Annular Flange Or Collar Embedded In Resilient Element Patents (Class 267/141.4)
  • Patent number: 11447177
    Abstract: A damper unit for use in a vibration-reducing assembly for a steering wheel is disclosed. An elastomeric damper element is molded on an inner sleeve and includes a plurality of elastomeric ribs forming a radially outer engagement surface, and a plurality of elastomeric support studs, which are mutually spaced in a circumferential direction are flexible in all directions transverse to said axis. Methods for making a damper unit and a damper assembly are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: VIBRACOUSTIC FORSHEDA AB
    Inventor: Erik Myklebust
  • Patent number: 10960931
    Abstract: An attachment is configured to connect a first connecting plate of a vehicle component to a second connecting plate of a vehicle body. The attachment includes a body, first, second and third flanges, and a press-fit insert. The attachment is of an elastically deformable material and is configured to be inserted into first and second through holes of the first and second connecting plates. The flanges engage the connecting plates when the attachment is inserted into the through holes. The body includes a hole extending longitudinally within the body to accommodate the press-fit insert. The press-fit insert has a diameter greater than the diameter of the hole to form a snug connection between the press-fit insert and the hole. The insertion of the press-fit insert into the hole elastically deforms the attachment to urge the body radially against the connecting plates to provide a robust connection between the connecting plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO International America, Inc.
    Inventors: John Vandermeer, Jacob Wright, Teodor Bogdan
  • Patent number: 10871198
    Abstract: An isolation mount connecting a panel to a structure includes a housing disposable on the structure, a fastener receiver with a panel-facing surface, and a damper connecting the housing to the fastener receiver. The panel-facing surface of the fastener receiver defines a static coefficient of friction between the panel-facing surface and the panel discouraging rotation of panel-facing surface around a longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventors: Alexis Caron-L'Ecuyer, Andre Brodeur
  • Patent number: 10753641
    Abstract: A drain pan for an air handling unit including a base, a lip attached to the base wherein the lip extends substantially vertically from the base, and a riser affixed to the base wherein the riser extends substantially vertically from the base to support the air handling unit. The drain pan may further include a riser that is preformed with the base to form a unibody drain pan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: J.F.R. Enterprises, Inc..
    Inventor: Jay F Rowland
  • Patent number: 10329782
    Abstract: An improved walk-behind floor scraper incorporates a plurality of isolators between a main plate and cutting head to reduce vibration and a plurality of stops to prevent damage to the isolators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: National Flooring Equipment, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew C. Burk
  • Patent number: 10215248
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bearing arrangement for a driver's cab (12) of a vehicle, which bearing arrangement is, in a mounted state, arranged between the driver's cab (12) and a cab support (16) of the vehicle, having a cone bearing (14) which, centrally, has a bearing sleeve (34) which is fixable to the driver's cab (12) and which extends through an opening (38) of the cab support (16) and which is of hollow form, wherein the bearing sleeve (34) is, at the outside, by way of an elastic damping element (22) connected thereto, connected to a concentrically arranged support element (24), wherein the support element (24) is fixable to the cab support (16) at the cab side by way of connecting elements (26), and having an abutment element (30) which is arranged on an end, averted from the driver's cab (12), of the bearing sleeve (34) and which serves for limiting a movement of the damping element (22) in an axial direction (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: ContiTech Vibration Control GmbH
    Inventor: Oleksandr Kosov
  • Patent number: 9995333
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for securing a component to a surface are disclosed. The fastening device can include a base member having a threaded projection extending from a base plate. A base sealing gasket can be provided between the base plate and a surface on which the base plate is mounted to ensure a water-tight fit. A capping nut having a nut aperture can be threadably engaged to the treaded projection, and a structural fastener can be inserted through the nut aperture for securing a structural component of a building-mounted structure. A nut sealing gasket can be disposed between within the capping nut to ensure a water-tight fit between the capping nut and the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Sunrun South LLC
    Inventor: Greg McPheeters
  • Patent number: 9976619
