Patent ID: 6857810

Claim:
A ball-and-socket-joint for a motor vehicle or for a chassis of the motor vehicle, the ball-and-socket joint comprising: a ball-and-socket joint housing provided with a joint opening; a bearing shell; a ball pivot with a joint ball and a pivot, said joint ball being mounted rotatably and pivotably in said bearing shell arranged in said ball-and-socket joint housing, said pivot protruding from said ball-and-socket joint housing through said joint opening and said bearing shell being divided into at least two separate bearing shell parts, said joint ball comprising a ceramic material and said bearing shell comprising a ceramic material, wherein a first of said two bearing shell parts is arranged in the area of said ball-and-socket joint housing facing said joint opening with respect to a meridian plane defined by a great circle extending at right angles to a longitudinal axis of the bearing shell on said joint ball, and said second bearing shell part is arranged in an area of said ball-and-socket joint housing facing away from said joint opening with respect to said meridian plane.