Patent ID: 7357590
Filing Date: 2008-04-15
Classification: F16C,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A ball-and-socket joint comprising: a joint housing having an inside contour shaped as a truncated cone; a bearing shell disposed in an interior space of the joint housing, said bearing shell having an outside contour shaped as a truncated cone and a continuous circumferential surface recess extending annularly in an equatorial region of the ball, said recess located on a side of the bearing shell facing the housing; a ball pin defining an axial direction and having disposed thereon a ball, said ball slidingly received in the bearing shell, a locking ring having an inner clamping edge, said locking ring disposed on an end face of the joint housing and contacting the bearing shell, thereby fixing a position of the bearing shell relative to the joint housing in the axial direction of the ball pin, wherein the bearing shell passes through the locking ring and is freely positionable in the joint housing in the axial direction of the ball pin before being locked in position by the inner clamping edge cutting into the outside contour of the bearing shell.