Hydraulically damped resilient mounting

A hydraulically damped resilient mounting, comprising:

• a hollow cylindrical housing that is closed off on opposite sides by resilient elastomeric elements to form an interior of said housing;
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• a partition that has an outer peripheral surface provided by a first wall having a peripheral edge and a second wall arranged so that said first wall and said second wall are spaced apart with an interior volume being located between the walls and that is disposed in said housing, between said resilient elastomeric elements, in such a way as to divide said interior of said housing into a first chamber and a second chamber, which chambers are filled with damping fluid;
• said partition is provided with a means for directing flow including a flow passage chamber having an interior volume in the partition, so that the volumes of said first chamber and said second chamber can be reciprocally varied via said flow passage chamber;
• said flow passage chamber being formed by having the interior volume in the partition being an intermediate chamber that is located in said partition and that extends within a large portion of the interior volume of said partition;
• said flow passage chamber also includes a slot-shaped first opening, said first opening being disposed in the surface provided by said first wall of said partition near said peripheral edge of said first wall, which first wall is adjacent to said first chamber, to provide communication between said first chamber and said flow passage chamber, and further includes a second opening, disposed axially in a central portion of said second wall of said partition, which second wall is adjacent to said second chamber, to provide communication between said flow passage chamber and said second chamber, said first and second openings being the only existing openings included with said means for directing the flow.