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US 5,348,266 AGranted
Reduced horizontal stiffness vibration isolation system
AssigneeKinetic Systems, Inc.
InventorsMaurice Gertel, Robert G. Haynes
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Abstract
A reduced horizontal stiffness vibration isolation system including a gas spring assembly with a load support interface portion and pivot device externally coupled to the gas spring assembly for allowing the gas spring assembly to pivot when either the load support interface portion or the pivot device is displaced to reduce the horizontal stiffness of the gas spring assembly.
Claims12
A reduced horizontal stiffness vibration isolation system comprising:
- a gas spring assembly having a vertical axis and including a load support interface portion and a rolling convolution type flexible gas seal and a piston receivable by said seal;
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- pivot means, externally coupled to said gas spring assembly, for allowing said gas spring assembly to pivot when at least one of said load support interface portion and said pivot means is displaced in a direction other than along said vertical axis, to reduce the horizontal stiffness of the gas spring assembly.
A reduced horizontal stiffness vibration isolation system comprising:
- an airspring assembly including a housing, a first gas chamber, and a piston sealed from said first gas chamber by a rolling convolution type air seal, said piston including a load support interface portion;
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- pivot means having opposing outer faces coupled to said housing at one said face for allowing said gas spring assembly to pivot when at least one of said load support interface portion and said pivot means is displaced in a direction other than along the vertical axis of the airspring assembly, to reduce the horizontal stiffness of the airspring assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.