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US 8,545,966 B2Granted
Vibration dampening material and uses for same
AssigneeMatscitechno Licensing Company
InventorsRobert A Vito, Carmen N DiMario, Thomas Falone
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a material adapted to reduce vibration and, more specifically, to a material adapted to dissipate and evenly distribute transmitted vibrations. The material is particularly suited for impact and/or heavy load vibration resistance.
Claims8
A vibration reducing material comprising:
- a foam material layer comprising a plurality of projecting sections made of substantially rigid foam material and areas of predetermined weakness located within the foam layer between the projections to allow the vibration-reducing material to flex along such areas of predetermined weakness, the areas of predetermined weakness comprising grooves that form polygon shapes,
- a continuous, uniform elastomeric material layer configured to absorb vibration, and
- an aramid material layer that distributes vibration to facilitate vibration dampening, the aramid material layer defining a major material surface and being located between the foam and elastomeric layers, the aramid material layer being generally non-elastic in a direction generally perpendicular to the major material surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.