Patent ID: 8191484

Claim:
A rotation impeding device for a vehicle having a first vehicle component comprising a running gear and a second vehicle component comprising a wagon body supported thereon the rotation impeding device comprising a friction element carrier for a first friction element, wherein the friction element carrier is connectable to the running gear or the wagon body in a manner torsionally rigid about a height axis of the vehicle such that the wagon body is supported on the running gear via the friction element, wherein the wagon body is rotatable relative to the running gear under a friction-laden relative movement between the first friction element and a second friction element impeding a rotation about the height axis, a force generating device with a contact element, wherein the force generating device is connectable to the vehicle component carrying the friction element carrier in such a way that it acts, via the contact element, on the friction element carrier to generate a contact force between the first friction element and the second friction element, wherein the friction element carrier comprises at least one carrier arm with a first end area and a second end area, located at a distance thereof in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the carrier arm, wherein the carrier arm, in the first end area, comprises a connection area adapted to connect to the vehicle component carrying the friction element carrier; and the carrier arm carries the first friction element in an area located at a distance from the first end area in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the carrier arm.