Shock absorber
AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorsEiji Kobayashi, Toshikazu Takatsudo, Yoichi Kawashima
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Abstract
A shock absorber comprising a honeycomb block with a plurality of cylindrical cell arranged in parallel, wherein the strength of said honeycomb block to withstand the load in the cell axial direction is adjusted by a processed configuration of said cells.
Claims8
A shock absorber for use in automotive crash testing, comprising a honeycomb block with a plurality of cylindrical cells arranged in parallel and each having opposite axial ends, wherein the strength of said honeycomb block to withstand a load in the cell axial direction is gradually reduced by a processed configuration of said cells from one axial end of each cell toward the other axial end of each cell, said processed configuration of said cells comprising one of a thinning process and a metallic plating process.
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