Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dust cover for ball joint
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Application No.: US15307293Application Date: 2015-05-08
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Publication No.: US10041530B2Publication Date: 2018-08-07
- Inventor: Koji Kanagawa
- Applicant: NOK CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: NOK Corporation
- Current Assignee: NOK Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Peirce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2014-099488 20140513
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/063255 WO 20150508
- International Announcement: WO2015/174329 WO 20151119
- Main IPC: F16C11/06
- IPC: F16C11/06 ; F16J15/52 ; F16C41/04

Abstract:
A dust cover for a ball joint has a spherical head portion, a shaft, a cylindrical one-end large-diameter opening portion, a large-diameter opening portion side reinforcing ring fixed to a socket, the other end small-diameter opening portion retained onto the shaft, a flange portion extending from an end portion in the other-end small-diameter opening portion of the one-end large-diameter opening portion toward a ball stud side, and a rubber-like elastic film portion coupling an inward end portion of the flange portion and the other-end small-diameter opening portion. The dust cover has an outside projection provided on an outer peripheral surface of the film portion, and an inside projection provided on an inner peripheral surface of a joint portion between the flange portion and the film portion, and the outside projection and the inside projection come into contact with each other when the dust covers for the ball joint are laminated.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170051784A1 DUST COVER FOR BALL JOINT Public/Granted day:2017-02-23
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