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US 9,429,186 B2Granted
Joint housing of a ball joint as well as method for mounting the joint housing on a carrier element
AssigneeTHK RHYTHM AUTOMOTIVE GmbH
InventorsUwe Forthaus, Lothar Schaumann, Harald Walter
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Abstract
A joint housing of a ball joint comprises a sheet-metal part for accommodating a ball head, which is substantially rotationally symmetrical with respect to a joint axis and includes a circumferential wall portion, wherein the circumferential wall portion includes a housing opening at an axial end, through which a joint pin can extend, wherein the sheet-metal part is formed with two layers at this axial end of the circumferential wall portion.
Claims5
A method for mounting a joint housing on a carrier element with the following steps:
- providing a joint housing of a ball joint that includes:
- a sheet-metal part for accommodating a ball head, which is substantially rotationally symmetrical with respect to a joint axis and includes a circumferential wall portion, wherein the circumferential wall portion includes a housing opening at an axial end, through which a joint pin can extend, wherein the sheet-metal part is formed with two folded layers at the axial end of the circumferential wall portion;
- providing a carrier element with an assembly opening;
- axially introducing the sheet-metal part of the joint housing into the assembly opening, until the circumferential wall portion thereof adjoins an edge of the assembly opening;
- plastically deforming the sheet-metal part such that it is positively or non-positively fixed at the carrier element.
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