    Abstract: A tubular vibration-damping device including: an inner shaft member; an outer tube member made of synthetic resin in which the inner shaft member is inserted and placed; a main rubber elastic body elastically connecting the inner shaft member and the outer tube member to each other; a flange part protruding peripherally outward from one axial end of the outer tube member; and a thick-walled portion whose axial dimension is made large being provided peripherally outside of a proximal end of the flange part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RIKO COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuki Yahata
  • Patent number: 9958025
    Abstract: A structure for attaching a cooling fan includes: a fan attachment plate interposed between a ventilation cover of a servomotor and the cooling fan and having a cut-out hole; and a tubular vibration-proof member supported by the cut-out hole of the fan attachment plate and fixed to the ventilation cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: SANYO DENKI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daigo Kuraishi
  • Patent number: 9945512
    Abstract: A structure for mounting an engine mount, may include bracket which is coupled to the engine mount, and may have at least one mounting hole; an insulator which may have a pipe shape having a center hole, includes a material having elasticity, and is fitted into the at least one mounting hole; and a fixing pipe which is fitted into the center hole, and mounted in the at least one mounting hole together with the insulator, in which a recessed portion having a partially cut out shape or a recessed shape is formed along a circumference of the insulator at a first side of the insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Pyung Hwa Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyo-Seok Kim, Yong-Jin Kim, Jong-Su Park, Do-Hun Kim, Myung-Han Kim
  • Patent number: 9903428
    Abstract: A brake disc assembly including a brake disk ring, a bell and a connecting mechanism between the brake disk ring and the bell, wherein the connecting mechanism includes a form-locked and/or force-locked connecting element in an axial direction DO of the brake disc ring, the connecting mechanism comprises a bushing for the connecting element and a distance element arranged between the brake disk ring and the bell, wherein the bushing includes a shoulder and a loss prevention, wherein the bushing further includes a region A1 provided for the brake disk ring and a region A2 provided for the bell, wherein the region A1 has an average expansion E4 in an direction perpendicular to DO and the region A2 has an average expansion E2 in an direction perpendicular to DO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: BREMBO SGL CARBON CERAMIC BRAKES GMBH
    Inventor: Harald Reulein
  • Patent number: 9702390
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the attachment of an object to another object comprising an interface insert (1) intended to be positioned between said objects and comprising a chamber (3). One of the two objects is attached to the insert (1), and the other object is attached to a mobile connecting element (2) inserted into said chamber (3). A liquid that is capable of solidifying is injected into the chamber (3) of the insert (1). As long as the liquid (4) has not solidified, the relative position between the two objects may be adjusted. Once this position is considered to be satisfactory, the solidification of the liquid (4) will permit the two objects to be set one in relation to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Daniela Simon, François Rouyre
  • Patent number: 9689454
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a frequency tuned damper with an elastic element (7) adapted to connect a vibration body (5) to a surface (3). The elastic element has a wide portion (17) and a narrow portion (19) disposed at different locations along a longitudinal axis (23) which is substantially parallel with the normal of the surface when the damper is mounted, and has a first circumferential mounting groove (11) in the wide portion (17), for attaching the wide portion to the surface, and a second circumferential mounting groove (15) in the narrow portion (19), for attaching the narrow portion to the vibration body. The first circumferential mounting groove extends along an elongated path. This provides a damper that is capable of providing two different resonance frequencies in two perpendicular directions in the plane of the surface, and can easily be aligned in a desired direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: TRELLEBORG AUTOMOTIVE FORSHEDA AB
    Inventor: Bengt-Göran Gustavsson
  • Patent number: 9648721
    Abstract: A circuit board mounting arrangement is provided including a circuit board and a press fit mounting bushing including a cylindrical inner piece and an outer piece secured to the inner piece. The outer piece has a plurality of radially projecting, deformable elements and the circuit board has a cylindrical opening having a diameter less than an outer diameter of the radially projecting deformable elements. The deformable elements deform when the mounting bushing is pushed into the cylindrical opening of the circuit board so as to hold the mounting bushing to the circuit board. The circuit board and press fit bushing are then overmolded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: TRW Automotive U.S. LLC
    Inventors: Neil Gordon Murray, Jr., Mark Ramsay
