Rotary damper
AssigneeAudi AG
InventorMarco Willems
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Abstract
Rotary damper (1) for a motor vehicle, with at least one damping element (2) for damping the relative movement between a first mass disposed on the wheel suspension side and a second mass disposed on the vehicle body side. The damping element (2) has at least one rotatable damper part, which can be set in rotation by a lever element (5) that moves as a result of the motion of the mass and is mechanically coupled to the damping element to permit motion, wherein at least one spring damping element (6) is integrated into the mechanical motion-coupling between the lever element (5) and the rotatable damper part.
Claims14
1-11. (canceled)
A rotary damper for a motor vehicle, comprising:
- at least one hydraulic or electric damping element for damping the relative movement between a first mass arranged on a wheel-suspension-side of the motor vehicle and a second mass arranged on the vehicle-body-side of the motor vehicle, wherein the at least one damping element comprises at least one stationary damper part and at least one rotatable damper part, which is supported for rotation about the at least one stationary damper part and generates a damping force,
- a lever element that is mechanically motion-coupled to the rotatable damper part and moved by movement of the first and second masses imparting a rotational movement on the at least one rotatable damper part, and
- at least one spring damping element integrated between the lever element and the at least one rotatable damper part to provide mechanical motion-coupling between the lever element and the stationary damper part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.