Trunnions Or Flexible Supports On Opposite Sides Of Machine Patents (Class 248/659)
  • Patent number: 11648833
    Abstract: A support bracket for mounting a power train includes a bracket body including an engaging hole formed to insert an engaging bolt of a power train mount, an insert portion formed adjacent to the engaging hole, and a pocket formed adjacent to the insert portion, and an engaging nut inserted in the insert portion along the insert direction to engage the engaging bolt, and a stopper configured to prevent the engaging nut from separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, MAHLE DONGHYUN FILTER SYSTEMS CO., LTD
    Inventors: Seung Hun Choi, Daejung Kim
  • Patent number: 9283839
    Abstract: A fitting arrangement for fitting a drive package (1) for a vehicle, the arrangement includes a supporting element (2) to be mounted on the drive package (1). The supporting element (2) has an end element (6), which cooperates with the vehicle's frame (4) to support the drive package (1). The end element abuts upon a cooperating bearing element which is suspended relative to the frame (4). At least one screw (10) cooperates with the end element (6), to fix the supporting element (2) to the vehicle's frame (4) via the bearing element (8). A washer (12) cooperates with the screw (10) to fix the supporting element (2) to the frame. A spacing element (14) cooperates with the screw (10) to keep the washer (12) in a horizontal position above the bearing element (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SCANIA CV AB
    Inventor: Erik Andersson
  • Patent number: 8262052
    Abstract: A seating and locking system for turbomachinery attached to the customer column housing the turbomachine. The seating and locking system includes two or more actuated pistons that push against a piston seat or locking groove of the turbomachine. The actuated pistons secure the turbomachine within the costumer column to prevent the turbomachine from moving and getting damaged. The seating and locking system further includes a seat attached below the customer column with two or more spring loaded rods. The seat forces the customer column and the turbomachine to remain fixed to the bottom of the vessel housing the customer column and the turbomachine. Embodiments can be used with pumps, expanders, turbines, compressors, and fans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Ebara International Corporation
    Inventor: Keijun Kamio
  • Patent number: 6585222
    Abstract: In a vibration isolator wherein an inner and an outer cylindrical fittings are connected by a rubber elastomer between both fittings; in the rubber elastomer above and below the inner cylindrical fitting, hollow spaces are formed circumferentially in a larger width, in a cross-section square to the axial direction, than an outside diameter of the inner cylindrical fitting; and lateral portions as support arms of the rubber elastomer between the hollow spaces support the inner cylindrical fitting to the outer cylindrical fitting, in order to lower the dynamic spring rate in the lateral direction square to the axial direction and facilitate the tuning of rigidity, without changing the vibration-isolating characteristics in the vertical direction and without deteriorating the durability, small vacancies are provided in the lateral portions at a distant position inboard from the outer cylindrical fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Toyo Tire and Rubber Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ihara, Hironori Kato
  • Patent number: 6247383
    Abstract: A two-part torque-compensating suspension for a transmission 2 mounted around the shaft 1 of a machine. The suspension includes a rocking plate 3. The rocking plate is preferably symmetrical with respect to a plane extending through the shaft. The plate is fastened to the non-moving parts of the transmission and connected to fixed pedestals 8. Two levers 5 extend between the rocking plate and the pedestals. The levers' inner arms are connected by a secondary connecting rod 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: A. Friedr. Flendep AG
    Inventor: Gil-Hwan Chun
  • Patent number: 6155372
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a suspension system for a power train in which vehicle vibration when idling can be reduced and thus improves in giving more comfort in riding in the vehicle.A power train assembled an engine and a transmission is supported by a left side mount, a right side mount, a front mount and a rear mount, from a body frame. The left side mount and the right side mount are located in the front direction than the vertical surface including the roll main axis of inertia of the power train.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Naoto Hirasaka
  • Patent number: 6098949
    Abstract: A mounting arrangement for attaching a hydraulic control unit of a vehicular braking system to a vehicle body includes a mounting stud attached to and extending axially outward from the hydraulic control unit. The mounting stud also includes axially and laterally extending surfaces. A bracket is secured to a selected portion of the vehicle body. The bracket is provided with a mounting arm having a hole through which the mounting stud extends. The bracket also includes a recessed portion surrounding the hole and axially spaced from a main portion of the arm. The recessed portion and the main portion are connected by a transitional portion. A grommet is located between the mounting arm and the mounting stud. The grommet engages both the recessed portion and the transitional portion of the mounting arm and engages the axially and laterally extending surfaces of the mounting stud for supporting the hydraulic control unit in both axial and lateral directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Kelsey Hayes Company
    Inventor: David S. Robinson
  • Patent number: 5873560
