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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1998
Torsten Nitschke, Damme, DE;
Lemforder Metallwaren AG, , DE;
Abstract
A wheel carrier for motor vehicles with a slotted area. The wheel carrier has two limitedly elastic clamping jaws on a wheel side, which are traversed by a clamping bolt, whose tightening torque determines the strength of a clamping joint. This clamping joint fixes an end piece of a pivot pin of a ball-and-socket joint, especially a guiding joint. This end piece is inserted into the wheel carrier. The joint ball of the pivot pin is mounted in a housing accommodating the joint ball movably in all directions. A clamping protector 5 covering the slotted area 1.1 of the wheel carrier 1 is inserted into the slotted area 1.1 of the wheel carrier 1 and is sealingly fixed in the slotted area, while the material of the clamping protector undergoes plastic deformation in at least some areas.