US 7,600,923 B2
	Wheel bearing in a wheel carrier
Peter Niebling, Bad Kissingen (Germany); Jens Heim, Bergrheinfeld (Germany); Heinrich Hofmann, Schweinfurt (Germany); Roland Langer, Schwanfeld (Germany); Darius Dlugai, Schweinfurt (Germany); Horst Doeppling, Herzogenaurach (Germany); and Wolfgang Steinberger, Herzogenaurach (Germany)
Assigned to Schaeffler KG, Schweinfurt (Germany)
Appl. No. 10/596,555 PCT Filed Dec. 06, 2004, PCT No. PCT/DE2004/002674 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 21, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2005/059388, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 30, 2005.
Claims priority of application No. 103 59 646 (DE), filed on Dec. 18, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2007/0160317 A1, Jul. 12, 2007
Int. Cl. F16C 35/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 384—544

7 Claims

1. A wheel bearing in a wheel carrier comprising: at least one outer ring, having at least one row of rolling bodies, the wheel bearing being supported in the wheel carrier at least on a cylindrical section of the outer ring at least radially with respect to the rotational axis, and the outer ring having a flange which points radially away from the rotational axis wherein a raceway for the rolling bodies is formed, at least partially, on a radial shoulder which extends inwardly toward the axis of rotation, and the flange is formed axially on the end side of the outer ring, the flange being adapted to be axially fastened to the wheel carrier, wherein a fastening element engages at least axially behind the flange on a side of the flange which faces axially away from the wheel carrier, and the fastening element bears against the flange with a head axially to fix the flange to the wheel carrier.