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US 11,718,133 B2Granted
Chassis control arm
AssigneeThk Co., Ltd.
InventorsVadim Kirsch, Manjunatha Madivala, Tamil Selvan Rajagopal, Wataru Saito, Marius Tillman, Harald Walter
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Abstract
A chassis control arm for a wheel suspension has a control arm body, a spring abutment and an actuator which is arranged between the control arm body and the spring abutment and with which the position of the spring abutment relative to the control arm body can be adjusted. The actuator comprises a lifting gear which is configured as a movement thread and which includes a lifting spindle on which the spring abutment is arranged or on which the spring abutment is axially movably mounted.
Claims15
A chassis control arm for a wheel suspension, comprising:
- a control arm body, a spring abutment and an actuator which is arranged between the control arm body and the spring abutment, wherein the actuator is configured to adjust a position of the spring abutment relative to the control arm body,
- wherein the actuator includes a lifting gear which is configured as a movement thread, the lifting gear includes a lifting spindle of which the spring abutment is arranged thereon,
- wherein the actuator further includes a housing which is cohesively attached to the control arm body,
- wherein the actuator housing is made of a thermoplastic plastic material and the control arm body is made of a metallic material, and
- wherein the cohesive attachment of the actuator housing to the control arm body is configured to be formed thereof by heating the control arm body to a melting temperature of the thermoplastic plastic material of the actuator housing and undergoing solidification.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.