Ball joint
AssigneeSomic Management Holdings Inc.
InventorTomoya Hirano
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Abstract
A ball joint reducing influence on a characteristic by fixing a plug by swaging while preventing corotation of a bearing sheet. The ball joint includes a housing-including a housing body part and the plug fixed to the housing body part at one end portion thereof by swaging and closing the housing body part at the one end portion. The ball joint includes the cylindrical bearing sheet rotatably holding a ball part and housed and held in the housing. The bearing sheet includes a groove formed at an end facing the plug. The plug includes a projection inserted into the groove. The height of the projection is less than the depth of the groove, the width of the projection is greater than the width of the groove, and the projection contacts the bearing sheet at a width smaller on an inner side than on an outer side relative to the groove.
Claims4
A ball joint comprising:
- a receiving-side member including a cylindrical receiving-side member body opened at both ends, and a closing member fixed to the receiving-side member body at one end portion thereof by swaging and closing the receiving-side member body at the one end portion;
- a cylindrical sliding member housed and held in the receiving-side member;
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- a ball-side member including a ball part rotatably held by the sliding member, wherein
- the sliding member includes a groove formed at an end portion facing the closing member,
- the closing member includes a projection inserted into the groove,
- the height of the projection is less than the depth of the groove, the width of the projection is greater than the width of the groove, and the projection contacts the sliding member at a width smaller on an inner side than on an outer side relative to the groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.