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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2012
Applicants:
Dirk Ehrlich, Bodenheim, DE;
Werner Brinker, Darmstadt, DE;
Inventors:
Dirk Ehrlich, Bodenheim, DE;
Werner Brinker, Darmstadt, DE;
Assignee:
GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60G 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A suspension of a vehicle axle is provided having a twist-beam axle that includes, but is not limited to two trailing arms, each of which have a wheel suspension and are interconnected via a cross brace with a torsion profile, which is designed stiff to bending and torsionally soft. The twist-beam axle connects to a Watt linkage of arrowed design, which articulates on the trailing arms laterally offset to an axis through a wheel center of the wheel suspension.