    Abstract: The present invention is a gimbal system for an apparatus supported in a frame. The gimbal system includes at least two parallel flexible beams positioned on either side of the apparatus. The apparatus is attached to the beam near a center of the beam to the apparatus, such that an active length of the beam is equal to a distance between the beams centers. A first end and a second end of the beam is mounted to the frame. At least one dampening mechanism is attached at a first end to the apparatus and at the other end to the frame. The apparatus exhibits axisymmetric roll stiffness independent of the motion of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Chrysler Corporation
    Inventors: Luka Serdar, Jr., Gary M. Colello, Clifford Gunsallus, William Doolittle
  • Patent number: 5725195
    Abstract: A trunnion mount for a fluid-actuated cylinder assembly which has a pair of opposed trunnion pins carried by a framework with a plurality of separate pieces that can be easily assembled onto the cylinder tie rods without having to disassemble the cylinder assembly. The frame pieces have a tongue at one end and a complementary groove at the opposite end and are assembled end-to-end to form the framework with an open center to accommodate the casing tube of the cylinder. The pieces have complementary gripping portions adjacent each end that releasably clamp the framework to the tie rods. Thus, the framework can be attached to the cylinder without disassembling it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Inventor: Jonathan P. Cotter
  • Patent number: 5509837
    Abstract: An engine mount for supporting an inboard powerboat engine on a light marine craft. The present invention teaches an inboard, truss engine mount for marine engines, tailored for supporting the weight of the engine in spaced, transverse fashion along weight distributing supports situated along the chines of the watercraft. The present invention is particularly suitable for use in mounting an inboard engine in conjunction with lightweight aluminum boats traditionally referred to as skiffs of flatboats, which typically are of a length of about 7-22 feet. The present system allows the utilization of inboard engines with a boat which traditionally relied upon outboard engines affixed to the transom, as the weight of inboard engines could not be supported by the floor of the light weight boats. However, the present system overcomes this problem, by distributing the weight in a novel fashion, while taking advantage of the relative strength and rigidity of the chines in this type of watercraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Inventors: Walter E. Allbright, Jr., Tim Nowlin
  • Patent number: 5462465
    Abstract: A marine transmission mounting system for marine engine and drive that are mounted in a mid-travel position to joists in the hull space between a hull and a floor of the boat. Such a system is typically used on a competition water-ski boat where the engine, transmission, and propeller shaft are mounted in-line at a downward angle with respect to a floor of the boat such that the propeller shaft passes through the hull of the boat in front of the transom. The transmission mounting system includes a transmission mounting bracket having reinforcement webs located above the span of the bracket so that smaller reinforcement webs can be located below the span of the bracket. With such a bracket, there is sufficient room underneath the bracket so that an engine exhaust tube can pass under the bracket. This allows overall engine and exhaust system space requirements above the floor of the boat to be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventor: Keith W. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5390758
    Abstract: A motorcycle has a frame, a swing arm pivotally mounted on the frame about a pivot axis, a wheel rotatably mounted on the swing arm and an engine pivotally mounted on the frame about the pivot axis. A first elastomer engine mount couples the engine to an upper portion of the frame and a second elastomer engine mount couples a lower portion of the engine to a lower portion of the frame. The engine mounts are spaced from each other and the pivot axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: Harley-Davidson, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy G. Hunter, John J. Myers, Paul C. Wiers
  • Patent number: 5390893
    Abstract: An easy to assemble mounting for the cylinders and drums of printing machines is provided which at the same time reduces journal flexing and guarantees a high degree of rigidity in the drive wheel train. The stub journal of a cylinder is received in the collar of a driving wheel. The collar is rotatably supported in a bearing disposed in one of the press side walls and the collar is connected to the journal by means of connecting elements including a centering plate, locating pins and appropriate screws.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Assignee: MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Harald Bayer, Klemens Kemmerer
  • Patent number: 5370349
    Abstract: The invention relates to a structure for positioning an object in a three-dimensional coordinate system.The object of the invention is to obtain a structure making it possible to orient an object in space without displacing its center of gravity.This object is achieved with the aid of a structure incorporating a support (5), at least five slings (7, 9, 11, 13, 27) for suspending the object (1) on said support (5) and means (33) for regulating the length of each sling.This structure more particularly makes it possible to position a tactical missile with an anechoic or dead room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle
    Inventors: Jean-Claude Bousquet, Bernard Maupetit, Michel Auroux, Gerard Goninet
  • Patent number: 5332187
    Abstract: An arrangement is provided for the adjusting of a mounting part on a carrier in a statically determined position which can be adjusted in a rotatory and translatory manner in three axes with respect to the carrier. The arrangement comprises at least three adjusting units which are arranged in an offset manner with respect to one another between the carrier and the mounted part, each of which comprises two connecting parts which can be translatorily adjusted relative to one another in two axes and are constructed to be rotatorily in three axes as well as translatorily in one axis freely movable sloped to the adjusting plane of the connecting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1994
