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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7988379 | Joint mechanism An exemplary joint mechanism (100) includes a pivot shaft (10), a joint (20), a rotary arm (30), and two bearings (50). The pivot shaft (10) is non-rotatable relative to the joint (20). The joint (20) is receiv... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7686530 | Ball joint arrangement Socket housing has a hemispherical ball socket and a plurality of circumferentially spaced retaining tongues which extend toward an insertion opening, the tongues being radially pivotable to engage over the equator of a ball head. An outer part has an insertion regi... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7661902 | Ball and socket joint A ball and socket joint has high stability of the bearing shell and hence of the joint and reduces the transmitted structure-borne noise from the viewpoint of increased comfort with a bearing shell design with at least two layers. The inner layer is formed of a meta... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7367743 | Ball joint and a component with ball joint A ball joint with a housing wherein the housing has a weld section, which allows it to be welded to a chassis component. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7331733 | Rocker pendulum with integrated ball and socket joint A rocker pendulum for a motor vehicle, has an elongated, especially hollow basic body (1). The basic body (1, 11, 21, 31) has at least one section (1a, 11a, 21a, 31a), which forms or has a bearing... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322769 | Ball and socket joint A ball-and-socket joint for a motor vehicle, and especially for the chassis of the motor vehicle, with a ball-and-socket joint housing is provided with a joint opening (6), in which housing there is arranged a bearing shell (5). The ball-and-socket joi... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7322768 | Cover A cover includes a cover body, a grommet, and a projection. The cover body includes a socket disposed on one of the front and rear opposite surfaces. The grommet is deformable, is held in the socket, and includes a fitting hole. The projection projects from an insta... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318686 | High-performance ball socket A bearing shell for a ball and socket joint made of plastic as well as the ball and socket joint per se, wherein the bearing shell has first areas, which are subject to higher mechanical loads than the other areas of the bearing shell, wherein the material of the be... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7261488 | Ball socket ring seal A ball socket ring seal for use with a ball joint assembly eliminates the need for a boot or bellows to protect the ball joint against the environment. The ball socket ring seal of the invention is positioned between the ball and the socket at the point of contact b... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7226234 | Arrangement and method for connecting a rod end to a headed pin A connection for a rod and pin includes a two piece housing molded from hard plastic which defining a cavity enclosing a soft elastomeric isolator on one end of the rod. The housing pieces also define a pin receiving cavity with retention prongs which engage and hol... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7195416 | Ball-and-socket joint and ball-and-socket bearing shell A ball-and-socket joint for motor vehicles provided, with a joint ball and a pivot pin, a housing part formed of a shaped metal tube having a top end with an opening and having an opposite end with a pivot pin opening through which the pivot pin protrudes and with a... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7188563 | Piston arrangement of a hydraulic actuating device on motor vehicles A piston arrangement for master and/or slave cylinders of a hydraulic actuating device for clutch and/or brake systems on motor vehicles is disclosed. An insert is inserted into a recess of the piston up to a first stop, the insert having a ball seat and an expandab... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7163394 | Ball joint for a device used for accelerating jaw growth The invention relates to a ball joint for a device used for accelerating jaw growth, comprising a ball joint head and a ball joint socket that are fastened to the ends of a spring bar and to retaining elements connected to the teeth of the upper jaw and/or of the lo... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7144182 | Ball joint construction A ball joint having a housing with a cylindrical cavity that has an open receiving end and a closed retaining end receives a polymeric insert and a non-deformable insert therein. The polymeric insert has a cylindrical outer wall that extends upwardly from a base and... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7121757 | Process and device for mounting ball and socket joints with at least one connecting piece A process and a device are provided for mounting ball and socket joints with at least one connecting piece. A first ball and socket joint housing part (3a) is fed to a mounting device, a ball pivot (1), surrounded by a bearing shell (2), ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7082744 | Vehicle stabilizer system A stabilizer system provides leveling for a towed harvester vehicle. The harvester includes a hitch having a gimbal mounting to the tractor. The subframe is utilized to accommodate the gimbal and provides for utilizing the mass of the tractor to react to the stabili... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7080813 | Assembly for suspending an object from a sloped surface An assembly for suspending an object from a surface includes a down rod having a width, an upper end, and a lower end for engaging the object. A ball member is also provided. The ball member has a generally hemispherical body with a longitudinal axis and a bore exte... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7025315 | Geodesic mounting apparatus A multi-positionable mounting device that provides a substantially stable, load-bearing but relatively adjustable ball and socket mounting device. An interior surface of the socket is formed of first and second opposing part hemispherical socket portions that are re... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6976773 | Pivot capsule for a motor vehicle headlamp A pivot capsule for a motor vehicle headlamp has a seating receiving a substantially spherical head of a fixing rod of substantially axial orientation extending from a housing of the headlamp to allow the lighting module to pivot. The seating is open at its two tran... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6929271 | Hydraulically compensated stabilizer system The present technique provides a stabilizer system comprising a plurality of piston cylinder assemblies, which have multiple interconnected chambers to provide cross compensation between suspension members coupled to those piston cylinder assemblies. The piston cyli... