Vibration damper of a vehicle and method of reducing vibration
AssigneeJaguar Land Rover Limited
InventorsPhilip Guest, Joseph Joyce, James Hawkins, Peter Hawkins, Dave Hird
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Abstract
In a vehicle an auxiliary machine (13) such as an air compressor is physically associated with the vehicle battery (12). The battery provides for substantial additional mass which resists transmission of noise and vibration from the small machine to the vehicle structure (11). The small machine (13) may itself form part of a battery clamp arrangement.
Claims7
In physical combination, a vehicle battery and small auxiliary machine that when operated generates vibration, the combination comprising a resilient support for attachment to a vehicle structure, the battery and the small auxiliary machine being arranged such that the battery is a damper to the vibration generated by the small auxiliary machine, and the resilient support being arranged to reduce the vibration transmitted to the vehicle structure from the combination of the battery and the small auxiliary machine, wherein the vehicle structure comprises a body shell of the vehicle, and the small auxiliary machine comprises one of an electrically-driven compressor, an electrically-driven pump, or a brake modulator.
A vehicle comprising a combination of a vehicle battery and a small auxiliary machine that when operated generates vibration, the combination comprising a resilient support for attachment to a structure of the vehicle, the battery and the small auxiliary machine being arranged such that the battery is a damper to the vibration generated by the small auxiliary machine, and the resilient support being arranged to reduce the vibration transmitted to the vehicle structure from the combination of the battery and the small auxiliary machine, wherein the small auxiliary machine comprises one of an electrically-driven compressor, an electrically-driven pump, or a brake modulator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.