Wheel suspension for motor vehicles

Claim 1

In a suspension for a steerable wheel of a motor vehicle having a chassis, wherein the suspension includes a wheel guiding shock absorber having a lower end and an upper end; a wheel carrier rigidly attached to the lower end of the shock absorber; a control arm coupling the wheel carrier to the chassis; and an upper support including a rubber spring unit resiliently connecting the upper end of the shock absorber to the chassis, the improvement wherein said rubber spring unit is constituted by a rubber ring formed of a rubber wall having a thickness less than its height; said wall having upwardly and downwardly oriented end faces; said chassis being in engagement with said rubber ring exclusively at said upwardly oriented end face and said shock absorber being in engagement with said rubber ring exclusively at said downwardly oriented end face for exposing said rubber ring at least approximately exclusively to compression effected by the force generated by the load on the wheel and to be exposed exclusively to shear by lateral forces; said rubber ring yielding more to said lateral forces than to the compression forces generated by the load on the wheel for effecting a low rigidity of the camber angle.