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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 07, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul Westphal, Stemwede, DE;
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F61C 1/106 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F61C 1/106 ;
Abstract
A radial ball-and-socket joint for a motor vehicle with a housing and a ball pivot, whose joint ball is mounted movably in all directions in a bearing shell, is presented, in which the bearing shell (,) has a two-part design and the joint ball (,) of the ball pivot (,) is radially progressively pretensioned by at least one damping element (,) between the upper shell (,) and the lower shell (,). The damping element is inserted into the housing (,) and has a lower Shore hardness than the bearing shell (,), wherein the bearing shell is only in punctiform or linear contact with the joint ball (,) of the ball pivot (,) in the unloaded state of the joint.