BEARING PLATE FOR A VEHICLE BEARING

Abstract

A bearing plate for a chassis bearing of a vehicle, having a main body with a bearing section for making full-area contact with a complementary bearing face of a component to be mounted, and having a receiving section for being received in a force-transmitting manner on a complementary receiving section of a chassis component. The bearing section is connected to the receiving section via at least two spring sections which have a spring structure or a sprung relative movability in the radial direction and a stabilization in the axial direction.

Claims

1. A bearing plate or a chassis bearing of a vehicle, said bearing plate comprising: a main body with a bearing section or making full-area contact with a complementary bearing face of a component to be mounted, and a receiving section for being received in a force-transmitting manner on a complementary receiving section of a chassis component, said bearing section being connected to the receiving section via at least two spring sections which have a spring structure for relative movability in a radial direction and a stabilization in an axial direction.

2. The bearing plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least two spring sections are arranged axially symmetrical about a bearing axis of the bearing section.

3. The bearing plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least two spring sections have identical or substantially identical spring structures.

4. The bearing plate s claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least two spring sections and the entire main body have a continuous or substantially continuous cross section in the axial direction.

5. The bearing plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the main body has support sections for full-area support against corresponding support sections of main bodies of adjacent bearing plates.

6. The bearing plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least two spring sections are arranged in an overlap-free manner with respect to one another.

7. The bearing plate as claimed in claim 1, wherein the main body is configured in one piece with the bearing section, the receiving section and the at least two spring sections.

8. A bearing apparatus for a chassis bearing of a vehicle, having at least two of the bearing plates of claim 1, which bearing plates are arranged with respect to one another so as to make coaxial contact.

9. The bearing apparatus s claimed in claim 8, wherein the at least two bearing plates are of identical or substantially identical configuration, and the bearing plates are oriented in an offset manner in a circumferential direction.

10. The bearing apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein at least two bearing plates have a different number or structure of spring sections.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

[0025] Further advantages, features and details of the invention result from the following description, in which exemplary embodiments of the invention are described in detail with reference to the drawings. Here, the features which are mentioned in the claims and in the description may be essential to the invention in each case individually per se or in any desired combination. In the drawings, diagrammatically:

[0026] FIG. 1 shows one embodiment of a bearing plate according to aspects of the invention,

[0027] FIG. 2 shows the assembly situation of three bearing plates to form a bearing apparatus,

[0028] FIG. 3 shows a finally assembled bearing apparatus in accordance with the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0029] FIG. 1 shows how a bearing plate 10 can fundamentally be constructed. Here, it is equipped with a main body 20 made from a metal material, for example from titanium. In this embodiment, the production of said main body 20 or of the bearing plate 10 has taken place in an additive and constructing way, for example with the aid of a 3D printing method.

[0030] In order to provide the bearing functionality, a bearing section 30 can be seen as a round bearing opening in the center in the case of a bearing plate 10 according to FIG. 1. In this way, a bearing axis LA and therefore the axial direction AR are also defined. The bearing component to be received has a corresponding complementary bearing face for support against the bearing section 30.

[0031] In order for it then to be possible for the forces to be dissipated to the outside, the main 25 body 20 of the bearing plate 10 according to FIG. 1 is equipped with a receiving section 40 which is likewise configured here as a circumferential face. A transmission of force in the radial direction RR to the outside can then be provided by way of an insertion in a corresponding complementary receiving section of a chassis component, for example a link system. In order for it to be possible for a spring action to be provided during the 30 dissipation of the forces in the bearing plate 10, 18 spring sections 50 are therefore provided here. Here, the sprung action of the individual spring sections 50 is ensured by way of serpentine spring structures 52. As can be gathered clearly from FIG. 1, the individual spring sections 50 are oriented here next to one another and in a radial orientation along the radial direction RR, the spring sections 50 being arranged next to one another in an overlap-free manner.

[0032] As can likewise be gathered from FIG. 1, the main body 20 has a continuous cross section along the bearing axis LA or along the axial direction AR. In this direction, the result is thus a wall which is perpendicular in a manner oriented in the axial direction AR, which wall makes the desired mechanical stabilization in said axial direction AR possible, that is to say against tilting of the individual elements with respect to one another.

[0033] Whereas a bearing plate 10 according to FIG. 1 can also fundamentally be used alone as a bearing apparatus, a combination of two or more bearing plates 10 is appropriate, in particular, for a bearing apparatus 100. A possible combination of this type is shown within the context of an assembly method according to FIG. 2. Here, along the axial direction AR, three bearing plates 10 are arranged against one another or are brought to lie with respect to one another with full-area contact and coaxially about the bearing axis AR. Here, the adjoining bearing plates 10 make contact in a full-area way with one another via the support sections 22. This results in a bearing apparatus 100, as shown by FIG. 3, for example.

[0034] FIG. 3 consists of two separate bearing plates 10 which have been joined together in a similar way, as shown by FIG. 2. Here, however, an additional improvement has occurred, namely an offset in the circumferential direction UR of the two bearing plates 10 with respect to one another. This can be seen, in particular, in the fact that the symmetrically arranged spring sections 50 of the two adjoining bearing plates 10 then do not overlap in the axial direction AR, but rather a greater number of spring sections 50 become visible as a result of the rotation along the circumferential direction UR of the two bearing plates 10 with respect to one another. This fragmentation of the free sections leads to a further mechanical stabilization on the basis of a particularly simple construction of the individual bearing plates 10 per se. Therefore, a more complex bearing functionality for the entire bearing apparatus 100 can be built up from individual bearing plates 10 which are as simple as possible.

[0035] The above explanation of the embodiments describes the present invention exclusively within the context of examples. It goes without saying that individual features of the embodiments, if technically appropriate, can be combined freely with one another, without departing from the scope of the present invention.