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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2010
Gabriele Fruhmann, Bregenz, AT;
Volker Wagner, Ravensburg, DE;
Jens Heimann, Stetten, DE;
ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen, DE;
Abstract
A bearing mechanism for a transverse leaf spring that can be mounted near an axle of a vehicle. The bearing mechanism has an outer bearing shell device and insertion devices which have at least some regions encompassed by the outer bearing shell device. Each of the insertion devices comprise at least two layer elements which have different stiffness. In the assembled state, the insertion devices are each disposed between the outer bearing shell device and the transverse leaf spring. The outer bearing shell device comprises a one-piece bearing ring element, and the insertion devices can be operatively connected, at least in a force locking manner, to the bearing ring element and the transverse leaf spring, via tensioning elements.