Front axle and steering assembly of automobile vehicle

Claim 1

SUSPENSION AND STEERING MEANS FOR THE INDEPENDENT FRONT WHEELS OF AN AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLE COMPRISING A VERTICAL STUB-AXLE SUPPORT FOR EACH WHEEL, EACH SUB-AXLE SUPPORT CARRYING THE STUB-AXLE OF EACH WHEEL SUBSTANTIALLYINTERMEDIATE ITS UPPER AND LOWER ENDS, A STEERING MECHANISM INCLUDING A CENTRAL CONTROL MEMBER, A LINKAGE CONNECTING THE STEERING MECHANISM TO EACH STUB-AXLE SUPPORT, LOWER SUSPENSION ARMS OF THE WISHBONE TYPE DISPOSED TRANSVERSELY OF THE LONGITUDINAL PLANE OF SYMMETRY OF THE VEHICLE AND PIVOTALLY CONNECTED AT THEIR OPEN ENDS TO THE BODY OF THE VEHICLE, A BALL AND SOCKET JOINT CONNECTING THE CLOSED ENDS OF THE LOWER SUSPENSION ARMS TO THE LOWER ENDS OF THE STUB-AXLE SUPPORT, UPPER SUSPENSION ARMS DISPOSED SUBSTANTIALLY LONGITUDINALLY IN RELATION TO THE LONGITUDINAL PLANE SYMMETRY OF THE VEHICLE, A BALL AND SOCKET JOINT CONNECTING THE UPPER SUSPENSION ARMS TO THE UPPER ENDS OF THE STUB-AXLE SUPPORTS, A TORSION BAR CONNECTING THE UPPER SUSPENSION ARMS, EACH UPPER SUSPENSION ARM BEING COMPOSED OF A SIMPLE LEVER AND A LEVER ARM END OF THE TORSION BAR, THE ARTICULATION AXES OF THE TORISION BAR AND OF THE ARMS BEING ALIGNED.