Spring device for a motor-vehicle wheel suspension
AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorIngo WINTER
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Abstract
A spring device for a motor vehicle wheel suspension that includes a first leaf spring made of fiber-reinforced plastic and a second leaf spring made of fiber-reinforced plastic. The second leaf spring is shorter than the first leaf spring and together with the first leaf spring forms a V-shaped structure, which, in the region of the joined ends of the V-shape, has a first fastening device for the vehicle-body-side support and at the free ends of the V shape has a second fastening device on the first leaf spring for wheel-side support and a third fastening device on the second leaf spring for vehicle-body-side support.
Claims12
A spring device for a motor vehicle wheel suspension, the spring device comprising:
- a first leaf spring made of fiber-reinforced plastic;
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- a second leaf spring made of fiber-reinforced plastic, which is shorter than the first leaf spring and together with the first leaf spring forms a V-shaped structure, which, in a region of joined ends, has a first fastening device for a vehicle-body-side support and at free ends has a second fastening device on the first leaf spring for wheel-side support and a third fastening device on the second leaf spring for vehicle-body-side support.
A motor vehicle wheel suspension comprising a spring device according to claim, wherein, on each wheel side, the first and second leaf springs each extend in a vehicle transverse direction or enclose therewith an angle of at most +/−15° when viewed in a horizontal plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.