Device forming a hydraulic jack and usable in a hydropneumatic suspension for automotive vehicles
AssigneesAutomobiles Peugeot, Automobiles Citroen
InventorsFrancois Le Gourvellec, Yves Ney
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Abstract
A hydraulic jack includes three chambers (3, 4, 5), two of these three chambers being annular and enclosing a sliding cylindrical element (8) including a first piston (9) delimiting the two annular chambers (3, 4), and a second piston (10) delimiting the third, substantially cylindrical chamber (5) which is contiguous with one of the two annular chambers (3, 4). The hydraulic jack is used in hydropneumatic suspensions for automotive vehicles.
Claims14
Device forming a hydraulic jack comprising a cylinder housing a sliding piston-equipped structure configured so as to delimit in the cylinder first, second, and third self-contained chambers, wherein the first and second chambers are annular and enclose a sliding cylindrical element including a first piston delimiting the first and second annular chambers, and a second piston delimiting the third chamber which is a substantially cylindrical chamber contiguous to one of the first and second annular chambers, the sliding cylindrical element including two coaxial tubular sections having the same diameter, whose opposite ends are open, and which are separated from each other by a transverse inner partition, the first piston having an overall ring shape and being mounted on, and coaxially to, one of the tubular sections in proximity to the transverse partition, and the other of the two tubular sections forming said second piston.
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