  • Patent number: 9393730
    Abstract: An apparatus for shaping plastics material preforms into plastics material containers includes a plurality of shaping stations each having two blow mould parts which are movable with respect to each other and which can be moved between a closed and an opened state. In the closed state the shaping station form a cavity, inside which the plastics material pre-forms are shaped. The shaping stations have a stressing device which acts upon the preforms with a gaseous medium to expand them, and stretch bars which are capable of being inserted into the preforms to stretch them in the longitudinal direction. The shaping stations each have at least one drive device which drives a movement necessary for the shaping procedure, as well as a control device for controlling this drive device. The control device is arranged on the apparatus through a damping device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: KRONES AG
    Inventors: Klaus Voth, Dieter Finger, Florian Geltinger, Paul Brinster
  • Patent number: 9309949
    Abstract: A vibration insulating member is equipped between one component and an other component. The vibration insulating member includes a through hole forming portion and a contact portion. The through hole forming portion is formed of an elastic material to have a through hole in which a connection member is inserted to connect the one component with the other component. The contact portion is projected radially inward from an inner wall of the through hole forming portion. The contact portion has an inner wall on a radially inside. When the connection member is inserted in the through hole, an outer wall of the connection member forms a gap with the inner wall of the through hole forming portion and is in contact with the inner wall of the contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto Kaneko, Taiki Yasuzaka
  • Patent number: 9283837
    Abstract: A dual level, vibration isolation system is provided that isolates a vehicle in general, and the vehicle's passenger cabin in particular, from the vibrations generated by the vehicle's motor during normal operation. The first isolation level uses a first plurality of isolation bushings to mount the motor assembly to a first portion of the battery pack. The second isolation level uses a second plurality of isolation bushings to mount the first portion of the battery pack either directly to the vehicle or indirectly to the vehicle via a second portion of the battery pack. In addition to providing two levels of vibration isolation, this compliant mounting scheme allows the mass of the battery pack to absorb and damp out undesirable rotational oscillations caused by the motor, especially when the motor is undergoing strong acceleration or deceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: ATIEVA, INC.
    Inventor: Peter Dore Rawlinson
  • Patent number: 8950738
    Abstract: To provide a vibration-damping support device that requires a smaller space for its own installation. A vibration-damping support device is provided with a rubber mount, a support member supporting the rubber mount thereon, and stoppers. The rubber mount is to be attached to a mounting platform for an object which is installed in a hydraulic excavator and is to be damped, for example, an engine that vibrates in vertical and horizontal directions, and has an elastic member of a rubber or like member for absorbing vibrations of the engine. The support member can be, for example, a support bracket to be fixedly secured on an unillustrated revolving frame. The stoppers are arranged integrally with the support bracket, and prevent an excessive deformation of the elastic member of the rubber mount under vibrations of the engine. The stopper is arranged on an upper side of the support bracket, while the stopper is arranged on a lower side of the support bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masao Nakamura
  • Patent number: 8864115
    Abstract: A vibration isolation structure is provided with a stress reduction section that can reduce the hydrostatic stress from tensional load along a stacking direction of portions of a composite laminated member corresponding to a first end side and a second end side in a shear direction orthogonal to the stacking direction to lower than the hydrostatic stress from tensional load along the stacking direction of other portions of the composite laminated member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kawada, Nobuaki Sato
  • Patent number: 8820701
    Abstract: A mounting arrangement is for supporting an outboard motor with respect to a marine vessel extending in a fore-aft plane. The mounting arrangement comprises first and second mounts that each have an outer shell, an inner wedge concentrically disposed in the outer shell, and an elastomeric spacer between the outer shell and the inner wedge. Each of the first and second mounts extend along a axial direction, along a vertical direction that is perpendicular to the axial direction, and along a horizontal direction that is perpendicular to the axial direction and perpendicular to the vertical direction. The inner wedges of the first and second mounts both have a non-circular shape when viewed in a cross-section taken perpendicular to the axial direction. The non-circular shape comprises a first outer surface that extends transversely at an angle to the horizontal and vertical directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventor: Charles H. Eichinger
