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Document | Title | Date |
20080277848 | SHOCK ABSORBER FORK DAMPER - A telescopic shock absorber for a motorcycle includes a slider tube, a stanchion tube, a damping valve, and a hollow damping rod. The damping rod includes a lower end portion secured within the slider tube with a plurality of longitudinally offset orifices. At least one of the orifices is positioned near the valve such that the orifice moves above the valve under sufficient compressive shock to the slider tube during riding. The damping rod also includes an upper end portion extending within the lower end of the stanchion tube. A mid-portion extends between the upper and lower end portions with an outer diameter smaller than those of the end portions. Steps are provided between the mid-portion and the upper and lower end portions. The mid-portion is positioned adjacent the damping valve when the vehicle is in a static, rider-sag state. | 11-13-2008 |
20090008847 | Height Adjustable Shock Absorber - The invention concerns a shock absorber for motor vehicles having a vibration absorber tube ( | 01-08-2009 |
20090121402 | SUSPENSION FOR A VEHICLE - A suspension for a vehicle having a lower bracket secured to an axle housing. An air bag spring is cantilevered from the lower bracket. A shock absorber and a lower control arm are connected to the lower bracket. An upper bracket is secured to the axle housing. The upper bracket has two upwardly extending arms. An anti-roll bar and an upper control arm are pivotally connected to the upper bracket between said upwardly extending arms. | 05-14-2009 |
20100072685 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR A SUSPENSION SYSTEM WITH PROGRESSIVE RESISTANCE - A suspension component achieves progressive resistance via a secondary bleed valve, which functions as a support for the primary compression valve at higher displacements, in conjunction with a secondary nonlinear spring element configured to alter the force on the piston at high displacements. | 03-25-2010 |
20110057370 | CUSHION DEVICE AND MOTORCYCLE - A cushion device includes a shock absorber and an accumulator. As a piston moves in a certain direction in a cylinder so that the shock absorber is compressed, oil in an oil chamber is discharged to the accumulator through an oil hose. The compression operation of the piston allows a slide member to slide and the capacity of an oil chamber is reduced. The oil in the oil chamber is discharged to a regulation unit through an oil hose. The regulation unit controls a valve by the pressure of the oil coming in from the oil chamber and applies resistance to the oil discharged from an oil chamber to an oil chamber. | 03-10-2011 |
20110133378 | HELICOPTER LANDING GEAR DAMPER - A damper for a landing gear of a helicopter having a barrel, a piston defining a first hydraulic cavity between the piston and a bottom end of the barrel and a second hydraulic cavity between the piston and a top of the barrel, a stack of disc springs disposed within the first hydraulic cavity in a compressed state between the bottom end of the barrel and the piston. Each of the disc springs having a substantially concave side and an opposing substantially convex side, the disc springs stacked in an alternating pattern such that any two adjacent washers have their like sides positioned adjacent to each other. A spring disposed within the second hydraulic cavity such that the spring is compressed between the compression member and the top of the barrel when the piston is in an extended position. A hydraulic fluid is disposed inside at least a portion of the first hydraulic cavity and at least a portion of the second hydraulic cavity. At least one valve is disposed in the piston so as to establish fluid communication between the first hydraulic cavity and the second hydraulic cavity so as to allow bilateral fluid communication between the first hydraulic cavity and the second hydraulic cavity. | 06-09-2011 |
20110133379 | Suspension Bump Stop and Strut Device - The suspension bump stop device comprises a rolling bearing ( | 06-09-2011 |
20110221108 | VEHICLE SHOCK ABSORBER - A vehicle shock absorber includes a plurality of communication holes axially provided side by side in a peripheral wall of the cylinder of the damper, another communication hole provided in a peripheral wall of the cylinder and located below a position of piston of the damper, and a third oil chamber provided in an outer tube and an inner tube of a fork body and outside the cylinder and communicating with only a second oil chamber via the communication holes. This configuration enables the vehicle shock absorber to make a damping force generated by the damper positional dependent, and suppresses the entering of an air bubble into the cylinder, even when a cylinder of the damper is located above an oil level in an oil reservoir within the absorber body. | 09-15-2011 |
20110298168 | SUSPENSION STRUT WITH ADJUSTABLE SPRING SUPPORT SYSTEM - In a suspension strut, the spring support system has a transmission system with a gearbox case and a drive gear that is mounted to rotate in the gearbox case. The adjustment nut, with which the prestressing of the spring can be set, is designed as a gear that works together with the drive gear, by which a rotation of the drive gear produces a screwing motion of the adjustment nut on the thread of the cylinder. | 12-08-2011 |
20120193849 | SUSPENSION DEVICE FOR VEHICLES - A suspension system ( | 08-02-2012 |
20120292841 | THRUST BEARING AND SUSPENSION FOR VEHICLE - Suspension thrust bearing device comprising a rolling bearing ( | 11-22-2012 |
