Pivotable joint
AssigneeFilterwerk Mann & Hummel GmbH
InventorsManfred Mueller, Manfred Winter
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Abstract
A pivotable joint including a first part provided with pivot bores and a second part with resiliently mounted pivot pins received in said pivot bores such that the second part is pivotably mounted in a desired assembled position. The first part has a closed tubular cross section and may be a section of the intake manifold of an internal combustion engine. The resiliently mounted pivot pins are symmetrically mounted on opposite sides of the second part, which may be a throttle valve. The pivot pins are elastically displaceable axially during assembly of the first and second parts such that they snap resiliently into the pivot bores of the first part when the second part reaches the desired assembled position.
Claims7
In an intake manifold of an engine, a pivotable joint, comprising:
- a first part provided with pivot bores, and
- a second part with resiliently mounted pivot pins received in said pivot bores such that said second part is pivotably mounted in a desired assembled position relative to said first part,
- wherein said first part has a closed tubular cross section, and
- wherein said pivot pins of said second part are elastically displaceable during assembly of said first and second parts and snap resiliently into the pivot bores of said first part when said second part reaches said desired assembled position;
- wherein said first part comprises a section of said intake manifold of an internal combustion engine, and said second part is a throttle valve disposed in said intake manifold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.