B - Operations – Transporting – 62 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
62
D
280/186
B62D 7/16 (2006.01) B60G 21/055 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2010490
END LINK FOR STABILIZER BAR ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An end link for a stabilizer bar, a suspension system for an automobile, or for a motor truck, and a method for assembling the end link. A unitary spool has a tubular body and an annular flange at each end. Two annular washers conform in thickness and outer diameter to the flanges. Four annular grommets made of an elastomeric material conform in shape to each other, each having one end adapted to be snap-fitted over one of the flanges or over one of the washers. A bolt, which has a head and a shank with a threaded end, and a nut, which threads onto the threaded end, are used to assemble the end link from a pre-assembled grommet-spool- grommet subassembly, in which a respective one of the grommets is snap-fitted at its snap-fittable end over each of the flanges of the spool, and two pre-assembled grommet-washer subassemblies, in each of which a respective one of the grommets is snap-fitted at its snap-fittable end over a respective one of the washers. Preferably, the bolt and one of the washers are integrated into a unitary part. As it is assembled, the end link can be easily connected to a stabilizer bar, which is formed with an aperture near one end, and to a control element, which also is formed with an aperture. The opposite ends of two adjacent grommets, namely a grommet from the grommet-spool-grommet subassembly and a grommet from one of the grommet-washer subassemblies, form tubular extensions, which extend axially, from opposite directions, into each aperture.
Hardy Donald P. Jr.
Parker Eric G.
Finlayson & Singlehurst
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
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