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US 2001/0054523 A1Published application
Antivibration support, and a vehicle including such a support
AssigneeHutchinson
InventorsFranck Larmande, Jacques Dandre, Pascal Petit
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Abstract
An antivibration support has a first strength member which includes a limit finger and two parallel support fingers, a second strength member which includes a cage surrounding the limit finger in part, and an elastomer link device interposed between the outside of the cage and the support fingers.
Claims7
An antivibration support for interconnecting first and second rigid elements to support a permanent axial load applied between said first and second rigid elements along a first axis, and to damp vibration between said first and second rigid elements, the antivibration support comprising:
- first and second rigid strength members for connecting to the two rigid elements that are to be united, the first strength member having at least one limit finger which extends along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis and which is surrounded at least in part by a rigid cage belonging to the second strength member, said cage having an outer surface facing away from the limit finger and an inner surface facing towards the limit finger, which inner surface is adapted to co-operate with said limit finger by coming into abutment therewith to limit relative movements between the first and second strength members along said first axis and along a third axis perpendicular to the first and second axes, the first strength member having at least one support member presenting a bearing face looking substantially along the first axis towards the limit finger, and the rigid cage of the second strength member being interposed between said bearing face and the limit finger;
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- an elastomer link device connecting the outer surface of the rigid cage to the bearing surface of the support member, the elastomer link device being adapted to support said permanent axial load, and said elastomer link device having two arms which extend along the first axis from the second strength member and which diverge along the third axis until they reach the first strength member;
- wherein the two arms of the elastomer link device are connected respectively to two distinct support fingers belonging to the first strength member, said support fingers being disposed longitudinally parallel to the second axis and being offset on either side of the limit finger, the support fingers and the limit finger being formed as a single piece.
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