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US 2002/0118997 A1Published application
Tubular body, especially a joint eye for piston-cylinder unit
AssigneeZF Sachs AG
InventorGunther Handke
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Abstract
Tubular body, especially for the joint eye of a piston-cylinder unit, where the tubular body is formed from a flat sheet-metal blank having at least two stamped sleeve parts connected to each other by a connecting web. In the final fabrication state, the sleeve parts are axially aligned, one next to each other, with their end surfaces facing each other.
Claims12
A tubular body formed from a sheet metal blank having a pair of stamped sleeve parts having axial end surfaces and connected by a web, said tubular body comprising
- a pair of stamped sleeve parts connected by a web, said sleeve parts being coaxial and having respective axial end surfaces which are mutually facing.
A tubular body formed from a sheet metal blank, said tubular body comprising
- a pair of opposed ends,
- an inside wall extending between said ends, and
- a pair of transition surfaces pressed into respective end surfaces and leading to the inside wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.