  • Patent number: 8770559
    Abstract: A liquid sealed vibration isolating device has first and second mounting members and an insulator placed between the mounting members. A partition member partitions a liquid chamber into primary and secondary liquid chambers. A valve portion provided on a diaphragm enclosing the secondary liquid chamber opens and closes a port of a passage between the liquid chambers. The valve portion has an annular thick wall portion which contacts a valve seat portion provided around the port and a movable elastic diaphragm portion provided on an inside of the wall portion and is thinner than the wall portion so as to be elastically deformable by a pressure of the hydraulic liquid. The hydraulic liquid passing through the passage causes orifice resonance when the passage is opened by the valve portion. The diaphragm, including the valve portion, membrane-resonates at a frequency in the vicinity of a resonance frequency of the orifice resonance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Yamashita Rubber Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hirokazu Kadowaki, Kazutoshi Satori
  • Patent number: 8646761
    Abstract: An elastomeric isolator has an elastomeric body which incorporates an inner structural member and an outer structural member. The elastomeric body includes a shear hub extending between radial flanges defined by the inner and outer structural members that undergo shearing stresses during deflection of the elastomeric isolator. The inner and outer structural members are designed to provide a travel stop for the elastomeric isolator in order to avoid compression of the shear hub during high loads. The elastomeric bushing can also include an optional integral elastomeric heat shield which protects the shear hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: The Pullman Company
    Inventor: Troy P. Rodecker
  • Patent number: 8641132
    Abstract: A hydraulically damping mount includes a support bearing and a seat which are supported on each other by a hollow conical spring element made of an elastomeric material. The support bearing is shaped essentially as a double-T and includes two annular radial flanges that are connected to each other via a centrally positioned connecting tube so as to be adjacent to each other at an axial distance from each other and so as to delimit the mount on a front on both sides. A working chamber and a compensation chamber are filled with damping fluid and are separated from each other, on respective axially facing sides, via a partition having a damping channel which connects the chambers to each other so as to convey the fluid. The partition is joined to the seat and has an annular shape that surrounds and seals the connection tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Freudenberg KG
    Inventor: Volker Wittmershaus
  • Patent number: 8511656
    Abstract: A member mount has an inner tubular member, an outer tubular member, and a rubber elastic body connecting the tubular members. An inner peripheral resin layer having an inner hole as a positional hole is layered on an internal peripheral surface of the inner tubular member and an outer peripheral resin layer is layered on an outer peripheral surface thereof. The resin layers are connected to each other in resin connection portions in connection holes passing through the inner tubular member in four positions in the circumferential direction at equal distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki Yahata
  • Patent number: 8479899
    Abstract: Disclosed is a damper that is easy to mount and capable of attenuating to a sufficient degree a vibration generated by an electronic component; also disclosed are an electronic component and an electronic apparatus that are provided with such a damper. A mounting insertion portion is provided with a hard portion maintaining the configuration of the mounting insertion portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Polymatech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masataka Ohtake, Masayuki Itakura
  • Patent number: 8376331
    Abstract: An elastomeric isolator has an elastomeric body which incorporates an inner structural member and an outer structural member. The elastomeric body includes a shear hub extending between radial flanges defined by the inner and outer structural members that undergoes shearing stresses during deflection of the elastomeric isolator. The inner and outer structural members are designed to provide a travel stop for the elastomeric isolator in order to avoid compression of the shear hub during high loads. The elastomeric bushing can also include an optional integral elastomeric heat shield which protects the shear hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: The Pullman Company
    Inventor: Troy P. Rodecker
  • Patent number: 8376330
