US 11,718,136 B2
Bearing arrangement for a damper bearing of a shock absorber and method for installation of a damper bearing on a vehicle body
Thomas Schilling, Sassenburg (DE); Werner Krauth, Wolfsburg (DE); and Nicole Wallmann, Knesebeck (DE)
Assigned to Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed by Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg (DE)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/534,052.
Application 17/534,052 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/062934, filed on May 8, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 207 872.9 (DE), filed on May 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0080797 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. B60G 13/00 (2006.01); B62D 25/08 (2006.01); B62D 65/02 (2006.01); B62D 65/12 (2006.01)
CPC B60G 13/003 (2013.01) [B62D 25/088 (2013.01); B62D 65/024 (2013.01); B62D 65/12 (2013.01); B60G 2204/128 (2013.01); B60G 2204/44 (2013.01); B60G 2206/8207 (2013.01); B60G 2206/91 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bearing arrangement for a damper bearing of a shock absorber in a wheelhouse of a vehicle, the bearing arrangement comprising:
a damper receptacle formed in a wheelhouse sheet metal part delimiting the wheelhouse, which damper receptacle is screw-connected to the damper bearing of the shock absorber;
a threaded bolt guided through a damper bearing screw hole and through a screw hole of the damper receptacle and a bolt tip of the threaded bolt is screwed together with an internal thread of a reinforcement element that is arranged on a side of the damper receptacle, said side facing away from the wheelhouse;
a positioning aid associated with the damper receptacle, via which positioning aid the damper bearing of the shock absorber is adapted to be pre-positioned in an assembly process up to an installation position in which the screw hole of the damper bearing, the screw hole of the damper receptacle, and the reinforcement element internal thread are oriented flush with respect to each other in a screw direction,
wherein the positioning aid is a material-uniform and/or integral component of the reinforcement element so that a relative position between the positioning aid and the reinforcement element internal thread is fixed, independently of component and/or production tolerances in the damper receptacle and/or in the wheelhouse sheet metal part.