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US 2015/0353163 A1Published application
Flexible members and flexible member attachment pockets for a vehicle suspension system
AssigneeLauf Forks Ehf
InventorBenedikt SKÚLASON
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Abstract
This invention relates to a vehicle suspension system where two or more flexible members are arranged in a non-planar way with a distance there between. These flexible members are being rigidly mounted between a frame structure of a vehicle and a wheel structure of the vehicle and the arrangement of the flexible members is so as to provide guided suspension and being resistive against forces other than those in the intended direction of the suspension movement.
Claims15
A front wheel vehicle suspension system comprising:
- a frame structure including a two legged fork,
- wherein the front wheel vehicle suspension system further comprises:
- a wheel structure comprising wheel structure beams positioned posterior to the two legged fork,
- two sets of at least two spaced apart flexible members extending between the respective one of said two legs of said two legged fork and said wheel structure beams such that said two sets of flexible members are located on respective lateral sides of a suspended wheel,
- wherein each of said wheel structure beams comprises hub mounts located above one or more out of said at least two flexible members on each side of the suspended wheel and below one or more out of said at least two flexible members on each side of the suspended wheel and where said hub mounts are positioned opposingly to each other and are adapted to receive a connection to one another via the hub of the suspended wheel, where each of said flexible members is mounted into attachment pockets in said two legged fork and said wheel structure beams.
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A front wheel vehicle suspension assembly comprising:
- a two legged fork,
- wherein the front wheel vehicle suspension assembly further comprises:
- a wheel structure comprising wheel structure beams adapted to be positioned posterior to the two legged fork,
- two sets of at least two spaced apart flexible members adapted to extend between the respective one of said two legs of said two legged fork and said wheel structure beams such that said two sets of flexible members are located on respective lateral sides of a suspended wheel,
- wherein each of said wheel structure beams comprises hub mounts adapted to be located above one or more out of said at least two flexible members on each side of the suspended wheel and below one or more out of said at least two flexible members on each side of the suspended wheel and such that said hub mounts are positioned opposingly to each other and are adapted to receive a connection to one another via the hub of the suspended wheel, where each of said flexible members is adapted to be mounted into attachment pockets in said two legged fork and said wheel structure beams.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.