US 7,530,588 B2Granted

Mounting assembly for a vibration damper

AssigneeZF Friedrichshafen AG

InventorsThomas Pflaum, Claudius Freisinger, Andreas Zietsch

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Abstract

Mounting assembly for a vibration damper, comprising at least one aligning surface on the vibration damper side, which is in working connection with an opposing surface on the vehicle side at least during the installation of the vibration damper in a receiving opening in the vehicle. The at least one aligning surface and the opposing surface rotationally align the mounting side with the vehicle side. The aligning surface is arranged on a mounting cap with torque-transmitting element, and with at least one axial support surface for cooperation with the opposing surface on the vehicle side. The mounting cap prevents the vibration damper from falling out of the mounting assembly through the use of a carrier on the mounting side, to which the vibration damper is attached, this carrier having a retaining element in the form of a tongue which engages an opening in the mounting cap.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A mounting assembly for mounting a vibration damper to a mounting surface in a vehicle, the mounting surface having a receiving opening and connecting means for connecting to said mounting assembly, wherein said mounting assembly comprises:

a carrier element with a retainer having at least one tongue, the carrier element being fixedly connectable to the vibration damper;
and
a mounting cap comprising at least one surface connectable with a corresponding surface in the receiving opening in the vehicle for rotationally aligning the connecting means on the mounting surface of the vehicle with corresponding connecting means on mounting assembly, said mounting cap having a torque transmitting element for transmitting torque to the vibration damper when the vibration damper is connected to said carrier element and at least one axial support surface cooperating with the opposing mounting surface on the vehicle when the mounting cap is received in the receiving opening, said mounting cap having an opening arranged and dimensioned for receiving the at least one tongue of the carrier element so that the vibration damper is prevented from falling out of said mounting assembly when the vibration damper is connected to said carrier element.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/491,710Filed 24 Jul 2006
Priority: DE 10 2005 035 25625 Jul 2005
Published: US 2007/0023983 A11 Feb 2007
Granted: 12 May 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B60G 15/068
Characterised by the mounting on the vehicle body or chassis of the spring and damper unit: specially adapted for MacPherson strut-type suspension
B60G 2202/312
With the spring arranged around the damper, e.g. MacPherson strut: the spring being a wound spring
B60G 2204/4404
Centering or positioning means: retainers for holding a fixing element, e.g. bushing, nut, bolt etc., until it is tightly fixed in position
B60G 2204/45021
Using resilient buffer: for limiting upper mount movement of a McPherson strut