IP Library Granted Patent US 8,696,003
Granted Patent B2
US 8,696,003 · App. 13/276,633 · Granted Apr 15, 2014

Front axle support with arrangement of a steering gear and a front axle stabilizer

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Patent No.
US 8,696,003
App. No.
13/276,633
Granted
Apr 15, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A front axle support is provided with arrangement of a steering gear and a front axle stabilizer. The front axle support has receptacles for fastening the steering gear and for fastening the front axle stabilizer with screw connections. The steering gear and the front axle stabilizer are fixed on a common fitting. The common fitting is disposed with a common screw connection on the front axle support.

Claims (21)

1. A front axle support, comprising:

a steering gear comprising a casing with a fastening flange, the fastening flange including a through opening in which a first elastomer element is disposed;

a front axle stabilizer;

a plurality of receptacles configured to fasten the steering gear and further configured to fasten the front axle stabilizer with screw connections;

a common fitting on which the steering gear and the front axle stabilizer are fixedly disposed with a common screw connection on the front axle support, the fastening flange configured to form the common fitting so that steering forces of the steering gear act in a y-direction transverse to a direction of travel via the common fitting on the front axle support; and

a clip connected detachably to the common fitting that partially surrounds the front axle stabilizer,

wherein a metal sleeve with a first through hole is disposed in the first elastomer element, which is aligned onto a second through hole in the front axle support,

wherein the clip has a first end and a second end, and

wherein the first end of the clip is formed as a cover disk.

2. The front axle support according to claim 1 , wherein the common fitting with the fastening flange is configured to form a cast-on part of the casing of the steering gear.

3. The front axle support according to claim 1 , wherein a first inside diameter of the first through hole of the metal sleeve is greater than a second inside diameter of the second through hole in the front axle support.

4. The front axle support according to claim 1 , wherein the first end is configured to cover the first through hole of the metal sleeve.

5. The front axle support according to claim 1 , wherein the first end of the clip with a stress bolt secures a press fit of the metal sleeve of the first elastomer element with the first through hole on the front axle support.

6. The front axle support according to claim 1 , wherein the first end comprises a cage nut on the cover disk that engages with a stress bolt.

7. The front axle support according to claim 1 , wherein at a second end, the clip comprises a hole by which the second end of the clip is fixed on the front axle support via a screw connection between the second end of the clip and the front axle support.

8. The front axle support according to claim 1 , wherein a stress bolt is guided through the first through hole and the second through hole.

9. The front axle support according to claim 8 , wherein an inside diameter of the second through hole is adapted to an outside diameter of a threaded attachment of the stress bolt.

10. The front axle support according to claim 1 , further comprising a second elastomer element disposed between the clip and the front axle stabilizer, the second elastomer element completely surrounds a cross-section of the front axle stabilizer.

11. The front axle support according to claim 10 ,

wherein the second elastomer element of the front axle stabilizer is clamped between an outer edge of the common fitting, an upper side region of the front axle support, and the clip, and

wherein the clip secures the front axle stabilizer on the front axle support against displacement by vertical forces in a z-direction.

Assignments (3)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Nov 7, 2014
From: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
To: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Reel/Frame 034186/0776 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Jun 28, 2012
From: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
To: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Reel/Frame 028458/0184 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 30, 2011
From: EICHELHARD, OLIVER; UHLENBRUCH, LUTZ
To: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
Reel/Frame 027461/0940 →