Abstract: A hinged support or the like for the articulated connection of chassis parts in motor vehicles, in which a section connecting bearing eyes at the ends to one another is designed as a hollow section and is assembled from parts which are manufactured as shell-shaped open parts and are connected to one another after manufacture to form a closed hollow section.

Abstract: An axle suspension for rigid axles in vehicles, especially utility vehicles, in which at least one longitudinal control arm is arranged on each side of the vehicle approximately at the same level. The control arms extend in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle and connect the vehicle axle vertically movably to the vehicle body. At a different level, a triangle pull rod is articulated to the vehicle axle and to the vehicle body centrally and laterally offset. A stabilizer bar including a torsion spring bar counteracting lateral tilting movements by torsional stresses is also provided. The stabilizer bar is arranged directly between the longitudinal control arms. The ends of the stabilizer bar are connected to the longitudinal control arms in the manner of a universal joint, but rotating in unison.

Abstract: An engine mount with hydraulic damping for motor vehicles, which has at least two chambers, which are provided with at least partially elastically deformable walls in a housing and are filled with a damping fluid, and a common wall of the chambers with a valve plate, in which a cage with a decoupling diaphragm made of an elastically deformable material arranged in it is provided. This decoupling diaphragm includes a round disk with constant cross section and is arranged in the cage without axial clearance, at right angles to the common chamber. The openings of the cage have a cross section tapering in the outward direction from the decoupling diaphragm due to oblique limiting surfaces.

Abstract: A shifting device for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle, in which a selector lever is pivotable within a shift gate around a selection axis located deeper than the said shift gate and is held by spring forces acting at right angles to the longitudinal direction of the shift gate against locking elements. The locking elements are laterally offset in relation to one another and are associated with the shift positions, in the shift positions P, R, N, and D. The selection axis of the selector lever is mounted in a universal joint-like manner in an intermediate part. The intermediate part is mounted pivotably around the selection axis on a housing that is a rigid part of the body, and--in the auxiliary shift position (M) for stepwise, manual shifting in the shift position (D) associated with automatic shifting--the selector lever is pivotable manually in relation to the intermediate part around a drag bearing located higher than the selection axis in the direction of the selection movement.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a clamping device for an adjustable steering column in motor vehicles, in which a tubular housing adjustable in the direction of its longitudinal axis can be clamped between two holders rigidly connected to the vehicle body by a clamping mechanism with a clamping bolt, which passes through the two holders at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the tubular housing and can be actuated by a handle. A locking member is additionally provided, which is supported by an abutment fixed axially at the clamping bolt, on the one hand, and has a sword edge directed obliquely downward toward a component rigidly connected to the tubular housing, forming an angle with the longitudinal axis of the clamping bolt, on the other hand.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a safety system for steering shafts, in which shaft parts non-rotatably engage each other and are secured against relative displacement in relation to one another by injected shear materials, which are designed for maximum axial forces in the steering shaft and engage recesses on the outer circumference of the inner shaft part and on the inner circumference of the outer shaft part. Such a safety system has an at least double telescoping shaft system, in which at least two shaft parts are connected to one another by an intermediate shaft part, and the inner shaft parts engage a radial expansion of the corresponding outer shaft part, and a cross section of the shear material designed for shearing is arranged between the shaft parts in the area of the expansion.

Abstract: An upper MacPherson strut bearing for wheel suspensions in motor vehicles, including a metallic housing, whose vertical section is pot-shaped. A rubber buffer is arranged in the housing, and a support piece, which can be connected to a shock absorber and which extends with radially extending projections into the rubber buffer is rigidly connected to the rubber buffer. A radially extending housing edge forms an abutment for an annular spring buffer made of rubber, against which the top end of a coil spring of the MacPherson strut, which coil spring surrounds the shock absorber, is supported. The radially extending housing edge is connected to a cover plate of the housing, which can be fastened to a part of the motor vehicle and covers the rubber buffer on its top side. A collar edge radially guiding the shock absorber is located on the underside of the housing.

Abstract: A crash system for the steering column in a motor vehicle, in which two tube ends are connected to one another by an insert which clamps the two tube ends to one another up to a predetermined axial load. This insert is a tolerance ring, whose cross-sectional profile is compressible. An adjustable clamping device surrounds the outer tube end and acts radially.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a ball-and-socket joint for motor vehicles, in which a joint ball, provided at the end of a pin, is inserted, with a bearing shell surrounding the joint ball, into a pot-shaped housing and is held by a closing ring. The closing ring can be connected to the open housing edge. One end of a gasket is adhesively connected, preferably by vulcanization, to the cylindrical inner jacket surface as well as to an adjoining area of the outer surface of the closing ring, which area extends at right angles to the inner jacket surface.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a motor vehicle, in which a gearshift lever and a hand brake lever are arranged in the center of the vehicle, and the hand brake lever, designed as a short-arm lever, is mounted pivotably around a transverse axis, and cooperates with a progressively acting leverage-increasing mechanism. The gearshift lever and the hand brake lever are arranged next to each other in a common housing at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.

