Suspension thrust assembly
AssigneeAktiebolaget Skf
InventorsHui Zhou, Christophe Houdayer, Francois De Lemps
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Abstract
A suspension thrust assembly, the suspension thrust assembly including a damping component and a rigid component, the damping component being overmolded and formed to the rigid component; the damping component including a damping radial portion; the rigid component including a rigid radial portion; where a ring-shaped damping component protrusion is provided on the damping radial portion, a ring-shaped rigid component groove is provided on the rigid radial portion, and the damping component protrusion is fitted in the rigid component groove.
Claims17
(canceled)
A suspension thrust assembly comprising a damping component and a rigid component, the damping component being overmolded and formed to the rigid component,
- wherein the rigid component includes a rigid radial portion having a rigid component groove;
- wherein the damping component includes a damping radial portion having a ring-shaped damping component protrusion, the damping component protrusion being fitted in the rigid component groove;
- wherein a plurality of groove bosses and/or a plurality of groove blind holes are provided on a bottom of the rigid component groove;
- wherein a plurality of damping component bosses and/or a plurality of damping component blind holes are provided on a top of the damping component protrusion;
- and
- wherein the plurality of damping component bosses are fitted with the corresponding plurality of groove blind holes, and/or the plurality of damping component blind holes are fitted with the corresponding plurality of groove bosses.
A suspension thrust assembly comprising a damping component and a rigid component, the damping component being overmolded and formed to the rigid component,
- wherein the rigid component includes a rigid radial portion having a rigid component groove;
- wherein the damping component includes a damping radial portion having a ring-shaped damping component protrusion, the damping component protrusion being fitted in the rigid component groove;
- wherein the damping component includes a damping axial portion;
- wherein the rigid component includes a rigid axial portion;
- and wherein either:
- a) the damping axial portion is provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced stepped bosses and the rigid axial portion is provided with a plurality of circumferentially spaced stepped through holes and each of the stepped bosses is fitted in a respective one of the stepped through holes or b) the rigid axial portion is provided with the plurality of circumferentially spaced stepped bosses and the damping axial portion is provided with the plurality of circumferentially spaced stepped through holes and each of the stepped bosses is fitted in the respective one of the stepped through holes.
(canceled)
A suspension thrust assembly comprising a damping component and a rigid component, the damping component being overmolded and formed to the rigid component.
- wherein the rigid component includes a rigid radial portion having a rigid component groove;
- wherein the damping component includes a damping radial portion having a ring-shaped damping component protrusion, the damping component protrusion being fitted in the rigid component groove;
- wherein at least one ring-shaped groove convex rib and at least one ring-shaped groove concave rib are provided on the bottom of the rigid component groove, and at least one ring-shaped damping component convex rib and at least one ring-shaped damping component concave rib are provided on the top of the damping component protrusion;
- wherein the groove convex rib and the groove concave rib are spaced apart in a radial direction;
- and
- wherein the damping component convex rib and the damping component concave rib are spaced apart in the radial direction.
A suspension thrust assembly comprising a damping component and a rigid component, the damping component being overmolded and formed to the rigid component;
- wherein the damping component includes a damping radial portion with a ring-shaped damping component thereon,
- wherein the damping component has an annular shape and defines a damping component bore therethrough;
- wherein the rigid component includes a rigid radial portion,
- wherein the rigid component, circumferentially, has a non-constant axial length,
- wherein the rigid component includes a rigid component groove,
- wherein the damping component is located within the rigid component groove such that an axial end of the damping component is configured to face away from a suspension spring,
- wherein the rigid component forms a radially outermost surface of the suspension thrust assembly,
- wherein the rigid component includes a rigid axial portion which extends through the damping component bore, and
- wherein the rigid axial portion includes a plurality of through holes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.