    Assignee: Deutsche Aerospace AG
    Inventors: Arno Voit, Franz Sperber
  • Patent number: 5297769
    Abstract: The invention proposes a hydroelastic support (10) intended to be interposed between two assemblies to be suspended one with regards to the other, of the type comprising two armatures (12, 14) joined together by a block of elastomer material (16), a working chamber (26) and an expansion chamber (33), connected together by a communication passage (34), and of the type in which the working chamber (26) is delimited in part by a movable diaphragm (30) whose external face (42) comprises a push-rod (44) with which there cooperates a device of the connecting-rod (50) and crank (62, 66) type for driving the movable diaphragm, in which the small end (54) of the connecting-rod (50) is connected to the push-rod (44) and in which the shaft (66) for driving the crank (62) in rotation is mounted so as to turn in a bearing (70) fixed to one (12) of the two armatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignees: Automobiles Peugeot, Automobiles Citroen
    Inventors: Marcel Le Fol, Pascal Robic
  • Patent number: 5253841
    Abstract: An apparatus to isolate vibration during printing by a printer of a computer or a word processor, including vibration control swingable devices provided at their bearing portions, where the printer is mounted, with concave-surface bases extending in parallel to a direction of movement of a printing head of the printer and with rollers connected to the bearing portions which operate rolling motion on the concave-surface bases. The vibration control swingable devices may also include swing mounts for swinging the bearing portions in parallel to the direction of movement of the printing head. Thus, the vibration caused by the printer during printing can be isolated from other associated instruments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1993
    Assignee: Sanwa Supply Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuya Yamada
  • Patent number: 5197341
    Abstract: The testing device, also known as a totally integrated payload attitude control tester (T.I.P.A.C.T.), is suspend on a single, high strength, low torsional moment line through the gravity vector axis. Attached directly to this line is a strong back assembly having a fixed lateral width with ends thereon. Attached to the ends of the strong back assembly are thin, high strength straps which are connected to a pair of tensile universal joints which are further connected to, by way of this high strength straps, to a pair of trunnions. The trunnions are connected to the payload support frame which may have a satellite payload therein. The three orthogonal axes of the test device allow rotation to .+-.45 degrees, .+-.60 degrees and >360 degrees, simultaneously in roll, yaw, and pitch respectively. The thin fabric strap allows movement with virtually no friction or suspension resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Russell G. Steeves
  • Patent number: 5129479
    Abstract: A suspension system includes an engine and transmission assembly mounted transversely in a vehicle and having a main axis of moment of inertia extending in a left and right direction of the vehicle, a single first mount located at a first end of the engine and transmission assembly and at least one additional mount located in the vicinity of an opposite second end of the assembly. The center of gravity of the assembly is located on a main axis of moment of inertia of the assembly extending between the first and second ends and is closer to the first end than to the second end. The mount is a bushing-type mount and is oriented so that the central axis of the mount extends parallel to the main axis of moment of inertia of the assembly so that the mount supports the assembly in a front and rear direction of the vehicle to suppress rocking of the assembly during acceleration and deceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi Fujii, Tetsuya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 4905956
    Abstract: A fluid mount for an inboard marine engine includes a combination of a solid elastomer and a fluid dampening means to significantly improve vibration isolation and cushioning under normal shock loads. The fluid dampening means is constructed to lock-up and become inoperative under heavy shock loads to protect the mount against overload failure. An improved mounting system utilizing the fluid mounts optimizes the performance thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Alvin R. Zemlicka, Robert R. Radtke
  • Patent number: 4883369
    Abstract: A mounting device for a roll, particularly a roll for a continuous casting apparatus, comprises a support and a bearing for the roll affixed to the support, the support and the bearing defining channels for the circulation of a cooling fluid therethrough, the support and bearing channels being in communication with each other across a plane of support of the bearing on the support through respective ends of the channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1989
    Assignee: Dujardin Montbard Somenor
    Inventors: Daniel Jude, James T. Stull
  • Patent number: 4852748
    Abstract: A ferris wheel shaped frame having a plurality of fixture storage locations along its periphery is used to store a plurality of fixtures. The fixtures are held in place by a pivoting member comprising a pivotable sleeve, and a latch comprising a removable nut and bolt assembly. When a fixture is to be used, it is unlatched and pivoted away from the frame so that the operator is unhampered during a work operation by the storage assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: William C. Burgess, Gary L. Jochum, David Goetzinger, David A. Beckius
  • Patent number: 4850448
    Abstract: An engine and transmission mounting system has mounts which support the weight of the engine and transmission and which dampen vertical vibrations due to operation of the internal-combustion engine. A separate torque reaction mechanism reacts torque generated in the transmission directly against the vehicle chassis while permitting free vertical movement of the engine and transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: Paccar Inc.
