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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2002
Stefan Schönhoff, Osnabrück, DE;
Markus Fischer, Steinfeld, DE;
Stefan Schönhoff, Osnabrück, DE;
Markus Fischer, Steinfeld, DE;
ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG, Stemwede-Dielingen, DE;
Abstract
A ball-and-socket joint, preferably for chassis suspensions and/or steering mechanisms of motor vehicles, is presented, which has a ball pivot pin (), which is accommodated rotatably and tiltably in a joint housing () with one of its free ends with a spherical joint area (). The other free end of the ball pivot pin () is fixed to a body part. The ball-and-socket joint has a stop device for limiting the tilting movement of the ball pivot pin () in the joint housing (), which comprises a stop element, which is arranged in the bottom area () of the joint housing () rotationally symmetrically to the longitudinal axis of the sphere and cooperates with the end-side joint area () of the ball pivot pin (). Corresponding to a first embodiment variant, the ball-and-socket joint has an arch projecting spherically over the bottom area () of the joint housing () as a stop element; a second solution variant provides for the stop element in the bottom area () of the joint housing () to have a hollow spherical shape, the radius of the hollow spherical shape being greater than the radius of the spherical shape of the joint area of the ball pivot pin ().