US 11,858,306 B2
Stabilizer bar disconnect
Manfred Kraus, Tuchenbach (DE); Florin Dobre, Brasov (RO); Brian Lee, Charlotte, NC (US); Adrian Husu, Brasov (RO); Benjamin Wuebbolt-Gorbatenko, Erlangen (DE); Mihai Achim, Brasov (RO); Marius-Constantin Costache, Malaestii de Jos (RO); and Mihaly Kovacs, Sf. Gheorghe (RO)
Assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed by Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach (DE)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/843,234.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/235,211, filed on Aug. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0060076 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B60G 21/055 (2006.01)
CPC B60G 21/0556 (2013.01) [B60G 2202/135 (2013.01); B60G 2202/42 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle stabilizer comprising:
first and second side-bars;
a housing fixed to the first side-bar, the housing defining at least two axial grooves;
a tulip fixed to the second side-bar, the tulip defining at least two open-ended axial slots;
a nut configured to move axially within the housing via an actuator between a first connected position and a second disconnected position, the nut having at least two pins, each one of the at least two pins corresponding with one of the at least two axial grooves; and,
in the first connected position, each one of the at least two pins extend into one of the at least two open-ended axial slots to selectively torsionally couple the housing to the tulip so that the first side-bar is torsionally coupled to the second side-bar; and
in the second disconnected position, each one of the at least two pins is moved out of the one of the at least two open-ended axial slots so that the first side-bar is torsionally uncoupled from the second side-bar.