Abstract: An anti-earthquake support device arranged between an element of large mass and a fixed support, comprising roller elements arranged between support parts forming roller tracks inclined with respect to the horizontal plane. The roller elements are cylindrical rollers (14,15,17) arranged horizontally in two superposed sets of rollers with perpendicular axes. The support parts (4,10 and 11) are entirely independent of one another and are arranged above one of the sets of roller for the first (4), between the two sets of rollers for the second (10) and beneath the second set of rollers for the third (11). The corresponding roller tracks (9, 20, 21 and 24) are formed on either the lower, or the lower and upper, or the upper surfaces of the three support parts (4, 10 and 11), respectively. The invention is used for the support of a fuel assembly rack for a nuclear reactor on the bottom of the storage pool of such reactor.

Abstract: A resilient supporting member for an exhaust gas catalytic converter which has a thin plate of ceramic fiber, an edgewise peripheral base formed by pressing a laminate formed by folding a cylindrical unit of knitted or looped fabric made of stainless steel fine wires and folding the thin plate, and an erected peripheral end erected from the base in an L shape in section. Thus, the resilient supporting member can effectively prevent the exhaust gas from entering into the air gap passage in the catalytic converter.

Abstract: In a hydraulic support, especially for supporting and damping engines for motor vehicles, including a rubber-elastic hollow body which is adhesively connected at its upper end, along its circumference, to a metallic ring which is closed by a cover arranged at its end face, the cover having a first abutment, and which is adhesively connected at its outside surface to a second metallic abutment, the hollow body being divided by an internal nozzle system into first and second chambers which are connected to each other, the rubber-elastic hollow body has, at its lower end, an integral cup portion which defines the second chamber of the hydraulic support and the second abutment is a generally cylindrical member surrounding the cup portion, the upper end of the cylindrical member being connected to the portion of the wall of the hollow body defining the first chamber, the lower end of the cylindrical member closed off and the inside diameter of the cylindrical member being larger than the outside diameter of the cu

Abstract: Relative axial motion of a pair of strut members is converted into rotation of an escapement mechanism, which in turn oscillates a balance wheel. If the rotational velocity exceeds a predetermined minimum, the balance wheel inertia initiates a momentary motion snubbing action.The device used to convert reciprocation of the strut members into rotary motion is releasable so as to permit the operational testing of the motion snubbing mechanism while the strut is mounted in its operational environment.

Abstract: An engine mounting has a first armature, a second armature, a bellows interposed between the first and second armatures, and an inertia mass. The inertia mass is mounted on the bellows and vibrates independently with the first and second armatures. A partition wall formed with a passageway is disposed within the interior of the bellows and divides same into two chambers. A valve is mounted on the partition wall to open or close the passageway. The valve is responsive to a difference in pressure between the two chambers and decreases the effective area of the passageway during vibrations of the bellows with large amplitudes.

Abstract: A rubber vibration isolator is disclosed, which comprises a pair of upper and lower liquid chambers capable of changing volumes by elastic deformation of an annular rubber elastomer accompanied with longitudinal vibration, a restricted passage for communicating these chambers with each other, at least two liquid chambers formed in the outer periphery of the elastomer and capable of changing volumes accompanied with lateral vibration, and another restricted passage for communicating the latter chambers with each other.

Abstract: An engine mounting for suspending an engine relative to a vehicle structure. The engine mounting comprises a first armature for connection to the engine and a second armature for connection to the vehicle structure and a bellows interposed between the first and second armature to define therewith a closed enclosure. The closed enclosure is filled with pressuzied gas. An inertia mass is mounted on the bellows. A mass of the inertia mass and an apparent spring constant of the bellows are selected such that the inertia mass vibrates in inverse phase relationship with the phase of vibration of the first armature when the engine operates within a vibration insulated domain.

Abstract: The invention relates to damped elastic supports, comprising essentially, between two bases fixable to assemblies to be supported on one another, on the one hand a flexible wall defining one chamber designed to cooperate with another chamber and, on the other hand, at least one fluid-flow restricting orifice. This assembly is also completed outwardly by two elastic domes of elastomer combined with one mass. The assembly of this mass with another mass and with the damper device and the elastic membranes is calculated so as to permit a certain flexibility to be maintained, both for low frequencies and high frequencies. The invention is particularly applicable to automobile engine supports.