    Abstract: Apparatus for elastically supporting an engine transmission unit to a motor vehicle body, the apparatus comprising a rigid support member attachable to the engine transmission unit, a rigid flange attachable to the motor vehicle body and defining a horizontal, longitudinal direction particularly to be aligned with the driving direction of the vehicle, and an elastomeric body via which the support member is elastically supported by the flange and which has a vertical spring member for receiving a weight force of the engine transmission unit acting essentially vertically as well as perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction and a horizontal transverse direction, wherein the support member is extending away from the flange in transverse direction and has a mounting area offset with respect to the flange in transverse direction as well as a coupling section projecting in such a way essentially vertically through an opening formed through the flange that the coupling section forms an abutment for restricting a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Anvis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Weissbecker, Eyk Karus, Heiko Pichel
  • Patent number: 8366069
    Abstract: An isolator assembly includes an elastomeric assembly which is disposed within a socket defined by a supporting structure. The socket defines a transition portion, a retention rib and a stopping rib. The elastomeric assembly is positioned in the socket by sliding the elastomeric assembly through the transition portion so that the elastomeric assembly is compressed as it moves into the retention rib. The stopping rib engages an end surface of the elastomeric assembly once it has been properly positioned in the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: The Pullman Company
    Inventor: Troy P. Rodecker
  • Patent number: 8360405
    Abstract: A vibration-sensitive module having a mounting flange is mounted to a vibrational base with a bushing assembly secured to the base, where the mounting flange has cammed surfaces radially adjacent to the bushing assembly that variably engage the radial peripheries of the bushings in response to vibrational movement of the base. The cammed surfaces produce a desired force vs. deflection characteristic of the mounting apparatus, and the bushing material retains its compressibility under load to minimize cross-coupling of vibrational force impulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Morris D. Stillabower
  • Publication number: 20120326369
    Abstract: A tank rubber cushion for providing a vibration-damping support of a fuel tank against a vehicle body, including two divided rubber cylinders inserted onto an inner axial member having flanges at both axial ends and to be inserted through a mounting hole formed in a support portion of the fuel tank. Each of the divided rubber cylinders is provided with an axial vibration-damping rubber portion arranged between opposing surfaces of the flange of the inner axial member and the support portion in an axial direction, and a transaxial vibration-damping rubber portion arranged between opposing surfaces of the inner axial member and the support portion in a transaxial direction. The transaxial vibration-damping rubber portion includes a concave/convex portion wherein a diameter varies in a circumferential direction so that an assembly can be made with a gap between the inner axial member and the support portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOKAI RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya KAWACHI, Hideki MAEHASHI, Takashi FURUSAWA, Jun KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 8276893
    Abstract: An elastomer-containing rod end isolator. The isolator includes a handle for connection to a load and inner and outer members. The outer member is a pocket and the inner member is spherical or nearly so. The pocket and the inner member are concentric and the inner member has two continuous exterior legs extending in a circular path. An elastomer fills most of the space between members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: SKF USA Inc.
    Inventor: S. Gregory Martin
  • Patent number: 8267384
    Abstract: An annular seal device includes a mandrel, at least one cone axially moveable on the mandrel, at least one sealing element having a frustoconical outer surface and a frustoconical inner surface, at least one contact feature at the at least one cone and operably engageable with the at least one sealing element, and at least one of a blocking element and a resilient member at the mandrel, the at least one of a blocking element and a resilient member supporting a blocking surface in opposition to the at least one contact feature. The resilient member itself includes a tubular body having spring rings at axial ends thereof, and a plurality of beams extending spirally from one axial end to the other axial end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Incorporated
    Inventors: Marcus A. Avant, Rafeal Ramirez
  • Patent number: 8181946
    Abstract: To provide a liquid enclosing type vibration isolating apparatus capable of achieving two resonance characteristics by one orifice path, in a liquid enclosing type vibration isolating apparatus including a main liquid chamber a portion of a chamber wall of which is constituted by a vibration isolating base member, an auxiliary liquid chamber a portion of a chamber wall of which is constituted by a first diaphragm 18, and an orifice path for communicating the main liquid chamber and the auxiliary liquid chamber, an orifice member forming the orifice path is provided with a partition wall for partitioning the orifice path and the auxiliary liquid chamber, and a portion of the partition wall is constituted by a second diaphragm constituted by a flexible rubber-like elastic film facing the auxiliary liquid chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignees: Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kentaro Yamamoto, Seiichi Hamate, Toshiyuki Kitano, Katsuhiro Sakurai, Nobuya Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8172208
