Air suspension assembly and bellows for an air suspension assembly

An air suspension assembly comprising:

• a top and a bottom disposed on a center axis and spaced apart from one another;
• a piston disposed on said center axis spaced from said top;
• a bellows extending about said center axis between a first end secured to said top and a second end secured to said bottom connecting said top and said bottom defining a chamber extending between said top, said bottom, and said bellows;
• said bellows having an interior surface and an exterior surface and including a plurality of convolutes extending between said first end and said second end;
• said chamber containing pressurized air in fluid communication with said piston, with said pressurized air controlled based on a force applied to said air suspension assembly;
• a damper connected to said piston and moveable between a compressed position and an undeformed position of the air suspension assembly;
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• a jounce bumper connected to said top for absorbing energy of said damper when said air suspension assembly is compressed, with said damper compressing said jounce bumper in said compressed position and said damper spaced from said jounce bumper in said undeformed position.

A bellows for an air suspension assembly, said bellows comprising:

• an interior surface and an exterior surface;
• a first end secured to a top of said air suspension assembly and a second end secured to a bottom of said air suspension assembly connecting said top and said bottom defining a chamber extending about a center axis between said top, said bottom, and said bellows;
• a plurality of convolutes extending between said first end and said second end;
• each of said plurality of convolutes extending between a pair of outer lobes spaced from one another along said center axis, with said outer lobe having an outer lobe thickness extending between said interior surface and said exterior surface of said bellows;
• an inner lobe disposed radially inwardly from said outer lobes and between said outer lobes, with said inner lobe having an inner lobe thickness extending between said interior surface and said exterior surface of said bellows, wherein said outer lobe thickness and said inner lobe thickness are approximately equivalent;
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• a bridge portion extending between said inner lobe and each one of said pair of outer lobes, with said bridge portion having a bridge portion thickness extending between said interior surface and said exterior surface of said bellows;
• wherein each of said outer lobe thickness and said inner lobe thickness is greater than said bridge portion thickness.