Motor vehicle wheel suspension

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11072215-B2
Application number	US-201715790264-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 23, 2017
Priority date	Oct 24, 2016
Publication date	Jul 27, 2021
Grant date	Jul 27, 2021

Abstract

A motor vehicle wheel suspension having a wheel carrier connected to the vehicle body or frame. The suspension having a lower transverse link. The wheel carrier connected to the lower transverse carrier at two connection locations. A first connection location on a first side wall of the wheel carrier and second connection location on a second side wall of the wheel carrier. The first connection location including a connector connected to both the lower transverse and the wheel carrier. The second connection location including a connection between the wheel carrier and the lower transverse link.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle comprising:
a wheel carrier wherein the wheel carrier connects to a motor vehicle frame using an upper camber link, a lower transverse link and a lateral tie rod comprising:
the wheel carrier having a first side wall and a second side wall;
a planar element extending between the first side wall of the wheel carrier and the lower transverse link, the planar element pivotally connected to the lower transverse link at a first joint and pivotally connected to the first side wall at a second joint;
the second side wall pivotally connected to the lower transverse link at a third joint;
wherein the first joint and the third joint include a common pin; and
the lower transverse link has a tubular region through which the common pin extends between the planar element and the second side wall.

2. The wheel suspension of claim 1 wherein the wheel carrier includes a receiving portion formed by a recess in the wheel carrier, wherein said first and second side walls are connected by a web.

3. The wheel suspension of claim 1 wherein in an operative state, the first joint is above the second joint.

4. The wheel suspension of claim 1 including a damper unit located downstream of a wheel center when viewed in a forward travel direction.

5. The wheel suspension of claim 4 wherein the damper unit connects to the wheel carrier.

6. The wheel suspension of claim 1 including at least one spring unit connected to the wheel carrier.

7. A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle comprising:
a wheel carrier wherein the wheel carrier connects to a motor vehicle frame using an upper camber link, a lower transverse link and a lateral tie rod comprising:
the wheel carrier having a first side wall and a second side wall;
a planar element extending between the first side wall of the wheel carrier and the lower transverse link, the planar element pivotally connected to the lower transverse link at a first joint and the planar element pivotally connected to the first side wall of the wheel carrier at a second joint;
the second side wall pivotally connected to the lower transverse link at a third joint;
a damper unit located downstream of a wheel center when viewed in a forward travel direction;
a horizontally extending stabilizer rod connected to the lower transverse link by a downward strut; and
the upper camber link, when viewed in a forward travel direction, is arranged downstream of the wheel center between the damper unit and the downward strut.

8. A wheel suspension comprising:
a transverse link;
a wheel carrier having first and second side walls;
a connector pivotally and directly connected to said first side wall;
a pin pivotally and directly connected on one end to said connector with an opposite end of the pin pivotally and directly connected to said second side wall; and
said transverse link having a tubular region through which said pin extends.

9. The wheel suspension of claim 8 including first and second planar elements, each of the first and second planar elements having first and second ends, the first end of the first and second planar elements pivotally connected to said first side wall and the second ends of the first and second planar elements pivotally connected to said transverse link.

10. The wheel suspension of claim 9 wherein said first and second planar elements are disposed on opposite sides of said first side wall.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Drotar Timothy
• Hintzen Ralf
• Mainz Daniel
• Zandbergen Paul
• Wolf-Monheim Friedrich Peter

Classifications

• B60G7/008

  Attaching arms to unsprung part of vehicle (B60G7/005, B60G7/006 take precedence) · CPC title

• B60G2204/148

  on the unsprung part of the vehicle, e.g. wheel knuckle or rigid axle · CPC title

• B60G3/20 Primary

  all arms being rigid · CPC title

• B60G2200/18

  Multilink suspensions, e.g. elastokinematic arrangements · CPC title