Patent ID: 6382648
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: B60G,F16F

Abstract:
A spring strut for a vehicle, comprising:an oscillation damper with an essentially cylindrical container, and a piston rod guided in the container; a spring-plate connected to the container; a further spring plate; a coil spring which surrounds the container and the piston rod and is held and guided between the spring-plate connected to the container and the further spring-plate, each of the spring-plates having a spring receptacle adapted to a final turn of the coil spring; and a flexible pad arranged in the spring receptacle of each spring-plate and connected to the spring-plate so as to be between the final turn and the spring receptacle for noise damping, the flexible pad being a component of disk-shaped design which is flat on both sides and the connection to the spring-plate is effected by a form-locking engagement using at least one projection and at least one aperture, the flexible pad being adapted to a surface of the spring receptacle of the spring-plate by the prestressed coil spring, the flexible pad having a projection formed as an inward-pointing tongue which engages in a corresponding aperture in the spring-plate.