Spring link made of steel
AssigneeBenteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
InventorsOliver Mielke, Detlev Peitz, Hauke Mehner, Tobias Ebbing
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a spring link for a motor vehicle, wherein the spring link is produced as an elongated, deformed hollow profile of open cross section made of a steel material and has respective attachment points at its ends, said spring link being characterized in that the spring link, in the installed position, is arranged with its opening of the hollow profile pointing upward, wherein a spring seat plate for receiving a helical compression spring is coupled to the spring link on and/or partially in the opening.
Claims16
Spring link for a motor vehicle, wherein
- the spring link is produced as an elongated, deformed hollow profile of open cross section made of a steel material and has respective attachment points at longitudinal ends of the spring link,
- the spring link, in an installed position, is arranged with an opening of the hollow profile pointing upward,
- a spring seat plate for receiving a helical compression spring is coupled to the spring link on and/or partially in the opening,
- the hollow profile, in the open cross section and the installed position, comprises:
- a web,
- two opposing legs extending upwardly from the web, and
- in a region of the spring seat plate,
- flanges protruding laterally from the legs, and
- collars formed on the flanges, and
- in the installed position and in the region of the spring seat plate,
- the flanges protrude laterally from upper ends of the legs, and
- the collars are bent downward from distal ends of the flanges toward the web.
Spring link for a motor vehicle, wherein
- the spring link is produced as an elongated, deformed hollow profile of open cross section made of a steel material and has respective attachment points at longitudinal ends of the spring link,
- the spring link, in an installed position, is arranged with an opening of the hollow profile pointing upward,
- a spring seat plate for receiving a helical compression spring is coupled to the spring link on and/or partially in the opening,
- the hollow profile, in the open cross section and the installed position, comprises:
- a web,
- two opposing legs extending upwardly from the web, and
- in a region of the spring seat plate,
- flanges protruding laterally from the legs, and
- collars formed on the flanges, and
- a spacing between the legs in the region of the spring seat plate is smaller than or equal to a spacing between the legs in a region of one of the longitudinal ends or attachment points.
Spring link for a motor vehicle, wherein
- the spring link is produced as an elongated, deformed hollow profile of open cross section made of a steel material and has respective attachment points at longitudinal ends of the spring link,
- the spring link, in an installed position, is arranged with an opening of the hollow profile pointing upward,
- a spring seat plate for receiving a helical compression spring is coupled to the spring link on and/or partially in the opening,
- the hollow profile, in the open cross section and the installed position, comprises:
- a web,
- two opposing legs extending upwardly from the web, and
- in a region of the spring seat plate, collars formed on the legs, and
- in the installed position and in the region of the spring seat plate, the collars are bent downward toward the web.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.