Patent ID: 7370872
Filing Date: 2008-05-13
Classification: B60B,B60G

Abstract:
1. A rigid vehicle axle comprising an axle beam consisting of two halves with axle journals as wheel carriers arranged at the ends thereof, and at least two trailing arms rigidly fixed to the axle beam, each half of the vehicle rigid axle—as viewed from the middle of the axle—comprising an axle tube section ( 1 ), a trailing arm section ( 10 ) and a wheel head section ( 40 ) arranged one after the other, and the wheel head section ( 40 ) comprising at least one axle journal ( 41 ) for carrying a wheel, the axle tube sections ( the axle tube having an average wall thickness of less than the average wall thickness of the trailing arms section ( the axle tube sections ( the axle tube and the trailing arm sections (