Device for suspending the body and the engine-drive unit in an automobile vehicle
AssigneesAutomobiles Peugeot, Regie Nationale des Usines Renault
InventorsRobert Le Salver, Dominique Poupard
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Abstract
Two series of separate elastically yieldable blocks having different stiffnesses are disposed between the damper and the vehicle body and between the damper and the engine-drive unit. The accelerations transmitted to the body and to the engine are then substantially equal. In this way, the relative movements between the engine-drive unit and the body and the resulting vibrations are reduced while the noises transmitted by the engine through its suspension are also reduced.
Claims9
An elastically yieldable suspension device comprising a body of an automobile vehicle, a unit comprising an engine-drive assembly or engine of the automobile vehicle, a wheel assembly of the vehicle, a suspension member connecting the wheel assembly to the body, a damper having a lower part bearing against the suspension member and an upper part, the upper part and lower part being relatively movable in operation of the damper, a first elastically yieldable block elastically connecting said upper part to the body, and a second elastically yieldable block elastically connecting the upper part of the damper to said unit to support said unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.