    Abstract: A shock mount device for a container includes a variable spring rate assembly coupled to a shock retainer. The variable spring rate assembly is removable from the shock retainer without removing equipment from the container. The variable spring rate assembly includes a replaceable core that may be exchanged with a replaceable core having either a larger or smaller durometer depending on a weight-to-load ration of equipment in the container. Removing and replacing the replaceable core may include removing and replacing the entire variable spring rate assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Environmental Container Systems
    Inventor: Dennis M. Becklin
  • Patent number: 8152146
    Abstract: An elastomeric isolator has an elastomeric body which incorporates an inner structural member and an outer structural member. The elastomeric body includes a shear hub extending between radial flanges defined by the inner and outer structural members that undergoes shearing stresses during deflection of the elastomeric isolator. The inner and outer structural members are designed to provide a travel stop for the elastomeric isolator in order to avoid compression of the shear hub during high loads. The elastomeric bushing can also includes an optional integral elastomeric heat shield which protects the shear hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: The Pullman Company
    Inventor: Troy P. Rodecker
  • Patent number: 8087647
    Abstract: A fluid filled type cylindrical vibration damping device, wherein a circumferential end of a stopper member is formed as a mating element smaller in diameter than a circumferentially center section of the stopper member, and is juxtaposed against and supported on a bottom face of a mating groove in a communication passage, to form the communication passage along an entire area between diametrically opposed faces of the mating element and an outer tubular member. A cutout portion is formed extending in a circumferential direction from a circumferential end in a widthwise medial section of the mating element, with the communication passage opening into and communicating with a first fluid chamber at a distal end section of the cutout portion, and at two widthwise side sections of the mating element, respectively, thereby defining an orifice passage connecting the first fluid chamber with a second fluid chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Endo
  • Patent number: 8070143
    Abstract: A resilient mount including a first mounting member and a second mounting member is provided. The mount includes a first plurality of stiffening elements located between the first and second mounting members. At least a first stiffening element of the first plurality of stiffening elements is non-parallel to a second stiffening element of the first plurality of stiffening elements. Each of the first plurality of stiffening elements has a material thickness and an out-of-plane dimension that is greater than the material thickness. Each stiffening element of the first plurality of stiffening elements is substantially rigid so as to substantially limit the deformation of the stiffening element under load. The mount may also include a resilient material located between and coupled to adjacent stiffening elements of the first plurality of stiffening elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Ross Paul Wietharn
  • Patent number: 8066266
    Abstract: An elastomeric isolator has an elastomeric body which incorporates an inner structural member and an outer structural member. The elastomeric body includes a shear hub extending between radial flanges or end plates of the inner and outer structural members that undergoes shearing stresses during deflection of the elastomeric isolator. The elastomeric body is bonded to the radial flanges or end plates. The inner structural member includes a radial flange which is axially offset from an axial flange of the outer structural member. The outer structural member includes a radial flange which is axially offset from an axial flange of the inner structural member. With this configuration, excessive stresses on the elastomeric body are avoided during high load movements of the elastomeric isolator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: The Pullman Company
    Inventor: Troy P. Rodecker
  • Patent number: 8025274
    Abstract: In an insert bearing part for combining with another insert bearing part structured the same or similar to form an elastomeric insert bearing there is provided a surrounding outer shell featuring a radial portion and an axial portion, an elastomeric body surrounded by the outer shell and a rigid core with an axial throughway for securing the insert bearing, said core protruding axially beyond the axial portion such that when locating the insert bearing part on the other insert bearing part structured the same or similar, the insert bearing parts contact each other substantially at the radial level of the core in forming an axial spacing between opposing axial portions of the insert bearing parts so that the elastomeric body is compressed by the insert bearing parts being brought together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Anvis Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Waldemar Herman, Volker Gruenig, Hermann Sauer
