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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2002
Hans-gerd Brunneke, Osnabrück, DE;
Ralf Kunze, Bad Essen, DE;
Hans-Gerd Brunneke, Osnabrück, DE;
Ralf Kunze, Bad Essen, DE;
ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG, Stemwede-Dielingen, DE;
Abstract
A ball-and-socket joint for a motor vehicle, especially for the chassis of the motor vehicle has a ball-and-socket joint housing (i), which has a joint opening and in which a bearing shell () made of an insulating material is arranged. A ball pivot () is made of an electrically conductive material and has a joint ball () and a pivot () mounted rotatably and pivotably with its joint ball () in the bearing shell () and protrudes with its pivot () from the ball-and-socket joint housing () through the joint opening. An electrode () is arranged in the wall () of the bearing shell () at a spaced location from the joint ball (), and the electrode () and the joint ball () are electrically insulated against each other via the bearing shell ().