Rubber bearing comprising a reinforcing element

US6755405B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG · DE

Inventors

• Helmut Kammel · Damme, DE
• Bernd Kümper · Rahden, DE
• Jim Robinson · Chesapeake, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 30, 2002
• Grant date: Jun 29, 2004
• Expiry date: Jul 27, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16F1/3873
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A rubber bearing with an approximately cylindrical reinforcing element made of one or more insert parts, with each part extending in the axial direction of the bearing. The one or more insert parts are vulcanized into an elastomer of a bearing body between an inner and outer surface of the bearing body. The one or more insert parts having adjacent edges extending axially parallel with a non-straight, mutually complementary edge profile. An intermediate space formed between the adjacent edges of the one or more parts is filled with the elastomer of the bearing body.