Ball joint

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9394936-B2
Application number	US-201414311549-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 23, 2014
Priority date	Oct 27, 2010
Publication date	Jul 19, 2016
Grant date	Jul 19, 2016

Abstract

A ball joint includes a ball member, a socket member, and a resilient pressing mechanism. The ball member couples with the socket member. The resilient pressing mechanism is positioned between the ball member and the socket member, applying compression to cause the ball member to tightly contact the socket member. The resilient pressing mechanism includes a plurality of springs positioned in parallel between the ball member and the socket member.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A ball joint, comprising:
a ball member;
a socket member coupled with the ball member; and
a resilient pressing mechanism positioned between the ball member and the socket member,
wherein the resilient pressing mechanism applies compression to tightly mate the ball member to the socket member; the resilient pressing mechanism comprises four springs positioned in parallel between the ball member and the socket member, and the four springs are positioned equidistantly circumferentially;
wherein the ball member comprises a head and a first flange connected to the head; the socket member comprises a socket coupled with the head, and a second flange connected to the socket the head is received in the socket, and the first flange is positioned opposite to the second flange; the second flange forms an oblique connecting surface on a side away from the socket, and the oblique connecting surface is oblique to the first flange.

2. The ball joint of claim 1 , wherein two ends of each of the springs interconnect the first flange and the second flange respectively.

3. The ball joint of claim 2 , wherein the resilient pressing mechanism further comprises a plurality of fixing rings positioned on a periphery portion of the first flange and the second flange, each of the two ends of the spring corporately forms a hook corresponding to each of the fixing rings.

4. The ball joint of claim 1 , wherein the ball member defines a through oil hole with one end of the oil hole extending to a surface of the ball member matching to the socket member, and another end of the oil hole being sealed by a sealing member.

Assignees

• Hongfujin Prec Ind Shenzhen
• Hon Hai Prec Ind Co Ltd

Inventors

• Long Bo

Classifications

• Y10T403/32811

  Spring-biased · CPC title

• B25J9/0057 Primary

  with kinematics chains of the type spherical-prismatic-spherical · CPC title

• Y10T403/32713

  Elastomerically biased or backed components · CPC title

• Y10T74/20348

  Planar surface with orthogonal movement and rotation · CPC title

• B25J17/0216

  comprising a stewart mechanism · CPC title