Abstract: Two-chamber motor mount with hydraulic damping, especially for vehicles, including an upper and lower chamber having rubber-elastic walls and being filled with liquid, the upper chamber being of hollow conical construction, a holding flange disposed between the walls of the upper and lower chambers, an intermediate plate formed with a throttle orifice located in vicinity of the holding flange, the upper and the lower chambers being connected to one another through the intermediate plate with the throttle orifice for preventing an hydraulic response for high frequency vibrations of small amplitude, the intermediate plate being responsive to high frequency vibrations of small amplitude and the throttle orifice being automatically closeable at high pressures.

Abstract: A viscous spring damper including inner and outer members connected by an elastomeric shear spring and having a main fluid chamber defined therebetween for communication with a second fluid chamber in the inner member through a restricted orifice. The members are relatively movable for stressing the shear spring and varying the volumes of the chambers while fluid is transferred therebetween through the restricted orifice. An elastomeric bladder within the second fluid chamber is selectively chargeable with gas pressure for calibrating the damping characteristics, varying the initial spring rate or leveling a vehicle on which the damper is installed. Axially-spaced circumferential wear rings on the bladder minimize bladder abrasion against the inner wall of the inner member.

Abstract: This invention relates to a device for eliminating vibrations of a driver's chair.The device according to the invention is characterized in that it comprises a carrying frame, a cradle located within the carrying frame and carrying the driver's chair. The cradle is provided with a number of rotatably supported pulleys and is carried relative to the carrying frame in that the pulleys contact at least two wires or ropes supported by the carrying frame. One end of the wires is secured resiliently in the carrying frame, and the wires extend transversely to the driving direction for the vehicle, in which the device is to be mounted. A damping arrangement is also provided between the cradle and carrying frame.

Abstract: A viscous spring damper for damping and levelling structural agitation comprising a first outer member joined to a connecting member by a first elastomeric shear spring, the first outer member including a first fluid chamber and a first elastomeric diaphragm. A second outer member is joined to the connecting member by a second elastomeric shear spring and includes a second fluid chamber and a second elastomeric diaphragm. The connecting member is comprised of a plurality of elastomeric flexible sections which are disposed to form a main fluid chamber communicating with the first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber, and further includes restrictive orifice for restricting the flow of fluid in the main fluid chamber.

Abstract: A resilient support device for mounting an oscillating body on a support structure comprises a tubular support body having an internal chamber which is filled with a damping liquid and defined at one end by a base of the tubular support body and at the other end by an annular elastomeric diaphragm. The outer surface of the diaphragm is fixed to the tubular support body and its inner surface is connected to a shank which is carried by an attachment member connected coaxially to the tubular support body by an annular elastomeric element. At its inner end, the shank has a transverse disk which is immersed in the damping liquid.

Abstract: At least one confined chamber is formed by one and the other mounting fixtures and by a wall of rubber elastomer hermetically connecting the two fixtures, and a pump chamber made operative to effect a pumping action in response to the vibrations of the one mounting fixture is formed separately of the aforementioned confined chamber so that the atmosphere is pumped into the confined chamber from that pump chamber.In the damper support thus constructed, since the air is pumped into the inside when in the vibrations of low frequency, the damping factor can be made large. Even in the vibrations of high frequency, the dynamic spring constant can be made small.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for mounting a carried element on a carrying element in an automotive vehicle or the like. The device comprises a resiliently deformable support secured to two frame members so as to define a fluid-tight chamber, the chamber containing a fluid and being divided into two portions by a separating partition formed of a resilient annular portion affixed to one frame member and which carries a block member having at least one orifice through which the fluid is adapted to pass from one chamber portion to the other. The block member has a certain inertial mass such that the resilient portion will oscillate substantially following the displacement of the carried element when the latter vibrates at a frequency less than a particular frequency but will oscillate independently of the displacement of the carried element when the latter vibrates at a frequency greater than the particular frequency.

Abstract: This invention relates to electric heaters of the type consisting of a flat convoluted loop or coil adapted to be arranged in an opening in a cooktop and, more particularly, to a support system wherein means are provided for cushioning vibrations resulting from relative movement between the convoluted heater and the support system.

