Coil assembly for an actively controlled damping valve
AssigneeAdvanced Suspension Technology LLC
InventorsFredrik Larsson, Håkan Malmborg
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Abstract
An actively controlled valve assembly and a method for assembling an actively controlled valve assembly comprising a coil housing, a valve housing, an intermediate member and a resilient locking member which is to be pre-tensioned into a pre-tensioning aperture, where the intermediate member comprises a guiding projection for pre-tensioning the resilient locking member which assures that it is brought into the correct position when the assembly is in the final assembled position where the resilient locking member is locked in a locking aperture of the valve housing.
Claims15
A method for mounting an actively controlled damping valve assembly, comprising:
- fitting a resilient locking member to an outer surface of a coil housing,
- inserting a valve housing into a first end of an intermediate member so that an outer surface of the valve housing abuts an inner surface of the intermediate member,
- inserting the coil housing into a second opposite end of the intermediate member,
- pre-tensioning the resilient locking member into a pre-tensioned state in a pre-tensioning aperture of said outer surface of the coil housing by moving the coil housing relative said intermediate member,
- axially moving the coil housing relative said valve hosing into a final assembled position, and
- receiving said resilient locking member into a locking aperture of said valve housing and thereby locking the coil hosing with the valve housing in the final assembled position.
An actively controlled damping valve assembly for a vehicle, comprising:
- a valve housing with an inner surface,
- a coil housing with an outer surface for abutting said inner surface of the valve housing,
- a resilient locking member for locking said valve housing to said coil housing in a final assembled position, and
- an intermediate member for guiding and pre-tensioning said resilient locking member,
- wherein
- said intermediate member comprises a guiding projection for guiding said resilient locking member into a pre-tensioned state in a pre-tensioning aperture of said outer surface of the coil housing when the coil housing is moved relative said intermediate member, and
- said inner surface of said valve housing comprises a locking aperture for receiving said resilient locking member when said valve housing is axially moved relative said coil housing into the final assembled position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.