    Inventor: Donald L. Stephens
  • Patent number: 4842258
    Abstract: A composite engine mount includes first and second members and an elastic member. The second member defines a space into which one portion of the first member extends. A first stopper rubber for providing a front and rear, left and right and rebound stopper is fixed to the one portion of the first member. Due to the structure, an assembly of the mount and brackets to be fixed to the first and second members can be made small. Such a mount is suitable for use in a left-hand and a right-hand engine mount for a transversely mounted engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Misaka, Sadafumi Fukumura
  • Patent number: 4779834
    Abstract: A three-point torque strut connected between an engine and support resists rolling of the engine by reactive torque thereon while inducing with a portion of the reactive torque force from the engine a bending moment in the support that counteracts against the remainder of the reactive torque force transmitted by the strut from the engine tending to twist such support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald O. Bittner
  • Patent number: 4770398
    Abstract: An engine mounting device resiliently supports an engine on a frame including a first plate member for connection to the frame. A second plate member is U-shaped and has flanges at each end of the U-shaped portion for connection to the first plate member and the frame. A tubular member is disposed between and spaced from the first plate member and the second plate member. A resilient member interconnects the tubular member and the first and second plate members for resiliently supporting the tubular member between the first and second plate members. The first plate member includes a plurality of raised ribs laterally spaced one from the other and forms an arch-shaped opening for receiving a first end of the resilient member to prevent lateral movement of the resilient member. The resilient member has a second end arcuate and complimentary to the U-shaped portion of the second plate member to prevent lateral and radial movement of the resilient member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1988
    Assignee: The Standard Products Company
    Inventor: Ping Lee
  • Patent number: 4717111
    Abstract: A fluid-filled resilient engine mount including an inner and an outer sleeve which have axes parallel to each other, and a resilient member which is interposed between the inner and outer sleeves and which cooperate with the outer sleeve to define a plurality of fluid chambers which communicate with each other through at least one orifice. The engine mount further includes a stopper block of an elastic material positioned in a radially outer portion of each fluid chamber, and fixed relative to the outer sleeve and the resilient member. The stopper block has an abutting portion which protrudes in the corresponding fluid chamber toward the inner sleeve. The abutting portion is spaced from a bottom of the corresponding void, and is abuttable on the bottom, thereby preventing an excessive amount of elastic deformation of the resilient member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Siro Saito
  • Patent number: 4679778
    Abstract: A fluid-containing power unit mounting device capable of effectively damping vibration in a wide range of frequency is shown. The damping function of the device is accomplished by a mounting rubber forming an internal fluid-containing chamber between a power unit and a chassis, a partition plate dividing the chamber and including a plurality of valve mechansims in series and an orifice communicating between both sides of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1987
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kinugawa Rubber Ind. Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshikazu Tabata, Yoshinari Fujiwara, Norio Yoda, Hiroshi Aikawa
  • Patent number: 4648576
    Abstract: A mounting structure disposed between a body and a power unit of a vehicle, including a cylindrical housing having two cavities on opposite side of a partition member, and a first and a second elastic member which close open ends of the cavities to form a first and a second variable-volume fluid chamber which are filled with an incompressible fluid. The first and second fluid chambers communicate with each other through an orifice which permits a restricted flow of the fluid therethrough. The elastic members and the orifice enable the mounting structure to damp or absorb vibrations applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsu Matsui
  • Patent number: 4641809
    Abstract: A motor vehicle engine mount is disclosed comprising a core of a solid material placed between two parts made of elastomeric material, each of which is connected to a rigid outer part attached to the engine or the chassis. The core is determined to vibrate at a frequency corresponding to that of the engine and in a direction substantially counter to the vibration of the engine and is shaped relative to the outer parts such that a reduction occurs in the distance separating it from the outer parts in one of the vibration directions, leading to an increase in the spring rate of the mounting arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1987
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Wilhelm Beer
  • Patent number: 4637584