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6923592 | Ball and socket rollers load latch mechanism A location control mechanism includes a striker having a preferably spherically shaped lock ball and a pair of mutually adjacent socket rollers, each socket roller having a complementing preferably hemispherically shaped semi-socket which collectively provide a sing... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6913410 | Ball joint A ball-and-socket joint (1) is provided with a sleeve (2) or a pivot (3) with a partial spherical surface (4) and with a bearing shell (5) surrounding the partial spherical surface (4) in a positive-locking manner with a hol... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6860671 | D-ring assembly with a load limiting device A D-ring assembly comprising a D-ring and a load limiting device. The D-ring has a slot therethrough for receiving a seatbelt webbing and for guiding the webbing from the retractor to the torso of a vehicle occupant. The load limiting device functions by absorbing k... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6857810 | Ceramic ball-and-socket joint A ceramic ball-and-socket joint for a motor vehicle, especially for the chassis of the motor vehicle, is provided, in which the ball-and-socket joint has a ball-and-socket joint housing (5) provided with a joint opening (7) and a ball pivot provided wi... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6813991 | Braking system and force transmission assembly therefor A load-transmitting arrangement (14) with articulated function for taking up and transmitting a pedal force, in particular a brake pedal force, is described. A braking device (10) of a brake system comprising the load-transmitting arrangement (14 | 11/09/2004 |
| 6802275 | Ball-and-socket assembly The invention provides a ball-and-socket assembly having a ball element including a ball portion and a socket housing including a socket formed by a flexible socket wall for receiving and releasably retaining the ball portion in the socket. The ball-and-socket assem... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6761499 | Bearing shell for ball-and-socket joints A bearing shell for ball-and-socket joints or ball sleeve joints is provided with an inner hollow spherically designed bearing surface (3). The bearing shell has an outer cylindrically designed support surface with which the bearing shell can be inserted into... | 07/13/2004 |
| 6755589 | Clevis assembly for an implement hitch A rotary cutter includes a hitch comprising upper and lower arm sections which define a parallel linkage extending between the deck of the rotary cutter and a ball clevis forming a forward end of the hitch. The ball clevis includes identical upper and lower halves w... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6748820 | Self-adjusting isolator for reducing cable lash in transmission shift systems A terminal assembly for connecting a core member of a remote control cable assembly to a control member includes a housing, an isolator secured to the housing with a snap-fit connection and having a deflectable wall at least partially forming a passage for receiving... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6742955 | Tie rod end with purgative grease zerk and purgeless tie rod boot A tie rod end having a purgative zerk for removal of used lubricants is provided. In one embodiment of the invention, the tie rod end includes a socket member that defines a first bore in which a ball stud member is disposed and a second bore in communication with t... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6726394 | Connecting ball joint, for example for an anti-roll bar of a running vehicle The invention relates to a connecting ball joint (10), for example an anti-roll bar of a running vehicle, the ball joint (10) comprising a straight support (20) running along a general axis of elongation (xx′) and an elastically deformable mem... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6692179 | Spherical sleeve joint A ball sleeve joint with a joint housing has a ball sleeve provided with a preferably spherically designed bearing surface. A bearing shell surrounds the bearing surface and is accommadated in a recess of the joint housing. The joint housing is formed fro... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6568871 | Spherical joint for coupling three or more links together at one point A spherical joint for coupling three or more links together at one point. The joint includes a bail and a hollow spherical body wrapping the ball therein. The ball is movable in the hollow spherical body. An upper link inserted into and fixed to the hollo... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6485217 | Light adjustment device for laser resonant socket A light adjustment device for a laser resonant socket having a laser base having a housing that defines a laser chamber that retains a laser diode therein, and a fixing seat disposed at one end of the housing. The light adjustment device further includes ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6350060 | Dual load path spherical bearing and a method of coupling along a dual load path A dual load path spherical bearing (10) comprises a bearing race (12) and a bearing ball (14). The bearing race (12) comprises a bearing race first half (16) and a bearing race second half (22) adapted to interface with the bearing race first half to form... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6345926 | Spherical mounting arrangement Spherical mountings are useful for pivotally connecting a push arm of a blade to a track roller frame of a machine. When the blade is removed the bearing assembly must be disassembled and to reconnect the blade to the spherical mounting the bearing assemb... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6206785 | Constant velocity universal joint and method A non-stroking constant velocity universal joint including an inner joint member, an outer joint member, and a plurality of torque transferring bearing spheres in facing pairs of ball grooves in the inner and outer joint members. The bearing spheres are m... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6116646 | Tilt steering mechanism and method A lawn tractor has a pivoting shaft mechanism and a tilt steering mechanism. The lawn tractor includes a frame, a first wheel, a steering implement for steering the wheel, and a power steering pump for use in providing power for the steering of the first ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6019541 | Radial ring bearing set for ball and socket joints A ball and socket joint includes a bearing set having an upper bearing and a lower bearing that have respective rim portions that are shaped for complementary overlapping engagement to create a radial and axial preload on a ball and socket joint assembly.... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5947249 | Device for fixing and articulating a master cylinder on a motor vehicle clutch pedal A master cylinder for a motor vehicle clutch is coupled to the clutch pedal by means of a fastening and articulating device comprising a ball which is mounted pivotally in a ball housing. The ball housing is in the form of a tulip, the base of which has a... | 09/07/1999 |
