Patent ID: 7229087

Claim:
A rear axle assembly for an automobile including a vehicle body, having two longitudinally extended arms for supporting rear wheels of the automobile, connected together by a cross member attached to the vehicle body by front and rear legs connected to the vehicle body by elastic connections and mounted so as to pivot at corresponding ends of the cross member around a transverse axis, comprising a support part rigidly attached essentially in the middle of the cross member; and two essentially transverse retaining bars, each of which has one end attached to the support part by articulation and its opposite end attached to a corresponding wheel pivot by articulation, each retaining bar being arranged in such a way as to have a variable length depending on the vertical oscillations of a corresponding wheel, wherein the support part has a body for attachment to the cross member and a piece, essentially in the form of a stirrup for support of articulations of the two retaining bars, which is integral with the attachment body and situated to the rear of the cross member.