    Abstract: A fluid-containing power unit mount device in which an elastic member is secured between a power unit side base plate and a vehicle body side base plate to form an inner space. A fluid is enclosed in the inner space, forming a fluid chamber. An aperture is provided in one of the base plates, and this aperture is blocked by an elastic member on which is mounted a mass body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1987
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shin Takehara
  • Patent number: 4630803
    Abstract: A suspension-strut mounting for installation between a shock-absorber strut or spring strut and a vehicle body spring-supported with respect to the axles, with at least one connecting element having elastically resilient and vibration damping properties which is connected both with the body as also with the piston rod of a shock-absorber of the shock-absorber strut or spring-strut; an additional vibration damper is provided in parallel with the connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Werner, Frank Knothe, Paul Graf, Henning Wallentowitz, Hans-Hermann Keller, Alfred Kist
  • Patent number: 4625939
    Abstract: An engine mounting arrangement is disclosed having brackets attached to a vehicle body adapted for connection to damping blocks attached to an engine. Each bracket supports two slidable spring-loaded clamping pieces with teeth that coact with teeth of an intermediate piece that is attached to the respective damping block and is adapted to be inserted between the clamping pieces from below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Dieter Bergelt
  • Patent number: 4624435
    Abstract: A mount, for example for mounting an engine in a vehicle, has a resilient vibration isolator and, separate therefrom, an electro-magnetically controllable vibration-damping arrangement. In this way, the damping can be controlled independently of the isolation, for example in response to the amplitude of the vibrations only to isolate resiliently small-amplitude vibrations, but damp fully large-amplitude, road-bump vibrations which could damagingly shake the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Inventor: Tillmann Freudenberg
  • Patent number: 4611782
    Abstract: A vibration isolating apparatus employed for mounting, for example, the engine of an automobile includes a tube communicated with a hollow chamber which is expanded and contracted by vibrations generated in the engine. The tube is provided therein with a mass member which has a larger density than that of a fluid sealed inside the hollow chamber. The mass member is movable by means of the circulation of the fluid inside the tube. Accordingly, the mass member encourages the occurrence of resonance of the fluid inside the tube, whereby the vibrations are absorbed by means of the air-column resonance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Takao Ushijima, Takeshi Noguchi
  • Patent number: 4610421
    Abstract: An engine-transmission assembly is supported in an engine room of a vehicle by two elastic support devices supporting it substantially at opposite ends of its rolling axis of inertia and two other elastic support devices supporting it substantially at opposite ends of its pitching axis of inertia. The major part of the weight of the engine-transmission assembly may be borne by the two elastic support devices on the rolling axis of inertia, which may be simple rubber block type support devices; and the two elastic support devices on the pitching axis of inertia may be of a type able to present variable spring constant and/or damping coefficient, optionally according to the driving conditions of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yoshio Ohta, Tadashi Kimura, Kiyoteru Ijichi, Masaaki Takizawa
  • Patent number: 4610420
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus for a power unit comprises a first elastic member comprising a rubber-like elastic member and a second elastic member comprising rubber-like elastic members and a mass member therebetween. The first and second elastic members are disposed in parallel, wherein the weight of mass member can be changed or the second elastic member can be functionally engaged and disengaged with the first elastic member so that the reduction of the spring constant or oscillation transmitting rate is obtained just above the resonant frequency of the second elastic member while the degrading of the oscillation transmitting can be prevented below the resonant frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masao Fukushima, Shin Takehara
  • Patent number: 4537381
    Abstract: An engine mount for resiliently connecting an engine to a vehicle body. The engine mount has an isolator and a bracket. The isolator includes an inner tubular member, an outer tubular member, and a resilient member arranged between the inner and the outer tubular members. The outer tubular member is fixedly connected to the bracket, which is fixedly connected to the engine. The inner tubular member is fixedly connected to the vehicle body. A weight member is connected, at a position opposite to the position of connection of the outer tubular member to the bracket, to the outer tubular member via resilient members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shigeharu Arai
  • Patent number: 4494723
