WHEEL SUSPENSION FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE
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Abstract
A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle includes an electric vibration damper which is affixed to the vehicle body and which has a generator that can be driven by translational wheel movements of the vehicle wheel in order to generate an induced voltage. The stator and the rotor of the generator are interconnected via at least one gear stage, wherein a gear element of the gear stage is a drive gear wheel of a rack-and-pinion drive that is drivingly connected to a wheel carrier of the wheel suspension, with the wheel carrier following the wheel movements.
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32 Claims
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1-14. -14. (canceled)
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15. A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle, comprising:
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an electric vibration damper having a generator attached on a vehicle body of the motor vehicle and comprising a stator and a rotor, wherein the generator is driven by translational wheel movements of a vehicle wheel for generating an induced voltage, and at least one gear stage interconnecting the stator and the rotor, with the at least one gear stage comprising a gear element constructed as a drive gear wheel of a rack-and-pinion drive, wherein the rack-and-pinion drive is drivingly connected with a wheel carrier of the wheel suspension, with the wheel carrier following the translational wheel movements. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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