Patent ID: 8733498

Claim:
A housing, comprising: a jacket enclosing a housing interior space in circumferential direction; and at least one preloading device which is arranged in the housing interior space, which supports itself on a first supporting region of the jacket on the inside on the jacket subject to a first preload orientated towards the outside and which supports itself on a second supporting region of the jacket spaced from the first supporting region on the jacket on the inside subject to a second preload oriented towards the outside; wherein the housing interior space transversely to the axial direction has a round, flattened cross section, so that a curvature radius of the jacket varies in the circumferential direction, wherein the two supporting regions in circumferential regions are arranged with different curvature radii; and wherein the second supporting region is arranged in a second circumferential region which has a smaller curvature radius than a first circumferential region, in which the first supporting region is arranged.