Steerable wheel suspension arrangement

US4522418A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Struck · Winnenden, DE
• Karl-Heinz Richter · Weingarten, DE
• Michael Klein · Waiblingen, DE
• Ulrich Ruth · Stuttgart, DE
• Walter Ulke · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 3, 1983
• Grant date: Jun 11, 1985
• Expiry date: May 3, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D7/16
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In motor vehicles, in particular passenger cars possessing an axle or axles with steerable wheels, the steering-gear box is conventionally located asymmetrically with respect to the center-line. The result of this on the steering linkage is that the linkage part-sections between the steering-gear box and each of the wheels are of different design. This asymmetry can give rise to differences in the wear of the tires on these wheels, and is advantageously avoided according to this invention by making the overall stiffness values of the two part-sections identical, irrespective of the design-differences.