Independent front wheel suspension for motor vehicles
AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorGuntram Huber
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Abstract
An independent front wheel suspension for motor vehicles with at least one wheel guide structure that includes a longitudinal guide member extending in the vehicle longitudinal direction toward the vehicle end wall and pivotally connected within the area thereof; the longitudinal guide member is constructed as element deformable under compression with a predetermined deformation characteristic.
Claims6
An independent wheel suspension for a motor vehicle, characterized in that the independent front wheel suspension comprises at least two cross guide arms connected to a vehicle support member and to a wheel carrier, a guide element extending in a vehicle longitudinal direction is connected to each cross guide arm and at the vehicle end wall, one end of each of the guide elements is respectively connected to the cross guide arm at a position intermediate the vehicle support member and the wheel carrier, the second end of each of the guide elements is pivotally connected within an area of the vehicle end wall, each of the longitudinal guide elements includes means for enabling the guide element to deform under compression with a predetermined deformation characteristic, and in that one of the guide elements is an arm of a U-shaped stabilizer pivotally connected to the vehicle end wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.