BALL AND SOCKET JOINT

摘要

A ball-and-socket joint for a motor vehicle, especially for the chassis of the motor vehicle has a ball-and-socket joint housing (i), which has a joint opening and in which a bearing shell ( 5 ) made of an insulating material is arranged. A ball pivot ( 4 ) is made of an electrically conductive material and has a joint ball ( 2 ) and a pivot ( 3 ) mounted rotatably and pivotably with its joint ball ( 2 ) in the bearing shell ( 5 ) and protrudes with its pivot ( 3 ) from the ball-and-socket joint housing ( 1 ) through the joint opening. An electrode ( 14 ) is arranged in the wall ( 12 ) of the bearing shell ( 5 ) at a spaced location from the joint ball ( 2 ), and the electrode ( 14 ) and the joint ball ( 2 ) are electrically insulated against each other via the bearing shell ( 5 ).