Stabilizer and assembling method therefor
AssigneeNHK Spring Co., Ltd.
InventorsShuji Ohmura, Shigeru Kuroda
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Abstract
A stabilizer includes: a stabilizer bar made of a pipe material; and a stabilizer link that couples the stabilizer bar and a suspension device. The stabilizer link includes a ball stud which includes a shaft portion inserted to and fixed in an opening end of the stabilizer bar and a ball portion formed at a leading end of the shaft portion, a housing which rotatably supports the ball portion, and a flexible dust cover which includes one end attached on the housing so as to be unmovable in a ball stud axis direction and the other end attached on at least either of the shaft portion and the stabilizer bar and which seals a space between the housing and the ball stud.
Claims12
A stabilizer, comprising:
- a stabilizer bar made of a pipe material;
- and
- a stabilizer link that couples the stabilizer bar and a suspension device, wherein
- the stabilizer link includes
- a ball stud which includes a shaft portion inserted to and fixed in an opening end of the stabilizer bar and a ball portion formed at a leading end of the shaft portion,
- a housing which rotatably supports the ball portion, and
- a flexible dust cover which includes one end attached on the housing so as to be unmovable in a ball stud axis direction and another end attached on at least either of the shaft portion and the stabilizer bar, and which seals a space between the housing and the ball stud, wherein
- the other end of the dust cover is attached on the stabilizer bar so as to be unmovable in the ball stud axis direction.
A method for assembling a stabilizer including a stabilizer bar made of a pipe material and a stabilizer link that couples the stabilizer bar and a suspension device, wherein
- the stabilizer link includes
- a ball stud which includes a shaft portion inserted to and fixed in an opening end of the stabilizer bar and a ball portion formed at a leading end of the shaft portion,
- a housing which rotatably supports the ball portion, and
- a flexible dust cover which includes one end attached on the housing so as to be unmovable in a ball stud axis direction and another end attached on the stabilizer bar, and which seals a space between the housing and the ball stud, the method comprising:
- fixing the shaft portion and the stabilizer bar to each other in a state where the dust cover is folded to temporarily bring the other end of the dust cover close to the housing;
- and
- thereafter tightly attaching the other end of the dust cover on an outer circumferential surface of the stabilizer bar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.