut-free in a direction transversely of the rotational axis of the hub member, so that the hub member-bearing unit can be fitted radially to the wheel carrier member. The bearing housing of the unit is then held to the wheel carrier member by at least two fixing elements, particularly bolts, spaced from one another by a distance greater than an outer diameter of the bearing, which distance is preferably less than the size of a flange on the hub member to which a wheel is to be attached.