Abstract: A seat suspension system, which includes a height adjustment valve for positioning a seat at a desired height in response to manual positioning of a height adjustment lever by controlling the amount of hydraulic fluid supplied to a cylinder having a piston therein coupled to the seat, provides damping of vertical motion of the seat by an accumulator coupled to the cylinder via a conduit so as to receive the hydraulic fluid from the cylinder and two different valves disposed in the conduit. A manually adjustable flow control valve has an adjustable orifice within the conduit for providing the seat with a nominal amount of damping.

Abstract: A damper comprises a plurality of armatures between which an elastic block is interposed. A partition plate divides the interior bore of the elastic block into two chambers. The chambers are filled with a working fluid and communicate with each other through an orifice providing a restricted flow communication and also through holes providing an unrestricted flow communication. A valve is provided to close the holes to prevent the unrestricted flow communication.

Abstract: Samples of body fluids such as blood, urine, etc. are passed for analysis through separating columns to extract the desired component from the raw sample. Unwanted ingredients of the sample flow through the resin bed to a refuse cup. The retained desired component is later released from the resin bed by a solvent and collected in a recovery cup. Fluids passing through the resin bed are selectively passed to the refuse cup or recovery cup by flexing a disklike support for the resin bed. Preferably the support is flexed by applying a differential gas pressure across the support.An apparatus for implementing this method includes in a flexible disk, adapted to hold separating columns, suspended across an opening of a vacuum chamber. The outside edges of the disk form a seal for the chamber. The separating columns are in vertical alignment with waste receptacles disposed in a second disk positioned below the first disk.

Abstract: An engine mounting for relatively heavy engines has a lower member (2) adapted to be secured to the vehicle chassis (3), and an upper member (7) which is connected to the engine, the upper and lower members being cooperatively associated together by way of at least one rubber shear spring member (6). In order to construct such an engine mounting, without a high level of expenditure, in such a way that it is also possible to damp low-frequency, high-amplitude oscillations and to avoid damping, and the resulting transmission of noise, in respect of high-frequency, low-amplitude oscillations, a hydraulically acting springing and damping device (12) is additionally arranged between the lower member (2) and the upper member (7) of the engine mounting (1).

Abstract: A vibration damping bushing having an energy absorbing sleeve positioned about an inner sleeve and within an outer sleeve. The energy absorbing sleeve has first and second cavities positioned diametrically opposed along the axis of force applied to the bushing, and has a connecting passageway interconnecting the cavities, these cavities containing a vibration damping fluid. The passageways serve as restrictive flow orifices to restrict the flow of the fluid between the cavities, and to thereby dampen the vibration of the outer sleeve with respect to the inner sleeve.

Abstract: An earthquake isolation floor comprises a horizontal plate-like support frame having a generally polygonal configuration, a support frame having a horizontal surface with a similar configuration to that of the fundamental frame in plan view, but of relatively smaller dimensions and slidably mounted thereon, and horizontal tensile springs disposed between the fundamental and support frames each in a prestressed condition such that when the support frame is moved relative to the fundamental frame by an earthquake, etc. the springs are caused to be elongated by the fact that their one end in the direction of the movement does not encounter any resistance to the movement, while the other end opposite to the movement is prevented from moving.

Abstract: A viscous spring damper including inner and outer members connected by an elastomeric shear spring and having a main or first fluid chamber disposed therebetween for communication with a second fluid chamber in the inner member through a restricted orifice. The inner and outer members are relatively movable for stressing the shear spring and varying the volumes of the chambers while fluid is transferred therebetween through the restricted orifice. An elastomeric bladder within the second fluid chamber is selectively chargeable with gas pressure for calibrating the damping characteristics, varying the initial spring rate or leveling a vehicle on which the damper is installed. An elastomeric diaphragm is included in the main fluid chamber for providing a selectively chargeable diaphragm gas chamber.

Abstract: A feedback control type shock absorbing suspension system is inserted between a body including a vibration source and a foundation for suspension of the body. The absorbing system includes a suspending spring mechanism. A sensor mechanism detects velocity of relative movement between the body and the foundation. A cylinder-piston mechanism includes a cylinder connected to one of the body and the foundation and a piston connected to the other of the body and the foundation. Magnetic fluid or powder is held between the inner wall of the cylinder and the outer wall of the piston. An exciting coil generates magnetic flux for magnetizing the magnetic fluid or powder. An electric circuit applies to the exciting coil a control voltage which corresponds to the detected value of the sensor mechanism. The vibration-damping force between the cylinder and the piston is controlled by magnetizing the magnetic fluid or powder.

