US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Oct. 21 for "Chassis component for a vehicle with a hollow metal base body and method of manufacturing such a chassis component" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,785, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Chassis component for a vehicle with a hollow metal base body and method of manufacturing such a chassis component" was invented by Gordon Kirsch (Kirchhundem, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chassis component for a vehicle has a hollow metallic base body, where at least one axial end section of the base body is deformed in order to seal the base body, and having at least one joint housing made of plastic. The joint housing is injection-molded and/or cast onto the end section of the base body. In order to produce in a simple manner a s...