Patents Assigned to Material Engineering Research Laboratory Ltd.
  • Elastomeric spring with non-linear force/deflection characteristics
    Patent number: 5118086
    Abstract: A compression spring useful in vehicle suspension applications has an extended plateau region in its force/deflection characteristics, such extended plateau being obtained by virtue of the formation of the spring as a tubular elastomer body of progressively increasing cross-section from one end to the other provided with longitudinally spaced-apart reinforcements defining bulging instability sites therebetween. The spring when under compression undergoes bulging sequentially at these sites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: Material Engineering Research Laboratory Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Stevenson, John Harris