Wheel suspension for motor vehicles with a wheel-guiding leaf spring

US6390486B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Global Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

• Joachim Boes · Riegelsberg, DE
• Michael Frank Schmidt · Scottsdale, US
• Wolfram Seibert · Darmstadt, DE
• Pim van der Jagt · Höngen, DE
• Roger Graaf · Vaals, NL

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 1, 2000
• Grant date: May 21, 2002
• Expiry date: Sep 1, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60G2206/124
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In order to limit rolling movements of the vehicle, spring arms are formed on those ends of the leaf spring, arranged transversely to the vehicle, on which the wheel carriers are articulated, said spring arms being connected in a force-transmitting manner to the transverse leaf spring. The spring arms point toward the longitudinal mid-plane of the vehicle and run at an acute angle to the transverse leaf spring. Since the spring designed in this way is a universally available structural part (the spring arms running at an angle may also be produced separately and then be connected non-positively to the transverse leaf spring), the two wheels are connected to one another directly and the triangular shape formed by the spring arms running at an angle gives rise to a function similar to that of a transverse link.