US 11,815,128 B2
Ball joint
Michael Hahn, Osnabrück (DE); Wolfgang Eulerich, Osnabrück (DE); and Manfred Heidemann, Belm-Vehrte (DE)
Assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen (DE)
Appl. No. 17/296,815
Filed by ZF Friedrichshafen AG, Friedrichshafen (DE)
PCT Filed Nov. 5, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/080144
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 25, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/114694, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 11, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 220 954.5 (DE), filed on Dec. 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0003266 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. F16C 11/06 (2006.01); F16C 11/10 (2006.01)
CPC F16C 11/0638 (2013.01) [F16C 11/10 (2013.01); F16C 2226/80 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A ball joint comprising:
a housing,
a ball socket having a ball bearing section for receiving a joint ball,
an anti-rotation means for preventing any movement of the ball socket within the housing,
the housing and the ball socket each having a respective connecting element, which have corresponding holding profiles, that form the anti-rotation means so that, in an assembled condition of the housing and the ball socket, the connecting elements form a plug-in connection, and
a recess is formed, in an outside of the ball socket, which completely surrounds the connecting element of the ball socket and in which, in the assembled condition, the housing engages with a correspondingly shaped annular ridge, and the recess has a U-shaped cross-section.