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US 5,674,011 AGranted
Wheel bearing connector and seal unit
AssigneeFag Kugelfischer Georg Schafer & Co.
InventorsHeinrich Hofmann, Peter Neibling, Vasilis Hassiotis
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Abstract
To permit a reliable, compact, low vibration, lightweight wheel bearing unit having a small number of components and useful for the driven wheels of a motor vehicle, there is a connecting part fastened between the bearing arrangement on the wheel flange and a joint bell at the wheel hub and the connecting part extending between them providing elastic damping by the construction thereof.
Claims10
A wheel bearing unit for a drive wheel of a motor vehicle comprising:
- a wheel flange;
- a bearing arrangement comprising an inner race supported around the wheel flange, bearing rolling elements supported on the inner race, and an outer race around the inner race;
- a hub supported to the wheel flange;
- a joint bell for transmitting driving torque between the inner rotating race of the bearing and the wheel hub;
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- a connecting element positively fastening the joint bell to the bearing arrangement, the connecting element being arranged circumferentially, and between the bearing arrangement and the joint bell, so as to couple the bearing arrangement to the joint bell;
- the connecting element being of approximately generally T-shaped cross section having arms extending axially between the beating unit and the bell and including a post portion that projects radially inwardly to extend between the wheel flange and the hub.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.