Joint housing of a ball joint as well as method for mounting the joint housing on a carrier element
AssigneeTHK RHYTHM AUTOMOTIVE GmbH
InventorsUwe Forthaus, Lothar Schaumann, Harald Walter
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Abstract
This invention relates to a joint housing (10) of a ball joint (12), comprising a sheet-metal part (14) for accommodating a ball head (16), which is substantially rotationally symmetrical with respect to a joint axis (A) and includes a circumferential wall portion (18), wherein the circumferential wall portion (18) includes a housing opening (26) at an axial end (24), through which a joint pin (28) can extend, wherein the sheet-metal part (14) is formed with two layers at this axial end (24) of the circumferential wall portion (18). Furthermore, the invention also relates to a method for mounting such joint housing (10) on a carrier element (34).
Claims7
An assembly with a joint housing and a carrier element,
- the joint housing 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, the sheet-metal part being formed with two layers at this axial end of the circumferential wall portion,
- the carrier element including an assembly opening which is surrounded by a holding portion
- the circumferential wall portion of the joint housing extending through the assembly opening,
- the holding portion surrounding the circumferential wall portion of the joint housing with such a pretension that the joint housing is frictionally held in the holding portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.