Vibration immunizing dynamic support structure
AssigneeAdvanced Fuel Research, Inc.
InventorPeter R. Solomon
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Abstract
The structure serves to support any of various elements and objects, normally for translational movement. It is effectively divided, by pivot points on an intermedial axis, into two opposite portions of equal mass, thus affording to the structure immunization against translational forces transmitted through those points. The opposite portions also have their centers of gravity remotely located, so as to generate a counteracting torque in response to moments of rotational inertia transmitted through the pivot points. Integrally formed planar pieces are assembled to provide contiguous elongate elements and an interposed connecting web element, a plurality of which web elements produce a flexure joint in the structure.
Claims12
Structure for the dynamic support of at least one element, immunized against extraneous forces, comprising a multiplicity of rigid members including a pair of opposing side members and a pair of opposing end members, said members being flexibly interconnected so as to permit conjoint displacement of said side members in opposite directions along parallel axes of shifting, with said end members rotating in the same direction about pivot points located on an intermedial axis lying between and parallel to said axes of shifting, said intermedial axis effectively dividing said structure into two portions, each of said portions including one of said side members and having its center of gravity located substantially on a common axis that extends perpendicular to the aforesaid axes, said center of gravity of at least a first one of said portions, inclusive of a first one of said side members, being spaced to the side of said intermedial axis opposite to said axis of shifting of said first side member.
Structure for the dynamic support of elements, immunized against extraneous forces, comprising a multiplicity of rigid members including a pair of opposing side members and a pair of opposing end members, said members being flexibly interconnected so as to permit conjoint displacement of said side members in opposite directions along parallel axes of shifting, with said end members rotating in the same direction about pivot points located on an intermedial axis lying between and parallel to said axes of shifting;
- said intermedial axis effectively dividing said structure into two portions that are of such mass and configuration as to statically balance one another irrespective of the orientation of said intermedial axis.
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