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US 2006/0138741 A1Published application
Vehicle suspension systems
AssigneeHMT Vehicles Limited
InventorValerian Dare-Bryan
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Abstract
A vehicle suspension system includes an airbag (10) arranged to act substantially horizontally so as to apply a substantially horizontal force to a horizontally movable force-transmitting member (12) and a parallelogram linkage (16, 17, 18, 19) that acts between the force-transmitting member (12) and a part (14) of the vehicle chassis (10).
Claims6
A vehicle suspension system for a vehicle having a chassis, the suspension system including:—
- a) a horizontally movable force-transmitting member,
- b) an airbag arranged to act substantially horizontally so as to apply a substantially horizontal force to the horizontally movable force-transmitting member,
- c) a parallelogram linkage that acts between the force-transmitting member and a part of the vehicle chassis,
- d) the parallelogram linkage including a rocker pivotally connected at its one end to said part of the vehicle chassis for pivotal movement relative thereto about a substantially horizontal pivot axis, and
- e) a push rod connected at its one end to the rocker at a position intermediate the ends of the rocker.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.