Abstract: Relative axial motion of a pair of strut members is converted into rotation of a shaft which drives a rotatably mounted inertia element. Rotation of the shaft in the opposite direction drives a second rotatably mounted inertia element. The inertia elements are interconnected by a coil spring with the result that the inertia element driven directly by the shaft drives the other inertia element. At a predetermined acceleration, the inertia element driven by the spring will lag, and this lagging motion is used to actuate a braking action to limit the acceleration.

Abstract: The top frame of a vehicle seat is fitted with upper longitudinal guides for slidably mounting the frame on an articulated system which serves to displace the seat in a vertical direction while also permitting horizontal displacement of the seat in sliding motion. The upper guides are locked in any desired longitudinal position by means of catches and may be disengaged by means of a release control member.

Abstract: A shock and vibration isolation system having a plurality of isolators supporting a utilization device is disclosed. Each isolator has two gas driven pistons, pivotally mounted in a frame and is connected to an accumulator/controller that supplies controlled amounts of pressurized gas. A sensor in each isolator senses the position of the utilization device with respect to a base sitting on the ground, and the accumulator/controller adds gas to or exhausts gas from the pistons to counteract changes in position detected by the sensor. An electronic control circuit is connected between the sensor and the accumulator/controller to supply a properly compensated signal from the sensor to control the accumulator/controller.

Abstract: Earthquake protector for protecting apparatus such as a circuit-breaker. The apparatus to be protected is mounted on a support member (2) which is connected to a plate assembly via jack 4. The plate assembly is supported on a base member (8,9) itself firmly connected to a foundation 1 on the ground. The plate assembly comprises a first plate (3) and a second plate (17) which are horizontally movable relative to the base member. The first plate has a first sole plate (5) on its lower surface which engages a second sole plate (7) on the other surface of the base member. Said sole plates are arranged to present a very low coefficient of friction to relative horizontal motion. The second plate (17) is fast with the first plate (3) and is connected therebelow by a connection means (15) passing through corresponding openings in the sole plates (5 and 7).

Abstract: A vehicle seat suspension for isolating vertical ride vibrations at low frequencies normally found in larger tractors or other vehicles, and to do this without penalty of large static deflection normally required to obtain similar isolation in the typical mass-spring damper isolation suspension system.

Abstract: Elastic rubber engine mounts with hydraulic damping are provided, especially for engine suspensions in motor vehicles. The mounts comprise two separated liquid-filled chambers, defined in part by elastic rubber-like peripheral walls adheringly connected with end walls and with a centrally disposed supporting element for connection to an engine supporting frame. The liquid chambers are separated by an elastic rubber-like partition connected with the supporting element, and flow connection between the two chambers is provided by perforations or choke openings in the partition. The rigid end walls of the two chambers are rigidly interconnected. Arrangements are provided for minimizing or avoiding hydraulic damping of oscillations of low amplitude and high frequency, while providing hydraulic damping for oscillations of large amplitude and low frequency.

Abstract: A mechanical, seismic-shock-absorbing snubber adapted to accept extremely high impact loads that may be imposed upon it by reason of its interposition between heavy, relatively moveable structures. While permitting essentially unrestricted, slow, relative motion between the structures, such as may be caused by thermal effects (e.g., the expansion or contraction of a high pressure steam pipe yieldably attached by way of hangers or supports to a building structure as in a nuclear power plant), the snubber limits both the velocity and acceleration of relative motion between the structures such as might result from violent seismic shock or vibration. The snubber employs, as its damping mechanism, an escapement wheel, which rotates in response to relative movement of the structures between which the snubber is interposed and employs a cooperating, pivoted, pallet member of predetermined effective mass driven by the escapement wheel into oscillation.

Abstract: A high-voltage installation comprises a support structure including a supporting member from which at least one electrical high-voltage apparatus, for example a transformer or inductor, is suspended. The apparatus is suspended from the supporting member by at least one electrically-insulating suspension member, for example an insulator chain, which includes resilient means allowing relative movement between the apparatus and the supporting member.

