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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120126611 | SUSPENSION UNIT A suspension unit 1 comprising a resilient arrangement 37 is provided. The damping arrangement 37 comprises a chamber having a primary volume arranged to contain a primary fluid and jounce and rebound variable volumes 58, 60 arranged to conta... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120103738 | HYDRAULIC DAMPER AND PISTON HEAD ASSEMBLY THEREFORE A novel hydraulic damper, and a piston head assembly therefore, includes a feature, such as a slot or passage, which permits compressible gases that would otherwise be trapped between the face of a piston head assembly and the hydraulic fluid to instead migrate to a vol... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120048664 | MULTI-CYLINDER HYDRAULIC SHOCK ABSORBER A multi-cylinder hydraulic shock absorber (D) expands and contracts in accordance with expansion and contraction of a working chamber (R1, R2) provided in a cylinder (1) and having a working fluid sealed therein. An outer periphery of the cylinder (... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20110278117 | HYDRAULIC DAMPER DEVICE FOR RETARDING MOVEMENT OF A MOVABLE MEMBER TOWARD A STATIONARY MEMBER A hydraulic damper device for retarding movement of a movable member toward a stationary member, includes a cylinder, an axially shiftable plug disposed in the cylinder to partition a receiving chamber into liquid and air compartments, a piston axially movable in the li... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110260379 | DAMPING DEVICE The invention relates to a damping device, particularly earthquake damper, comprising a hollow spherical body filled with a damping fluid (5) and comprising a plurality of damping bodies (10) disposed in the radial direction, the radially interior ends the... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110180361 | STIFF DAMPER Damper which is, in particular, stiff during the inward stroke thereof and can be used, for example, as a railway damper. The piston which divides the cylinder into two chambers is provided with non-return valves which operate in both directions and are configured as ch... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110120822 | AUTOMOBILE HYDRAULIC SHOCK ABSORBER An automobile hydraulic shock absorber includes a cylinder body, a piston, an upper support, a piston rod, a volume adjustment mechanism, first and second communicating passages, and a pressure-applying mechanism. The piston rod is attached to the upper support via a ru... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110036672 | ELASTIC CONNECTION ELEMENT WITH VARIABLE RIGIDITY An elastic connection element with variable rigidity for coupling together components that are spaced from each other. The connection element is a tubular component with coupling points which fix the components to the element. The rigidity of the element, in the state o... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110005877 | DAMPING CYLINDER WITH ANNULAR BLADDER An improvement to damping cylinders in which the damping fluid needs to be separated from a gas is disclosed. In particular, an annular bladder is used. An annular bladder allows for a control shaft to extend at least a portion of the length of the damping cylinder. Thi... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100175956 | VISCOUS PENDULUM DAMPER A damper that shears a fluid to dampen rotational force fluctuations and moves a plurality of masses within a fluid to dampen dynamic loading force fluctuations. The damper includes a case, a ring, a plurality of pockets, a mass, and a fluid. The case at least partially... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100096227 | DAMPER An example damper assembly includes a tube, a piston assembly axially moveable relative to the tube between an extended position and a retracted position, and a material encapsulating a first fluid. The piston assembly is configured to compress the first fluid using a s... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100096228 | DAMPER FOR DAMPING VIBRATIONS WITH A DAMPING BODY PROMOTING FORMATION OF FOAM The present invention concerns a damper for damping vibrations. The damper includes at least one substantially longitudinal damping body (1) with two end surfaces (21, 22) and one substantially longitudinal surface (20) between these. The damping bo... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100072009 | HYDRAULIC DAMPER A hydraulic damper includes a cylindrical tube, a first rod guide fitted close to one end of the cylindrical tube, a second rod guide fitted closer to the other end of the cylindrical tube, and a piston arranged to be axially slidable between the two rod guides. The pis... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100018817 | Engine Mount A pneumatic active engine mount has a middle fluid chamber and a pneumatic chamber inside an orifice module using a pneumatic plate. The orifice module divides an inner space in which working fluid is encapsulated into an upper fluid chamber and a lower fluid chamber. A... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20090178893 | HYDRAULIC BUSHING A hydraulic bushing including an elastomeric bellows having radially spaced axially extending arcuate chambers fluidly connected with axially spaced radially extending chambers to dampen axial as well as radial loads imposed upon the bushing.... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090173588 | VIBRATION DAMPER NOTABLY FOR AN AEROSPACE STRUCTURE The invention relates to a vibration damper characterized in that it includes:
| 07/09/2009 |
| 20090139812 | SHOCK ABSORBER FOR MOVABLE TOOLS The invention relates to a shock absorber in which the blow from a movable tool is received by a piston that transmits the kinetic energy of the blow to a chamber filled with hydraulic liquid. The shock absorber is also provided with means for returning the piston to it... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090127040 | Torsional Vibration Damper Arrangement A torsional vibration damper with a primary side and a secondary side, wherein rotation of the primary side relative to the secondary side causes displacement of hydraulic fluid from at least one displacement chamber and compression of pneumatic fluid in at least one co... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090107780 | Method of assembling a hydraulic shock absorber and hydraulic shock absorber Before inner components of a hydraulic shock absorber, such as a cylinder, a piston and a piton rod, are placed, an outer shell is joined with a joint portion of an assembling apparatus so that a gas pressure chamber and the outer shell are in communication with each ot... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090032345 | Cylinder apparatus A hydraulic shock absorber enables its piston rod to be locked near its minimum length position and allows the locked condition to be visually confirmed easily. A cap member is secured to a distal end portion of a piston rod extending from a cylinder part, and a dust co... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080169163 | HARMONIC DAMPENER A harmonic dampener includes a first body having an internal cavity. A first mounting is provided on the first body. An elongated second body is telescopically received within the internal cavity of the first body. Dampening means are positioned within the internal cavi... | 07/17/2008 |
| 20060054433 | Cryogenic fluid mass damper using charged particulates for stiction-free damping A mass damper is provided for damping a mass. The mass damper includes a housing configured to couple to the mass and a plurality of electrostatically charged particles disposed within the housing, where the particles do not clump to one another or stick to the housing.... | 03/16/2006 |
| 20050121270 | APPARATUS FOR DAMPING VIBRATION USING MACRO PARTICULATES A mass damping system for use in all temperature ranges, including extreme temperature environments, is provided. The system comprises a housing having bottom, side and end walls, and an inner peripheral surface that defines an interior, a mounting mechanism located on ... | 06/09/2005 |
