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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gerhard Heutschi, Schaan, LI;
Christian Lutz, Nüziders, AT;
Assignee:
Krupp Presta AG, Eschen, LI;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D 3/40 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D 3/40 ;
Abstract
A steering shaft double joint is provided for motor vehicles where the shaft ends are connected non-rotatably in the joint. Each of the shaft ends is movably mounted in a housing connecting two joints with the shaft ends being connected by a ball joint so that the ball is rotatable around a midpoint in a receptacle of a shaft end and is slightly movably mounted in a direction of the shaft axis of the other shaft end. The ball is spring mounted in the receptacle and the receptacle contains and surrounds a bushing with elastic material located between the receptacle and bushing.