US 11,958,325 B2
Suspension abutment device with seal
Benoit Arnault, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (FR); Baptiste Vidil, Levallois-Perret (FR); Thomas Lepine, Tours (FR); and Christophe Houdayer, Semblancay (FR)
Assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF, Gothenburg (SE)
Filed by Aktiebolaget SKF, Gothenburg (SE)
Filed on Jul. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/868,905.
Claims priority of application No. 2108001 (FR), filed on Jul. 23, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0025440 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. B60G 15/06 (2006.01); F16C 19/10 (2006.01); F16C 33/76 (2006.01); F16C 35/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60G 15/067 (2013.01) [F16C 19/10 (2013.01); F16C 33/761 (2013.01); F16C 33/768 (2013.01); F16C 35/042 (2013.01); B60G 2202/12 (2013.01); B60G 2204/418 (2013.01); F16C 2326/05 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A suspension abutment device comprising:
a lower support cap provided with an annular radial support portion;
an upper bearing cap provided with an annular radial bearing portion;
the upper bearing cap having an annular axial external skirt;
an annular passage being defined between the axial external skirt and the radial support portion;
at least one bearing disposed between an upper surface of the radial support portion and a lower surface of the radial bearing portion;
at least one annular seal disposed radially at least in part between the exterior skirt of the upper bearing cap and the bearing; and
wherein the seal comprises an annular claw secured by mechanical connection to an interior axial surface of the axial external skirt of the upper bearing cap and at least one sealing lip extending obliquely inwards and downwards from the claw, in the direction of the radial support portion of a lower bearing cap, in such a manner that a free end of the lip comes into the immediate proximity of a surface of the radial support portion, the seal being formed in one piece.