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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Reinhard Buhl, Bohmte, DE;
Wilfried Lustig, Hude, DE;
Assignee:
ZF Lemforder Metallwaren AG, Stenmwede-Dielingen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
403282 ; 403122 ; 403131 ; 403279 ; 72354 ;
Abstract
A metallic ball pin of a universal joint, preferably one with high load-bearing capacity, for motor vehicles, which is mounted movably in all directions in a bearing shell of a housing with a joint ball 2 designed at one end of a pin stump 1. To improve its functional properties and to reduce its manufacturing costs, a machined joint ball 2 with a through-hole 5 is nonrotatably attached to a fastening pin 4 of a pin stump 1 manufactured by cold forming in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the pin stump 1, and it is held by deforming the fastening pin 4.