Wheel carrier
Double wishbone suspension The wheel carrier in the center of the picture contains the connection to the two wishbones and the tie rod , as well as the wheel bearings.
Wheel carrier of a multi-link axle
The part of the wheel suspension that is connected to the vehicle body via control arms and joints is referred to as the wheel carrier . It essentially contains the wheel bearings of a motor vehicle and all wheel-side articulation points as well as fastening points for the brake caliper in the case of disc brakes or for the anchor plate in the case of drum brakes. The wheel carrier is opposite to the vehicle body ( chassis or self-supporting body ) guided part and, together with the wheel to the unsprung mass of the vehicle. The term is also used for steered axles (in which the steering axis of rotation (spread axis) is defined by the centers of ball joints ) instead of the previous designation steering knuckle .
literature
- Bernd Hoting, Metin Ersoy, Stefan Gies: Chassis Manual. 4th edition, Springer Vieweg Verlag. 2013, ISBN 978-3658019914 .
- Wolfgang Matschinsky: Wheel guides of road vehicles: kinematics, elasto-kinematics and construction. , 3rd edition, Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-71196-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Trzesniowski: Racing car technology: basics, construction, components, systems . 4th edition. Springer Vieweg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-04918-8 , pp. 376 ( limited preview in Google Book search).