Device for connecting a helical compression spring to the trailing arm in the wheel suspension of a motor vehicle

摘要

A device for connecting a helical compression spring to the trailing arm in the wheel suspension of a motor vehicle. Bending stresses on the spring are prevented by supporting it on the trailing arm through a support that is mounted in a bushing rigidly attached to the trailing arm in such a way that the support moves freely around predetermined angle to the normal to the plane of support on the trailing arm. In one embodiment that is especially simple in design the wire at the end of the spring that faces the trailing arm spirals in as far as the center line of the spring, the end of the spring wire is bent at a right angle and extended axially out of the spring, and the end of the spring wire functions in itself as a support, the face of the end of the wire resting on a ball positioned in a bushing.