Method for fixing at least a guiding insert between two coaxial tubes, in particular in a motor vehicle anti-roll device
OwnerAlain Berthellemey, Denis Minguet +1inventors
InventorsAlain Berthellemey, Denis Minguet, Daniel Valin
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Abstract
Method of mounting at least one guiding insert between two coaxial tubes including mounting the at least one guiding insert onto an inner tube, wherein the at least one guiding insert includes an outer diameter, inserting the inner tube and the at least one guiding insert into an outer tube up to a selected position, wherein a clearance is maintained between a portion of the outer diameter of the at least one guiding insert and the inner diameter of the outer tube at the selected position, and securing the at least one guiding insert to the outer tube.
Claims18
Method of fixing at least one guiding insert (G1, G2) between two coaxial tubes (T1, T2), in particular of an anti-roll device for a motor vehicle, of the type comprising the following stages:
- a) first fixing each insert about an inner tube, and
- b) inserting a part of the inner tube, bearing the insert, into an accessible end of an outer tube until it reaches a selected position in this tube,
- characterised in that it comprises a preliminary step consisting in:
- a1) shaping each insert so that it has an outer diameter which is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the outer tube, in order to permit translation with clearance of the insert in the tube, from its accessible end at least as far as the aforesaid selected position (P1),
- and in that the method is continued with the following steps:
- c) make each insert thus slide into the tube as far as its selected position, and
- d) fix in the said position each insert in the tube.
Method according to claim 2, characterised in that the outer sleeve of each insert is extended axially beyond an active part (2) which the insert comprises, and in that this extension of the sleeve is disposed in the selected position during stage c).
Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterised in that it comprises an operation known as “elimination of clearance”, consisting in reducing locally in the selected position the diameter of the outer tube (T1) before fixing of the insert (G1) in stage d).
Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterised in that in stage c), at least two diametrically opposed fixing points are provided for each insert (G1) on the outer tube (T1).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.