    Abstract: A device, for mounting an engine on a vehicle body, comprising a mount insulator which has a shaft fixed onto the vehicle body. A hollow cylindrical rubber ring, surrounded by a cylindrical metallic outer member, is inserted onto the shaft. A dish-shaped insulator bracket is fixed onto the cylindrical outer member of the mount insulator. A dish-shaped engine mount bracket is fixed onto the engine body. The insulator bracket has inclined wall portions at the opposed ends thereof. Each of the inclined wall portions has a threaded hole formed thereon. The engine mount bracket has inclined wall portions at the opposed ends thereof. Each of the inclined wall portions has a slot formed thereon. When the engine mount bracket and the insulator bracket are superimposed in order to assemble the engine to the engine body, the engine mount bracket is just fitted onto the insulator bracket, and the threaded bores of the insulator bracket are aligned with the corresponding slots of the engine mount bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 22, 1985
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinzo Kobuki, Hazime Kubota, Tsuneo Miyamaru
  • Patent number: 4492366
    Abstract: An elastically damping device for the suspension of an engine comprises a conical first fluid chamber which is formed in the bottom portion of a frustoconical elastically deformable block, and a second fluid chamber which is formed on the upper surface of the block by fixing the open end of an elastically deformable thin sheet thereto. The top portion of the first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber are interconnected to each other by way of an open passageway which is formed in the block. The first fluid chamber, the second fluid chamber and the open passageway are filled with a liquid. This device is supported on a body of a vehicle by a first supporting plate which is connected to the under surface of the block and the engine is mounted on the block by a second supporting plate which is connected to the upper surface of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 8, 1985
    Assignee: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Ozawa, Yukio Aono, Masato Ueno
  • Patent number: 4491304
    Abstract: An engine mount device comprises first and second base plate members; an elastic block securely interposed between the first and second base plate members and formed with a cavity; a partition plate member connected to one of the first and second base plate members and formed with an orifice; a diaphragm member connected to the one of the first and second base plate members and defining an auxiliary chamber between it and the partition plate member, the auxiliary chamber being in communication with the fluid chamber through the partition plate member orifice, at least a part of the fluid and auxiliary chambers being filled with a fluid; and a rigid ring disposed around the intermediate section of the elastic block thereby restricting the expansion of the elastic block; the elastic block and the rigid ring serving as a dynamic damper for damping vibration having predetermined frequencies, thereby rendering unnecessary installing the dynamic damper independent from the engine mount device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventors: Toshihiko Kakimoto, Keizo Konishi, Teruo Yonehama, Takao Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4485999
    Abstract: Coaxial inner and outer tubular members are mutually supported by a resilient tubular elastic intermediate member mounted between them. A main plate is formed with a fixing portion substantially corresponding in shape to a first fixing portion of the outer member and fixed thereto and with a protruding portion extending outwards, and extends parallel to the central axis. A bracing plate is formed with a fixing portion fixed to a second fixing portion of the outer member and with a protruding portion extending outwards, and is also parallel to the central axis. The extreme ends of the protruding portions of the main and bracing plates are fixed together. A planar filler plate extends perpendicularly to the central axis at an axially intermediate position along the main and bracing plates and spans between the tubular outer member and the main and bracing plates with its peripheral edge abutting against axially intermediate portions thereof and with its major portion fixed thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1984
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masahiro Isobe
  • Patent number: 4467992
    Abstract: A power-unit mounting structure for mounting a power unit such as an internal combustion engine on the body structure of an automotive vehicle, comprising a plurality of shock and vibration dampening units each comprising a resilient insulator block securely connected between the body structures of the vehicle and the power unit, wherein the shock and vibration dampening units include a pair of shock and vibration dampening units, the respective insulator blocks of which are disposed in such a manner as to produce shear stresses in directions parallel with each other and inclined with respect to the vehicle body structure at a predetermined angle of, preferably, 45 degrees to vertical and horizontal planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1984
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventors: Hiroaki Morimura, Hideki Minami, Shunichiro Kanai
  • Patent number: 4456213