20120319338 | COVER MEMBER AND SUSPENSION - A cover member having plural peak portions and plural trough portions, and freely stretched and shrunk in an array direction of the plural peak portions and the plural trough portions or freely bent, the cover member includes: a hollow part formed in each of the plural peak portions, the hollow part being hollowed toward an inner side from a peak of each of the plural peak portions, being formed in a circumferential direction, and having edge parts, a bottom part and side parts located between the edge parts and the bottom part. The edge parts of the hollow part are brought into contact with each other before the side parts of the hollow part are brought into contact with each other, when at least one of the plural peak portions is subjected to force in a direction intersecting with the array direction from an outside. | 12-20-2012 |
20130020748 | SPRING DAMPER UNIT - A spring damper unit configured for arrangement between a first vehicle part and a second vehicle part of a motor vehicle. The spring damper unit includes a first fastening device for fastening the spring damper unit to the first vehicle part and a second fastening device for fastening the spring damper unit to the second vehicle part. In addition, the spring damper unit includes an elastic element and a vibration damper having two damper parts that move relatively with respect to each other and are arranged between the fastening devices in order to damp relative movements between the vehicle parts and to control a spaced disposition between the vehicle parts. The pre-stressing of the elastic elements are variably adjusted via a first adjusting device and one of the damper parts is adjustable relative to one of the fastening devices via a second adjusting device. | 01-24-2013 |
20130099436 | BICYCLE DAMPING ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM - A bicycle shock absorber and methods for differentiating between rider-induced forces and terrain-induced forces includes a first fluid chamber having fluid contained therein, a piston for compressing the fluid within the fluid chamber, a second fluid chamber coupled to the first fluid chamber by a fluid communication hose, and an inertial valve disposed within the second fluid chamber. The inertial valve opens in response to terrain-induced forces and provides communication of fluid compressed by the piston from the first fluid chamber to the second fluid chamber. The inertial valve does not open in response to rider-induced forces. | 04-25-2013 |
20140145385 | DAMPER BEARING FOR SUPPORTING A CHASSIS COMPONENT ON A MOTOR VEHICLE BODY - A damper bearing for supporting a chassis component on a motor vehicle body includes a first bearing element for attachment to the vehicle body, a second bearing element for attachment to the chassis component, and a damping element which is arranged between the first and second bearing elements and which is composed of a shock-damping material. The first bearing element is formed as a disk spring—first disk spring—and the damping element has a disk-like basic shape, and the second bearing element is vulcanized into the disk-shaped damping element. | 05-29-2014 |
20140203484 | Gas Suspension System - A suspension system for use with a motorcycle includes a single body having two pneumatic cylinders in axial alignment therein. The suspension system may be sold in a kit, and may be installed in an existing front wheel fork. | 07-24-2014 |
20140232050 | Hydropneumatic Suspension Unit - A hydropneumatic suspension unit for a vehicle that includes an outer sleeve which defines a first chamber, and a damping piston which is arranged for sliding displacement in the first chamber. The first chamber contains gas mainly for providing spring action and liquid mainly for providing damping action. The gas is in direct contact with the liquid. | 08-21-2014 |
20140252706 | VEHICLE SHOCK ABSORBER - A guide member for a vehicle shock absorber having a construction with which, even when the guide member contacts an inside tube member, the operation of the vehicle shock absorber is not obstructed. A vehicle shock absorber system is provided with an outer tube, an inner tube, a damper cylinder which is connected to the outer tube and is positioned on the inside of the inner tube, a spring guide which is fixed onto the outer circumferential surface of the damper cylinder, and a coil spring which is positioned between the inner tube and the spring guide. The spring guide is provided with a guide main body portion and a low friction portion provided in a portion of the guide main body portion which contacts the inner tube when the outer tube and/or the inner tube has been bent. The low friction portion has a lower coefficient of friction than the guide main body portion. | 09-11-2014 |
20140346722 | ELECTRICALLY SWITCHABLE LOCKING TORQUE STRUT - A switchable locking torque strut assembly and associated method are provided. The strut assembly is interposed between an associated vehicle chassis and an associated vehicle powertrain to provide high elastomeric rate resistance during start-up and/or shutdown of an associated internal combustion engine (ICE) and low elastomeric rate resistance during idle and/or driving events. The strut assembly includes a housing and a shaft at least partially received in the housing and operatively mounted for selective relative movement relative to the housing. A locking assembly is interposed between the strut and the housing for selectively locking the strut relative to the housing in response to start-up and/or shutdown of the ICE. | 11-27-2014 |
20160025175 | DAMPER ASSEMBLY - A damper assembly has a chain, a first mounting element and a second mounting element. The chain has a longitudinal axis and comprising a plurality of links pivotally interconnected by transverse articulation elements. It has a straight configuration in which the links are substantially aligned in a linear direction, and has at least one resilient member configured to force adjacent links of the chain to articulate out of the straight configuration. The first and second mounting elements are each attached to the chain and are movable relative to one another between a first position and a second position, and are arranged to urge the chain towards the straight configuration when they are moved towards the second position. | 01-28-2016 |