Patent ID: 6761499
Filing Date: 2004-07-13
Classification: F16C,Y10T

Abstract:
A bearing shell for ball-and-socket joints or ball sleeve joints, the bearing shell comprising:an inner hollow spherically designed bearing surface; and an outer cylindrically designed support surface, with which the bearing shell can be inserted into a joint housing, the bearing surface and the support surface having a multipart design with at least two shell parts that can be detachably coupled with one another by a clamping device, wherein the parting plane between the half shells extends in a direction of a central longitudinal axis of the bearing shell, said clamping device including at least one pin projecting beyond a respective parting surface of the half shells and at least one corresponding recess arranged in the respective other half shell, said clamping device both rotationally and laterally fixing one of said shell parts with another of said shell parts.