Patent ID: 9534627
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: B60J,F16B,F16C,Y10T

Claim:
1. A bearing arrangement, comprising a carrier device; and a bearing socket rotatably supporting a component on the carrier device, wherein the bearing socket includes a sleeve fixed in a corresponding recess of the carrier device and which delimits with a cylindrical peripheral wall an inner space for receiving a bearing journal of the component, wherein the sleeve includes at least a first, inner catch element securing the bearing journal in an axial direction in the sleeve and a second, outer catch element securing the sleeve in an axial direction in the recess of the carrier device, wherein the first catch element is formed from a catch flap forming a portion of the cylindrical peripheral wall of the sleeve and which has at an end-face end thereof a catch projection engaging an annular groove of the bearing journal, wherein the second catch element is formed from a catch tongue forming a portion of the cylindrical peripheral wall of the sleeve, said catch tongue having a hooked portion engaging the carrier device, a slot separating the catch elements such that the catch elements define free ends of the sleeve that can be independently flexed, wherein the bearing journal has at a periphery thereof at least one assembly and disassembly recess extending axially from the groove having a width in a peripheral direction at least substantially corresponding to a width of the catch tongue in a peripheral direction such that the catch tongue may be flexed inwardly into the at least one assembly and disassembly recess when the socket and bearing are inserted in the recess of the carrier device.