    Abstract: An engine mounting structure for mounting an automotive engine on the body structure of an automotive vehicle, comprising two rigid coupling members one of which is connected to the vehicle body structure and the other of which is connected to the body structure of the engine, two resilient blocks securely attached to the coupling members, respectively, and having interposed therebetween an intermediate member carrying an inertia member at the free end of the intermediate member, and a resilient block interposed between the intermediate member and one of the two coupling members, wherein the spring constants of the three resilient blocks, the weight of the inertia member and the location of the third resilient block on the intermediate member are selected, by preference, in such a manner as to reduce the vibrations to be transmitted from the engine to the vehicle body during cruising of the vehicle at relatively high speeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masao Fukushima, Komei Yazaki
  • Patent number: 4445662
    Abstract: An engine mounting structure for mounting an automotive engine on the body structure of an automotive vehicle, comprising the parallel combination of a main oscillatory system adapted to damp vibrations produced by the engine during medium-speed cruising of the vehicle and an auxiliary oscillatory system adapted to cancel the vibrations to be transmitted through the main oscillatory system under high-speed cruising conditions of the vehicle for reducing booming noises to be produced in the vehicle cabin under such conditions. The auxiliary oscillatory system comprises at least one mass member and at least two resilient blocks structurally intervening between the mass member and the main oscillatory system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masao Fukushima, Komei Yazaki
  • Patent number: 4440375
    Abstract: An engine mounting structure for mounting an automotive engine on the body structure of an automotive vehicle, comprising the parallel combination of a main oscillatory system adapted to damp vibrations produced by the engine during medium-speed cruising of the vehicle and an auxiliary oscillatory system adapted to cancel the vibrations to be transmitted through the main oscillatory system under high-speed cruising conditions of the vehicle for reducing booming noises to be produced in the vehicle cabin under such conditions. The auxiliary oscillatory system comprises at least two rigid mass members and at least three resilient blocks structurally intervening between the main oscillatory system and the mass members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventors: Masao Fukushima, Komei Yazaki
  • Patent number: 4403762
    Abstract: A mount is disclosed mounting an internal combustion engine in a unitized vehicle body. The mount comprises an intermediate mass which is independent of the vehicle structure and the powertrain and is adapted to be frequency tuned. Separate elastomeric bodies couple the intermediate mass to the vehicle structure and to the powertrain and the intermediate mass is predetermined in combination with the elastomeric characteristics of the coupling bodies so as to resonate at a frequency within an uncoupled intermediate frequency range such that the transmissibility of the mount is attenuated substantially throughout a high frequency range to reduce vehicle structure noise caused by the engine's combustion process while satisfying other transmissibility criteria at the lower frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1983
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: James A. Cogswell, II, Donald E. Malen
  • Patent number: 4399974
    Abstract: Between two elastic resilient blocks are disposed in parallel first and second vibration absorbers. The first absorber is an air-filled annular tube which absorbs a high-frequency small-altitude vibration which is transmitted from the engine to the vehicle body, while the second absorber is an elastic resilient block which absorbs a low-frequency large-altitude vibration which is transmitted from the vehicle body to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1983
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Company, Limited
    Inventor: Hirofumi Takei
  • Patent number: 4327679
    Abstract: A reciprocating-piston i.c. engine is supported on a supporting structure by means of mountings which are attached, not to the crankcase wall, but to the main bearing structure of the engine, by means of rigid support members which extend through flexibly-sealed apertures in the crankcase wall and are rigidly secured to the main bearing blocks. The crankcase wall is thus isolated from vibrations generated by internal moving parts of the engine, and the deformations of the crankcase by such vibrations, and hence the level of noise generated by the crankcase wall, are reduced. Where a longitudinal stiffening beam is secured to the bottom bearing blocks of the main bearing structure, some of the rigid supports of the mountings may be attached to the stiffening beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: Ricardo Consulting Engineers Limited
    Inventors: Alan R. Crouch, Samuel Lesley
  • Patent number: 4263964
    Abstract: Arrangements for supporting a heat exchanger core within a steel frame structure by a hanger system utilizing flexible members pivotably coupled to overhead support beams. Balancing beams are employed to equalize the load transmitted through the system to the support beams. These support systems permit the heat exchanger core to expand in all directions from thermal growth without restraint relative to the frame structure, thereby minimizing thermal fatigue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1981
    Assignee: The Garrett Corporation
    Inventors: John F. Masai, Fred W. Jacobsen