Abstract: An elastically yieldable block structure comprising a block of elastomer interconnecting two armatures and defining at least two cavities which are filled with liquid and communicate with each other. One cavity is a main center cavity which is provided in the block and has walls which have a high resistance to the inner pressure of the liquid and the other cavity is a lateral cavity which communicates with the center cavity. At least a part of the lateral walls of the lateral cavity or cavities has a low resistance to the inner pressure of the liquid.

Abstract: A vibration isolator (10) includes an outer housing (14) with an inner housing (16) supported for reciprocation therein. The inner housing (16) includes an elastomeric spring (32) supporting a sleeve or inner cylinder (30) with a passage (44) extending therethrough interconnecting a pair of spaced apart chambers (40,42) defined between the housings (14, 16). A tuning mass including liquid is disposed in the chambers (40,42) and the passage (44). The inner housing (16) functions as a piston to move the tuning mass through the inner cylinder (30) between the chambers (40,42) and generate amplified counter-inertial forces to cancel vibration.

Abstract: A vibration snubber for earthquake protection of piping including an auxiliary cylinder axially slidable in a main cylinder having a large diameter portion. The large diameter portion houses a flywheel which is secured to a rotatable center shaft. One end of the shaft is mounted in a bearing in the cylinder end. The other end is threaded and screwed into a conventional screw nut fixed on one end of the auxiliary case. A spacing collar is provided between the flywheel and the bearing. The inner end surface of the large diameter portion has a chamferred friction bearing surface. A movable wheel is rotatably and slidably mounted on the spacing collar. The movable wheel is cylindrical, concentrically surrounding the flywheel. A spring mounted between a spring-receiving ring on the movable wheel and a spring-receiving flange on the flywheel presses the movable wheel against the flywheel.

Abstract: A device for floatably supporting a portion of a heat exchanger core to a shell for accommodating thermal expansion while damping oscillatory movement of the core.

Abstract: Elastic rubber engine mounts with hydraulic damping are provided, especially for engine suspensions in motor vehicles. The mounts comprise two separated liquid-filled chambers, defined in part by elastic rubber-like peripheral walls adheringly connected with end walls and with a centrally disposed supporting element for connection to an engine supporting frame. The liquid chambers are separated by an elastic rubber-like partition connected with the supporting element, and flow connection between the two chambers is provided by perforations or choke openings in the partition. The rigid end walls of the two chambers are ridgidly interconnected. Arrangements are provided for minimizing or avoiding hydraulic damping of oscillations of low amplitude and high frequency, while providing hydraulic damping for oscillations of large amplitude and low frequency.

Abstract: A notched-energy absorber for attenuating high level accelerations such as ould occur during aircraft crashes, thereby avoiding injury to a user. The energy absorber force-displacement curve has a large initial spike, followed by a valley or "notch" and then by a constant force level intermediate the spike and valley levels. In one embodiment, a conventional square-response type shock absorber is connected between a vehicle seat and the vehicle body by a shearable diaphragm fixed to vehicle structure. The diaphragm shears at a notch when it experiences an initial high force, after which the conventional absorber moves freely without deforming until it encounters a stop. The conventional absorber then elongates or compresses in a conventional manner. In an alternative embodiment, a spring is connected between the seat and the vehicle body. Initially, the spring is compressed by experienced forces until at a predetermined force level it forces out a retaining clip or ring.

Abstract: For apparatus, such as voltage surge arresters, having frangible elements, a mounting structure with springs that permit minor, harmless motion of the apparatus and a collapsible frame that yields in a ductile failure mode upon occurrence of movement exceeding that which can be absorbed by the springs before damage to the apparatus occurs.

Abstract: A vibration-absorbing mount with hydraulic damping, especially for mounting an internal-combustion engine upon a vehicle chassis, comprises a housing subdivided internally by an elastic wall which is connected with the force-transmitting member of the mount and is formed with an orifice enabling fluid to pass between the two chambers. For small pressure differentials, the pressure equalization between the two chambers is effected substantially by transfer of fluid through the orifice while large pressure differentials, representing high frequency oscillations, are damped primarily by deformation of the movable wall.

