Bearing eye for a leaf spring and leaf spring having a bearing eye

US11370259B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Jacopo Palandri · Aachen, DE
• Rainer Souschek · Aachen, DE
• Ralf Hintzen · Aachen, DE
• Alberto Girelli Consolaro · Aachen, DE
• Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim · Aachen, DE
• Bjoern Reff · Cologne, DE
• Thomas Gerhards · Niederzier, DE
• Paul Zandbergen · Plombières, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 25, 2020
• Grant date: Jun 28, 2022
• Expiry date: Nov 25, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60G2206/017
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bearing eye for a leaf spring for sprung support of a vehicle component on a vehicle body of a vehicle may include a through opening and a torsion spring therein, and a first catch. The bearing eye may provide pivotable mounting of the leaf spring on the vehicle body. The torsion spring is twistable relative to the bearing eye and connectable non-rotatably to the vehicle body. The first catch may project radially inwardly into the through opening, and the torsion spring has a second catch that projects radially outwardly into the through opening. The first and second catches may form a locking engagement which, depending on a degree of relative twisting between the bearing eye and the torsion spring, stops the relative twisting.