Patent ID: 9562583
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: F16F,Y10T

Claim:
1. An elastic joint for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle, comprising: an inner armature; an outer armature surrounding the inner armature, wherein the armatures define an axial direction and two radial directions perpendicular to the axial direction as well as perpendicular to each other and disposed in a circumferential plane; and an elastomeric body comprising a first portion vulcanized to the inner armature and a second portion fixed to the outer armature for the mutual elastic retention of the inner armature and the outer armature, wherein the elastomeric body includes at least four connecting columns respectively extending from the inner armature to the outer armature wherein the at least four connecting columns are elastically deformable in the radial direction to elastically connect the inner armature to the outer armature and are spaced from one another along the elastomeric body such that the deformation of one of the at least four connecting columns does not affect the deformation behavior of any other one of the at least four connecting columns and wherein the at least four connecting columns are allocated to each other as pairs and one pair of the pairs of connecting columns is arranged circumferentially offset with respect to another pair of the pairs of connecting columns wherein the one pair of the pairs of connecting columns is disposed on one side of a central radial plane of the joint and the another pair of the pairs of connecting columns is disposed on the opposite side of the central radial plane.