Device for level adjustment for a motor vehicle

• US 10,457,106 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co.KG (INA-Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co.KG (INA-Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG)
• Inventors: Wuebbolt-Gorbatenko, Benjamin, Faber, Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): Verley, Nicole T
• Application Number:
  US15/743,215
• Publication Number:
  US 20180208010A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,205 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 15/062 the spring being arranged around the damper B60G15/061, B60G15/067, B60G15/07 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 17/021 the mechanical spring being a coil spring B60G17/0272 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2202/312 The spring being a wound spring
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2202/42 Electric actuator
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2204/4192 rack and pinion
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2500/30 Height or ground clearance
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 2600/44 Vibration noise suppression
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 25/2228 the device for circulation forming a part of the screw member

Abstract

A level adjustment device for a vehicle, comprising a damping device having a piston-cylinder unit and a screw drive, and an adapter sleeve that axially supports a spindle of the screw drive and includes a flange directed radially inwards, wherein the adapter sleeve is configured to utilize the screw drive and is decoupled in relation to a cylinder of the piston-cylinder unit via one or more elastic elements.

Claims

1. A device for a level adjustment of a motor vehicle comprising:

a damping device having a piston-cylinder unit and a screw drive that includes a spindle and a nut that is mounted on the spindle via rolling elements, to which a disc that is carrying a spring of the damping device is coupled, wherein the nut can be moved axially along the spindle, wherein an adapter sleeve axially supports the spindle and is provided with a flange that is directed radially inwards and which is axially supported on a cylinder of the piston-cylinder unit via the flange, wherein the adapter sleeve and the cylinder that is mounted on a wheel-carrier side are secured to one another so that the adapter sleeve and the cylinder cannot rotate, and wherein the adapter sleeve is decoupled in relation to the cylinder via at least one elastic element.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the elastic element is a ring arranged between the flange and the cylinder.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein a further second elastic element in form of a ring or a sleeve is provided, wherein the second elastic element decouples the adapter sleeve towards an outer cylinder wall.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the ring or the sleeve is arranged in an area of the lower end of the adapter sleeve.

5. The device of claim 4, wherein a recess is provided at the flange into which a projection engages which is provided at the cylinder.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the adapter sleeve features a support collar that is protruding radially towards the outside, on which the spindle is supported.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the spindle and the adapter sleeve are secured against rotation towards each other.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein an axially directed projection is provided at a support collar and engages into a recess at the spindle.

9. A level adjustment device for a vehicle, comprising:

a damping device having a piston-cylinder unit and a screw drive; and

an adapter sleeve that axially supports a spindle of the screw drive and includes a flange directed radially inwards, wherein the adapter sleeve is configured to utilize the screw drive and is decoupled in relation to a cylinder of the piston-cylinder unit via one or more elastic elements.

10. The level adjustment device of claim 9, wherein the adapter sleeve is axially supported on the cylinder of the piston-cylinder unit via the flange.

11. The level adjustment device of claim 10, wherein the adapter sleeve and the cylinder that is mounted on a wheel-carrier side are secured to one another so that they cannot rotate.

12. The level adjustment device of claim 9, wherein the adapter sleeve is decoupled in relation to the cylinder utilizing at least one elastic element.

13. The level adjustment device of claim 9, wherein the spindle and a nut are mounted on rolling elements.

14. The level adjustment device of claim 13, wherein the nut is configured to move axially along the spindle.

15. The level adjustment device of claim 9, wherein the adapter sleeve includes a radial recess and a radial projection formed at the cylinder, wherein the recess and radial projection are configured to engage to secure against rotation of the adapter sleeve in relation to the cylinder.

16. The level adjustment device of claim 9, wherein the spindle and the adapter sleeve are secured against rotation towards each other.

17. The level adjustment device of claim 9, wherein the adapter sleeve includes a support collar that protrudes radially outward.

18. A level adjustment device for a vehicle, comprising:

a screw drive that includes;

an adapter sleeve that axially supports a spindle that includes a flange, wherein the flange is directed radially inwards towards the spindle, wherein the adapter sleeve is configured to decouple to a cylinder utilizing an elastic element; and

a nut configured to move up and down in an axial direction on the spindle.

19. The level adjustment device for a vehicle of claim 18, where in the nut is configured to be operated by a drive mechanism.

20. The level adjustment device for a vehicle of claim 19, wherein the nut and the drive mechanism are in a common housing.