Patent ID: 6879240
Filing Date: 2005-04-12
Classification: B60G,F16C

Abstract:
1. A ball-and-socket joint for a motor vehicle, the ball-and-socket joint comprising: a ball-and-socket joint housing provided with a joint opening; a ball pivot having a joint ball and a pin, said ball pivot being mounted with said joint ball rotatably and pivotably in a hollow-ball-shaped bearing surface in said ball-and-socket joint housing and projecting with said pin through said joint opening out of said ball-and-socket joint housing along a ball pivot central axis and said joint ball having an antipodal surface opposite of said projecting pin; a two-pole field transducer provided with two poles along a line perpendicular to said ball pivot central axis and directly on said antipodal surface, so as to pivot and rotate with the joint ball; at least two field sensors arranged in the area in or on said ball-and-socket joint housing at a distance from one another at least on a plane which is one of parallel and equal with respect to a meridian plane defined by a large circle on the hollow-ball-shaped bearing surface running at right angles to a bearing longitudinal axis running central along the length of said ball-and-socket joint housing and interacting with the field produced by said field transducer.