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US 2026/0189101 A1Published application
Motor Mount and Damper
AssigneeAeroVironment, Inc.
InventorWilliam John Nicoloff
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Abstract
A system having a damper with six or more indentations on alternating sides of the damper, where each indentation is open to an outer circumferential surface of the damper and extends over halfway through a width of the damper, and six or more slots, each slot open to an undulating inner circumferential surface of the damper and extending through the width of the damper.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a damper comprising one or more indentations;
- a motor mount, the motor mount comprising one or more tabs,
- wherein the one or more tabs of the motor mount are configured to be seated in the one or more indentations of the damper;
- and
- wherein an air space remains in at least one of the one or more indentations after the one or more tabs are seated in the one or more indentations of the damper.
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A method comprising:
- seating one or more tabs of a motor mount in one or more indentations of a damper;
- and
- providing an air space in each of the one or more indentations after the one or more tabs are seated in the one or more indentations of the damper.
A system comprising:
- a damper comprising:
- one or more indentations configured to be open to an outer circumferential surface of the damper;
- and
- one or more slots configured to be open to an inner circumferential surface of the damper;
- a motor mount comprising one or more tabs, wherein the one or more tabs of the motor mount are configured to be seated in the one or more indentations of the damper;
- and
- a motor comprising one or more fins, wherein the one or more fins of the motor are configured to be seated in the one or more slots of the damper,
- wherein a width of an aperture of the motor mount, a height of the fins of the motor protruding from a lower face of the motor up to a front face of the motor, and a width of the damper are the same.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.