Ball joint and dust cover

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11566660
APP PUB NO 20200284290A1
SERIAL NO

16647997

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Abstract

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Provided are a ball joint and a dust cover that make it possible to suppress contact of a body portion of the dust cover with the vicinity of a flange portion of a ball stud. A dust cover integrally includes: a deformable bellows-shaped body portion made of an elastic body; a fixed portion made of an elastic body and provided on one end side of the body portion; and a sealing portion made of an elastic body and provided on the other end side of the body portion. The sealing portion includes: an inner peripheral sealing portion configured to be slidable on a part of a shank portion on the opposite side of the shank portion from a spherical portion with respect to a flange portion; and a cover portion that continuously covers, in an outer wall surface of the flange portion, a radially outward tip end portion and a part of a portion that decreases in diameter from the tip end portion toward the spherical portion side.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddress
NOK CORPORATIONTOKYO 105-8585

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Hirota, Takuma Shizuoka, JP 8 8

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