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US 2014/0212205 A1Published application
Joint Housing of a Ball Joint as well as Method for Mounting the Joint Housing on a Carrier Element
AssigneeTRW Automotive GmbH
InventorsUwe Forthaus, Lothar Schaumann, Harald Walter
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Abstract
A joint housing of a ball joint comprises a sheet-metal part for accommodating a ball head, which is substantially rotationally symmetrical with respect to a joint axis and includes a circumferential wall portion, wherein the circumferential wall portion includes a housing opening at an axial end, through which a joint pin can extend, wherein the sheet-metal part is formed with two layers at this axial end of the circumferential wall portion.
Claims15
A joint housing of a ball joint, comprising:
- a sheet-metal part for accommodating a ball head, which is substantially rotationally symmetrical with respect to a joint axis and includes a circumferential wall portion,
- wherein the circumferential wall portion includes a housing opening at an axial end, through which a joint pin can extend, wherein the sheet-metal part is formed with two layers at the axial end of the circumferential wall portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.