Bearing assembly for wheel hub driven by a universal joint

US4571099A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Uni-Cardan AG · DE

Inventors

• Jochen Balken · Gettorf, DE
• Werner Krude
• Michel A. Orain · Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 24, 1983
• Grant date: Feb 18, 1986
• Expiry date: Oct 24, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16D2003/22326
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bearing assembly for a wheel hub driven from a universal joint including an outer race attached to the wheel carrier of a motor vehicle having first and second outer bearing tracks thereon and an inner race having first and second inner bearing tracks thereon, the first bearing tracks being formed by a tubular projection of the universal joint and the second bearing tracks being formed by a tubular projection of the wheel hub. First and second bearing elements are interposed respectively betwen the first inner and outer tracks and the second inner and outer tracks and a sleeve extending within inner juxtaposed surfaces formed by the first and second tubular projections operates to place the universal joint in torque-transmitting engagement with the wheel hub and to restrain the tubular projections against relative axial displacement.