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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 08, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Uwe Mauz, Esslingen, DE;
Assignee:
Mercedes-Benz AG, , DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61C / ; B62D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
280846 ; 1052151 ; 105 722 ;
Abstract
Steering apparatus for track-guidable buses or similar commercial vehicles, in which a supporting arm carrying a track guiding roller is conventionally held on a wheel carrier and extends in the driving direction, reaching outward in front of the vehicle wheel, each wheel carrier being equipped with a control arm connected by means of a tie rod. The supporting arms according to the invention at the same time forms the steering arm, and the tie rod disposed between the steering arms supports the lateral guiding forces in the straight-ahead driving position of the wheels.