Patent ID: 7195416
Filing Date: 2007-03-27
Classification: F16C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A ball-and-socket joint for motor vehicles, the ball-and-socket joint comprising: a joint ball and a pivot pin; a housing part formed of a shaped metal tube and formed with a top end edge surface defining an opening and an opposite end edge surface defining a pivot pin opening, said housing part having an outer peripheral surface at an outside of the housing part extending from said top end edge surface to said opposite end edge surface and having an inner peripheral surface at an inside of said housing part opposite said outer peripheral surface, said inner peripheral surface extending from said top end edge surface to said opposite end edge surface; and a molded material part comprising an integral single molded piece molded on said housing part outer peripheral surface to form an outer molded material bellows receiving functional surface on said outer peripheral surface and opposite said inner peripheral surface and molded on said inner peripheral surface to form an inner molded material functional surface on said inner peripheral surface to form at least a part of a joint ball pivot bearing surface on said inside of said housing part and opposite said outer peripheral surface, at least a part of said housing part being arranged, in a radial direction, between said outer molded material functional surface and said inner molded material functional surface.