Patent ID: 8684621
Filing Date: 2014-04-01
Classification: B60G,F16C,F16J,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A ball joint, comprising a joint housing having a recess, a ball stud having a ball head, a sealing bellows having a sealing seat on the housing side and a sealing seat on the stud side in the form of a bellows mouth which is adapted to be brought into contact with the ball stud, a bellows body of the sealing bellows extending between the sealing seat on the housing side and the bellows mouth, a joint socket, the ball head being accommodated for swiveling motion within the joint socket, and the joint socket being inserted in the recess of the joint housing, at least one locking member which is arranged on an outside of the joint socket opposite to the ball head and cooperates with a rim of the recess of the joint housing, and a retaining member which, in the assembled condition of the ball joint, is in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the at least one locking member so that the at least one locking member is thereby held in engagement with the rim of the recess of the joint housing and the joint socket is captively secured in the recess of the joint housing, the retaining member being connected with the joint socket in a pole portion thereof wherein the retaining member has a central recess, the recess having a locking surface defining a shoulder, wherein the joint socket includes a projecting fastening pin in the pole portion, the fastening pin being formed as a snap hook having undercuts which are configured to be brought into engagement the shoulder of the recess of the retaining member such that the retaining member is connected with an interlocking fit with the joint socket in the pole portion thereof.