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Granted Patent B2
US 10,792,969 · App. 16/162,817 · Granted Oct 6, 2020

Longitudinal leaf spring device for suspension of a motor vehicle body

Inventor: Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim (Aachen NRW, DE)
Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
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Patent No.
US 10,792,969
App. No.
16/162,817
Granted
Oct 6, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

The disclosure relates to a longitudinal leaf spring device for suspension of a body of a motor vehicle. and the longitudinal leaf spring device comprises a longitudinally formed leaf spring element and a coupling device that mechanically couples the leaf spring element to a motor vehicle axle. According to the disclosure, a holder device is provided that has a base holder element for fixed connection to a vehicle chassis and a suspension adjustment element that faces the leaf spring element and is fixedly connected to the base holder element. In this case, the leaf spring element is connected in a front region, fixedly to the base holder element, and the front region is provided to come into mechanical bearing with the suspension adjustment element in at least one operating state.

Claims (14)

1. A vehicle comprising:

a longitudinal leaf springs coupled to an axle; and

a holder having a base fixedly connected directly to a chassis of the vehicle and a suspension adjustment element fixedly connected to the base, wherein an end of the leaf spring is fixedly connected directly to the base and a region of the leaf spring immediately adjacent to the end bears against the suspension adjustment element in an operating state of the vehicle.

2. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the suspension adjustment element has a surface that faces the leaf spring and has local radii of curvature arranged in a vertical plane, and wherein the local radii of curvature increase continuously as a function of a distance from a point of the surface adjacent to the end of the leaf spring.

3. The vehicle as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a part of the suspension adjustment element surface adjacent to the end of the leaf spring is in mechanical bearing with the leaf spring in a body-loaded state being only loaded with a body load such that a first angle is formed at a bearing point between the suspension adjustment element surface and a vertical direction that corresponds to a second angle formed at the bearing point between leaf spring surface that faces the suspension adjustment element surface and the vertical direction.

4. The vehicle as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the suspension adjustment element surface has, in a body-loaded state, a minimum separation distance from the leaf spring that increases continuously in a direction extending away from the end of the leaf spring.

5. The vehicle as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the leaf spring is composed of a composite material.

6. A suspension for a vehicle comprising:

a longitudinal leaf spring; and

a holder having a base fixedly connected directly to a vehicle chassis and a suspension adjustment element fixedly connected to the base, wherein an end of the longitudinal leaf spring is fixedly connected directly to the base and a region of the leaf spring immediately adjacent to the end bears against the suspension adjustment element in an operating state.

7. The suspension as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the suspension adjustment element has a surface that faces the leaf spring and has local radii of curvature arranged in a vertical plane, and wherein the radii of curvature increase continuously as a function of a distance from a point of the surface adjacent to the end of the leaf spring.

8. The suspension as claimed in claim 7 , wherein a front part of the suspension adjustment element surface is in mechanical bearing with the leaf spring in a body-loaded state being only loaded with a body load such that a first angle is formed at a bearing point between the suspension adjustment element surface and a vertical direction that corresponds to a second angle formed at the bearing point between a leaf spring surface that faces the suspension adjustment element surface and the vertical direction.

9. The suspension as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the suspension adjustment element surface has, in a body-loaded state, a minimum separation distance from the leaf spring that increases continuously in a direction extending away from the end of the leaf spring.

10. The suspension as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the leaf spring is composed of a composite material.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 18, 2018
From: WOLF-MONHEIM, FRIEDRICH PETER
To: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Reel/Frame 047221/0782 →
Priority Claims (1)
DE 10 2017 218 530 · Oct 17, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190111750A1 · Apr 18, 2019
Cited By (1)
US 12,576,723