Patent ID: 7073970

Claim:
A ball-and-socket joint for a rocker pendulum of a motor vehicle, the ball-and-socket joint comprising: a housing, which is open on at least one side and has an inner jacket surface with an interior space; a bearing shell inserted in said interior; a joint ball of a ball pivot accommodated in said bearing shell in a slidingly movable manner, said interior space having elevations and/or depressions along said inner jacket surface, said bearing shell being provided with an oversize in relation to said inner jacket surface and being inserted into said housing in a positive-locking manner with an outer surface of said bearing shell undergoing a partial plastic deformation, wherein said inner jacket surface has pressure zones located on at least two annular surfaces, which are arranged at spaced locations from one another and whose centers or central axes are located on a central longitudinal axis of said housing, said pressure zones shortening the effective length of said elevations and/or depressions.