Chassis module and camber angle adjustment
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsSteven C. Hopson, Steve Scott Allen
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Abstract
One exemplary vehicle chassis module may include a knuckle, a sub-frame and a camber control link coupled to at least one of the knuckle and the sub-frame via a slot and a surface surrounding the slot. The vehicle chassis module may also include a bolt fastener having a head corresponding with the surface, such that the bolt fastener remains at a fixed position along the slot when torque is applied to the bolt fastener and the head rotatably slides across the surface.
Claims20
A vehicle chassis module, comprising:
- a knuckle;
- a sub-frame;
- a camber control link coupled to at least one of the knuckle and the sub-frame via a slot and a surface surrounding the slot;
- and
- a bolt fastener having a head corresponding with the surface, such that the bolt fastener remains at a fixed position along the slot when torque is applied to the bolt fastener and the head rotatably slides across the surface.
A vehicle chassis module, comprising:
- a sub-frame;
- a knuckle;
- a camber control link coupled to at least one of the sub-frame and the knuckle via a clevis, and the clevis includes a pair of slots and a pair of surfaces surrounding a respective one of the slots;
- a bolt fastener disposed in the slots;
- and
- a nut fastener engaged to the bolt fastener to attach the camber control link to one of the sub-frame and the knuckle;
- wherein the bolt fastener has a head corresponding with one of the surfaces of the clevis and the nut fastener corresponds with the other of the surfaces, such that the bolt fastener remains at a fixed position along the slots when torque is applied to at least one of the bolt fastener and the nut fastener.
A method for adjusting camber of a chassis module, comprising:
- attaching the chassis module to a tooling fixture;
- operating the tooling fixture to adjust the camber of the chassis module;
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- rotating a head of a bolt fastener across a planar surface of one of a sub-frame and a knuckle to hold the bolt fastener at a fixed point along a slot in the planar surface and hold the camber of the chassis module.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.