Abstract: A vibration damping mechanism particularly useful for accommodating both gradual displacements of piping or similar structures such as can be caused by thermal deformation and rapid vibrations such as can be caused by earthquakes or other externally applied forces. The mechanism comprises two housing portions movable relative to each other, one of the housing portions being attached at one end thereof to a stationary structure, such as a wall of a buidling, while the other housing portion is attached to a section of piping whose movement is to be damped. Substantially concentric wheel members are disposed internally of one of the housings, the wheel members being spring-biased relative to each other, to absorb both gradual and rapid displacements of the piping relative to the stationary structure.

Abstract: A tuned absorber for torsional vibrations with hydrostatic damping comprises relatively rotatable outer and inner members defining primary chambers therebetween, a damping liquid in the primary chambers, springs or gas cushions arranged in secondary chambers to exert no torque on the outer and inner members, and connections between the chambers for permitting liquid to flow from the primary chambers to the secondary chambers for applying liquid pressure to the springs or gas cushions in the secondary chambers.

Abstract: A support arrangement is used for elastically mounting a monolithic ceramic honeycomb structure within a housing in an exhaust gas pipe and consists of a holding angle and a molded part formed of a soft, flexible material. The holding angle is rigidly secured to the inner surface of the housing with one of its legs extending along the wall of the housing and the other extending radially inwardly from the inner housing surface. The molded part is rigidly secured to the inner end of the other leg of the holding angle and extends from its point of rigid securement in generally the same direction as but spaced inwardly from the one leg of the holding angle. At its end opposite the end secured to the holding angle, the molded part is bent radially outwardly into sliding contact with the inwardly facing surface of the holding angle. The combination of the holding angle and molded part form a cavity which may be filled with a heat-resistant material.

Abstract: A rubber elastic engine mount with hydraulic damping, especially for motor vehicles, includes an elastic peripheral wall on the engine side joined with a metallic end wall that can be connected with an engine casing, and joined also with a metallic supporting element that can be connected to an engine supporting frame. The elastic wall together with the end walls forms a liquid-filled main chamber which is closed off by a partition connected with the supporting element, and which is connected with an auxiliary liquid-filled elastic walled chamber on the other side of the partition. The auxiliary chamber may be constructed generally the same as the main chamber, including an elastic peripheral wall joined with the supporting element and with a metallic end wall relatively away from the engine. The two end walls are rigidly connected. The peripheral walls function as thrust springs. The partition may be rigid and stationary, or it may be movable.

Abstract: The device comprises two armatures one of which is for connection to a support and the other is for connection to a suspended element. A block of elastic material is interposed between, and defines with, the two armatures a closed enclosure. A partition wall provided with at least one calibrated orifice is mounted by the periphery thereof on a first of the armatures and divides the enclosure into two chambers. A liquid fills one of the chambers and at least a part of the other chamber. The partition wall has a part which is movable with respect to the first armature in a direction perpendicular to the mean plane of the partition wall. The first armature has a stop for limiting the extent of the movement of the partition wall.

Abstract: A vibration damper of the type including a supporting flange, a pair of damping elements applied, respectively, against an upper and a lower face of the supporting flange, a mounting flange supported on the upper damping element and an abutment which is applied against the lower face of the lower damping element. The mounting flange has a central part extending through the damping elements and the supporting flange and connecting the mounting flange to the abutment. The connecting part is fixed both rotationaly and axially to the mounting flange and is connected to the abutment by a screw-thread. The abutment is secured against rotation relatively to the supporting flange and is preferably located with respect to the supporting flange to permit axial movement of the abutment relatively to the supporting flange.

Abstract: A relatively stiff spring cooperating with an oil film resists inertial, gearing, and chucking loads and reduces the inertial forces generated by the operation of a rotatable shaft. The rotatable shaft is mounted directly in conventional ball bearings that in turn are mounted in engagement with the inner of two concentrically mounted cylindrical members, wherein the concentrically mounted members have facing walls radially displaced to form an annular cavity therebetween. The outer of the two cylindrical members is in engagement with and supported to the housing. Interconnecting the two cylindrical members is a flange spring that also serves as an end wall for a reservoir in communication with the annular cavity. The reservoir and the annular cavity are filled with a dampening fluid, such as a lubricating oil, to serve as a cushion for axially and radially directed force transfers between the two concentrically mounted members.