  • Patent number: 7997566
    Abstract: The liquid seal type fluid-filled mount comprises a cup-shaped housing (1) having a flange (1A) provided with a mounting hole; a stud (3) disposed along a central axis of the cup-shaped housing so as to be positioned in a central opening of a fixed damping unit; a flexible seal cap (7) sealing fluid-tight between the upper end of the stud and the cup-shaped housing; a high viscosity liquid (2) for being filled in a chamber formed by the cup-shaped housing (1) and the flexible seal cap (7); a movable damping plate (4) mounted to a lower end of the stud (3); a fixed damping unit (10) being fixed between the flexible seal cap (7) and the movable damping plate (4) and placed in the high viscosity fluid; and a spring (13) disposed between a bottom of the cup-shaped housing (1) and the movable damping plate (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Fukoku Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuo Kuzukawa
  • Patent number: 7918439
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device, a process and an apparatus for manufacturing a silentblock device having a silentblock (4), a seating (2), a shock absorber (3) and a casing (1) having first joining means (120) between the casing (1) and the seating (2) formed by a frusto-conical portion (121) in each end of the casing (1) and a conjugated frusto-conical portion (122) in each end of the seating (2) to clamp the seating (2) to the casing (1). The apparatus has: containment devices (100) for defining a cavity (110) between the surface to be over-injected and the containment devices (100); entrance devices (200) in the containment devices (100), so that the over-injection product can be introduced in the cavity (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Industria Auxiliar Alavesa, S.A. (INAUXA S.A.)
    Inventor: Agustin Morales Arnaez
  • Patent number: 7866640
    Abstract: A bush includes an inner cylinder, an outer cylinder, a cylindrical elastic member interposed between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder, a flange formed on one edge of the outer cylinder, and an elastic brim extending from the cylindrical elastic member. The flange engages with one end face of the cylindrical member, and the elastic brim covers an end face of the flange. The flange includes a thick portion that protrudes toward the elastic brim side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tuyoshi Funano, Takuya Yanagida
  • Patent number: 7857293
    Abstract: A fluid filled type vibration damping device includes a fluid chamber divided by a partition member into a pressure-receiving chamber and an equilibrium chamber. The partition member has a first and a second member axially superposed together. A locking projection is formed on one of the first member or the second member and a locking hole is formed on an other, with the locking projection being inserted through the locking hole to effect locking so as to constitute a locking mechanism for holding the first and second member in a superposed state. Outer circumferential faces of the first member and the second member held in the superposed state by the locking mechanism are fastened fitting into a second mounting member via a seal rubber layer, and the first or second member having the locking hole includes a cover portion that covers an opening of the locking hole from a side thereof to which the locking projection projects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mutsumi Muraoka
  • Patent number: 7810797
    Abstract: A fluid filled vibration damping device including an elastic body connecting a first and second mounting member, a pressure-receiving chamber defined by the elastic body and an equilibrium chamber defined by a flexible rubber film. The second mounting member is press fitted into a tubular holder member having an annular holding portion integrally formed at its lower end projecting radially inwardly. A cover plate member having an outside diameter smaller than an inside diameter of the holder member is disposed within the holder member with an outer peripheral portion is fixedly clamped by the second mounting member and the annular holding portion. A sealing rubber is disposed for fluid-tightly closing a gap formed between the clamped portion so that an tightly closed air chamber defined by the cover plate member is formed on a back side of the flexible rubber film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadamitsu Minamisawa
  • Patent number: 7798464
    Abstract: This is a mounting support that secures an electrostatic marking machine to the deck of a ship or other structure. This support provides vibration-isolating systems for shipboard mounting of these marking machines. The US Navy has imposed strict one-man, short-time requirements to mount and unmount electrostatic marking machines on a ship's deck. A key feature of the present embodiments is a double-threaded stud that lifts the machine off the floor onto the isolation mounts while securing it to the mount which is bolted to the ship's deck. The present configuration satisfies the new Navy mandate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventor: Charles R. Brewer, III
