Patent ID: 7478802

Claim:
A pivoting bearing, for chassis components of motor vehicles, the bearing comprising: a tubular joint housing forming a cylindrical interior space; a metallic internal part and an elastomer body accommodated in said interior space, said elastomer body surrounding a portion of said internal part and being arranged adheringly thereon; stop rings, said elastomer body being axially pretensioned in the axial longitudinal direction of the pivoting bearing between said stop rings, said stop rings being connected with the elastomer body in a firmly adhering manner, said stop rings forming bearing shell portions; and projections projecting into said interior space, wherein at least one of said projections is formed by a spring lock washer inserted into a radial depression of said interior space of said joint housing, said spring lock washer being in contact via a lateral surface thereof directed toward a center of the interior space with an axial outer side of said one of said stop rings cooperating with said spring lock washer, said axial outer side of said stop ring cooperating with the spring lock washer having a recess extending circumferentially radially at the outer edge of the stop ring and having a radial limiting surface with an axial extent overlapping an axial extent of an inner peripheral surface of said spring lock washer, said recess being engaged by the spring lock washer in the mounted state of the pivoting bearing with said spring lock washer extending into said radial depression with a free space between said inner peripheral surface of said spring lock washer and said radial limiting surface being less than a radial depth of said radial depression.