Abstract: A ball-and-socket joint for chassis parts in motor vehicles, in which a joint ball provided on a pivot pin is mounted within a housing in a sliding shell made of plastic, wherein the outer jacket of the sliding shell is tightly enclosed by the inner jacket of the housing. To compensate manufacturing tolerances, a material, which is highly elastic compared with the material of the sliding shell, is arranged in a recess on the outer jacket of the sliding shell (4) at least at points of increased load by the joint ball.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a radially and axially elastic slide bush bearing for chassis parts in motor vehicles with thrust bearings between an inner pipe (1) and an outer bush (2) and with an elastomer body (4) surrounding the outer bush (2). To obtain a one-part design, a thrust bearing transmitting axial forces, consisting of a disk (8 and 9) and an abutment (10 and 11), is provided with a sealing lip (12 and 13) surrounding this thrust bearing at both axial bearing ends, wherein the thrust bearing has a smaller diameter compared with the diameter of the bearing eye in the chassis part (5) at one bearing end in the external diameter of the sealing lip (13) axially surrounding the thrust bearing.

Abstract: A plastic bearing for stabilizers in motor vehicles, which includes two half shells, which are connected to one another in one piece on a longitudinal side by a web, and whose longitudinal edges touch each other in the assembled state. The two half shells have, on the side of their web connection, one of two guide elements, which guide the half shells into the predetermined closed position during assembly. As a result, the two half shells can be vulcanized in a mold in a position in which they are swung open by 180.degree..

Abstract: A sleeve rubber spring for mounts in a motor vehicle, in which a rubber body is arranged between an inner tube and an outer tube and has at least two chambers, which are filled with a fluid damping agent and are connected to one another through at least one overflow channel. A shutoff structure is provided including an axially extending seal, which opens only in the case of a predetermined pressure difference in the chambers. This seal of the shutoff structure of the overflow channel includes at least two sealing lips, which are separated from one another, have a hook-type profile in their cross section with a radial undercut and are deformable radially to the central axis of the sleeve rubber spring.

Abstract: A rack-and-pinion steering is presented, in which an at least partially hollow cylindrical rack is used to ventilate and evacuate the bellows and in which at least one evacuation groove is prepared in the connection pin of the ball joint housing. The evacuation groove feeds or removes the air from the interior of the bellows via the hollow cylindrical rack corresponding to the direction of movement of the steering system.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a plain bearing for chassis parts in motor vehicles, in which a sliding layer, which is made of plastic and has lubrication bore reliefs on its outer jacket, is sprayed in a firmly adhering manner onto a metallic inner part in a mold, and an elastomer body arranged in a metallic receiving bush surrounds the inner part with the sliding layer in a slidingly movable manner. Recesses, whose side wall has a profile undercut in the direction of removal from the mold, are provided on the circumference of the inner part.

Abstract: A ball joint and a work process for preparing such a ball joint are described, in which the housing is prepared in one piece by a sheet metal shaping process. An edge bead, which is used to close the housing by a cover, is prepared by material deformation on the outer circumference of the housing. A groove for receiving the sealing bellows, which groove is likewise located on the outer circumference of the housing, is formed during the shaping process, so that machining of the housing is not necessary.

Abstract: A telescopic steering column for motor vehicles which contains a guide in the intermediate steering shaft to compensate the nonuniformity of the rotary movement. The guide rotates the two shaft parts of the intermediate steering shaft, which are axially displaceable in one another, so that the fork position of the joints changes with the set position of the steering column.

Abstract: A centered double cardan joint for steering shafts in motor vehicles, in which the shaft ends (1, 2), which are nonrotatably connected to one another in the joint, are mounted movably in a universal joint around two articulated axes that enclose a right angle with one another and with the longitudinal axis of the shaft in a housing, which connects the two universal joints to one another, by journals (5 through 8 and 10 through 13). To make it possible to manufacture a joint that eliminates vibrations at low cost, each of the two universal joints is provided in a ring (3, 4), which surrounds the corresponding shaft end (1, 2) at a radially spaced location, and in which the shaft end (1, 2) is mounted movably around the journals (5 through 8) arranged in one articulated axis, and which is mounted movably in a housing made of a pipe section (9) by journals arranged in the other articulated axis.

Abstract: A mounting for a shift lever (1) for the mechanical remote control of a selector shaft of a gear change box in motor vehicles, in which the shift lever (1) is mounted pivotably around a selection axis and around a shifting axis, which is at right angles thereto, by means of a spherical part (2) of a universal joint in a bearing box (4) in a housing (3) that is a rigid part of the body, and is connected by coupling members (7, 16) to a sliding selector shaft of a gear change box. The coupling members for transmitting the movement of the shift lever to the sliding selector shaft are connected, articulated around an axle (9, 12) each, to the spherical part (2) of a universal joint, wherein the axle extends in one pivoting plane of the shift lever (1) at right angles to the pivot axis of the shift lever in the other direction of pivoting.