US 6,579,025 B1 · Rod for motor vehicles

Abstract

A steering tie rod for motor vehicles with a pipe, which is provided with an internal thread in a first direction of rotation on at least one side and is slotted at least in some areas, is presented, into which an adjusting sleeve is screwed at its end, where a ball-and-socket joint housing shaft of a ball-and-socket joint present at the end of the steering tie rod is screwed into the internal thread of the adjusting sleeve, which latter internal thread has a second direction of rotation opposite the first direction of rotation. An axial adjusting movement of the pipe relative to the ball-and-socket joint is made possible by a wrench contact surface made in one piece with the adjusting sleeve. The adjusting sleeve (1) has at least one recessed slot (2) and a collar band (4), which is fixed on the outer jacket surface of the pipe (3) and fixes the components in their position in relation to one another.

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Dependent claims

A steering tie rod for motor vehicles, the tie rod comprising:

a pipe having an internal thread in a first direction of rotation on an end, said pipe being slotted in at least some areas;
an adjusting sleeve screwed into said pipe at said end, said adjusting sleeve including an internal thread whose direction of rotation is opposite the first direction of rotation, said adjusting sleeve having a wrench contact surface made in one piece with the adjusting sleeve, said adjusting sleeve having at least one recessed slot not extending into said wrench contact surface, said wrench contact surface extending completely around said adjusting sleeve, wherein said recessed slot is spaced from both ends of said adjusting sleeve.
a ball-and-socket joint with a ball-and-socket joint housing shaft screwed into the adjusting sleeve to make possible an axial adjusting movement of the pipe relative to the ball-and-socket joint by said wrench contact surface;
and
a collar band fixed on an outer jacket surface of said pipe for fixing said pipe and adjusting sleeve in positions relative to one another.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Rod for motor vehicles

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Rod for motor vehicles

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