Vehicle axle and its arrangement on a vehicle

Abstract

A vehicle axle having: a rigid axle body; two steering knuckles, each articulated pivotably about a respective steering axis to an axial end region of the axle body relative to a longitudinal axis parallel to the track direction; a main steering actuator device formed as a pressure-medium-operated piston-cylinder assembly having two piston rods that extend parallel to the longitudinal axis of the axle body and on the free ends of which an end of a main coupling member is arranged at a respective articulation point, the other end of which main coupling member is articulated to a respective steering knuckle at a respective articulation point; and an auxiliary steering actuator device that acts on one of the steering knuckles. The auxiliary steering actuator device is a piston-cylinder assembly having a piston rod that extends parallel to the longitudinal axis of the axle body and to the free end of which an auxiliary coupling member is articulated at an articulation point, the other end of which auxiliary coupling member is articulated to the steering knuckle at an articulation point that lies on a line parallel to and spaced from the steering axis, through the articulation point of the main coupling member.

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