  • Patent number: 7731164
    Abstract: The invention relates to a damping device, in particular for mounting a support plate (10) comprising a cylindrical damper unit (12) with a main axis (A) that comprises a top radial flange (20s) and a bottom radial flange (20i) which are cylindrical and each of which is accommodated by one side in a horizontal plate (18) of the plate (10), wherein the plate (10) comprises at least one cylindrical flange (26s, 26i) supported by the horizontal plate (18) which extends opposite the outer cylindrical surface (20e) of an associated flange (20s, 20i). characterized in that the flange ring (26s, 26i) comprises a concave inner cylindrical surface (26a) which is capable of resting radially against a convex outer cylindrical surface (20e) of the flange (20s, 20i), in at least one overall horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Stéphane Jourdain, Olivier Godard, Jérôme Valliere, Pascal Morin
  • Patent number: 7722018
    Abstract: A subframe bearing and method of forming same is provided with a subframe (12) having a main section between a first engagement flange (30) and a second engagement flange (32), an inner tube (2), an outer tube (4) and an elastomer bushing (6), as well as a stop plate (16). The elastomer bushing is vulcanized with the inner tube (2) and the outer tube (4) defining a bushing subassembly. The outer tube has a main section (42), an angled transition portion (44) and a step portion (40). The outer tube continues axially from the main section (42) to a stop flange (20). The elastomer bushing (6) has a bulged outer surface portion (36) extending continuously and uninterrupted outwardly of the angled transition portion (44) and extending continuously and uninterrupted outwardly of the step portion (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: ZF Lemförder Metallwaren AG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Meyerboeck, Barry Graul, Val Moreno
  • Patent number: 7604223
    Abstract: The liquid seal type fluid-filled mount comprises a cup-shaped housing (1) having a flange (1A) provided with a mounting hole; a stud (3) disposed along a central axis of the cup-shaped housing so as to be positioned in a central opening of a fixed damping unit; a flexible seal cap (7) sealing fluid-tight between the upper end of the stud and the cup-shaped housing; a high viscosity liquid (2) for being filled in a chamber formed by the cup-shaped housing (1) and the flexible seal cap (7); a movable damping plate (4) mounted to a lower end of the stud (3); a fixed damping unit (10) being fixed between the flexible seal cap (7) and the movable damping plate (4) and placed in the high viscosity fluid; and a spring (13) disposed between a bottom of the cup-shaped housing (1)and the movable damping plate (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Fukoku Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Mitsuo Kuzukawa
  • Patent number: 7540479
    Abstract: There is provided a vibration damping device including; a pair of rubber arm portions connecting an inner fitting and an outer fitting to each other in the horizontal direction; and a rubber leg portion connecting in the vertical direction; the paired rubber arm portions are formed so that the thickness thereof decreases gradually from the inner fitting side toward the outer fitting side, and the rubber leg portion is formed so that each of both side surfaces is formed by an inwardly depressed curved surface, and is formed into a curved broaden shape toward the outer fitting side. Thereby, a spring constant in the horizontal direction is increased advantageously while a spring constant in the vertical direction kept large, and the durability of the rubber elastic body can be increased effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Okanaka, Kouichi Maeda, Tsutomu Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 7416174
    Abstract: A mount assembly having a first carrier and a second carrier with each of the carriers being coupled to a frame of a vehicle. A first insulator abuts the first carrier and a second insulator abuts the second carrier for isolating movement of the frame relative to the vehicle body in a first direction. The first insulator is formed of microcellular polyurethane having a non-linear modulus of elasticity. An intermediate insulator is also mounted to the frame of the vehicle. The intermediate insulator is formed of rubber having a substantially linear modulus of elasticity. The intermediate insulator may include a structural insert encapsulated by the rubber. The intermediate insulator further isolates the movement of the frame relative to the vehicle body in the first direction to provide two different rates of elasticity. The intermediate insulator also isolates movement of the frame relative to the vehicle body in a second direction transverse to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: Cooper Standard Automotive
    Inventors: Daniel G. Dickson, Wesley C. Fog, Neil J. Oberley