Bearing system for a first vehicle part, in particular designed as a driver's cab of a truck, on a second vehicle part, in particular designed as a vehicle frame

US6688413B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Firma Carl Freudenberg · DE

Inventors

• Arno Hamaekers · Gorxheimertal, DE
• Arnold Simuttis · Bad Kreuznach, DE
• Axel Rudolph · Bensheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 10, 2001
• Grant date: Feb 10, 2004
• Expiry date: Jul 6, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B62D33/067
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A bearing system for a first vehicle part, e.g., a driver's cab of a truck, on a second vehicle part, e.g., a vehicle frame, the first vehicle part being movable from a first position relative to the second vehicle part into a second position, includes a shaft about which the first vehicle part is rotatable from the first position relative to the second vehicle part into the second position, a first flexible bearing element disposed in a first shaft section of the shaft and a second flexible bearing element disposed in a second shaft section of the shaft. The first vehicle part is supported on the shaft in the first shaft section via a first supporting element and in the second shaft section via the flexible second bearing element. The shaft is supported in its first shaft section on the second vehicle part via the first flexible bearing element and in its second shaft section via a second supporting element.