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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7368158 | Elastomeric member provided with monitoring means The present invention relates to problems of maintenance of elastomeric members. According to the invention, the elastomeric member is provided with at least one elastomeric layer 1 disposed between two rigid strength members 2. In addition, the elasto... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7311446 | Swivel bearing and a steering axle equipped therewith The invention relates to a swivel bearing that is characterized by at least one elastic, radially prestressed bearing element, which closely encircles a rotation axis completely or at least in areas, is inserted into a bearing opening of a first bearing part, prefer... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7210744 | Manually replaceable protective wear sleeve The wear sleeve in the present invention comprises a rearward split ring portion and an intermediate cylindrical ring portion adjacent a forward shoulder portion. The outer diameter of the wear sleeve intermediate portion and rearward split ring portion is uniform. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207553 | Engine mount An engine mount having an upper and a lower mounting member connected by a rubber elastic body disposed therebetween, to be installed on a vehicle with a opposition direction of the upper and lower mounting member inclined with respect to a vertical, and an adjustme... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7172800 | Sheet molding compound damper component, and methods for making and using the same A damper component for absorbing and dissipating vibration and/or noise resonating from a device is provided. The damper component includes a viscoelastic damper layer, and a continuous constraining layer intimately contacting and encasing the damper layer. The cons... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7097169 | Elastomeric bearing with modified cylindrical core An elastomeric bearing having inner and outer races and a core. The core has a plurality of resilient laminae and a plurality of non-resilient laminae interleaved with one another. Each of the lamina has an axially inner cylindrical portion of a given diameter, an a... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7096958 | Compliant buoyancy can guide A floating offshore platform, of the type having a buoyancy can disposed within a support structure, includes a can guide assembly that has at least two compliant compression pads that are configured and arranged to provide a non-linear load-versus-deflection charac... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7044457 | Mount with replaceable load bearing and rebound members A mount with replaceable load bearing and rebound members is provided. The mount comprises a housing that defines a first chamber and a second chamber; a load bearing member removably located in said first chamber, said load bearing member comprising a load bearing ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7037072 | Rotor head for a rotary-wing aircraft A preferred embodiment of a rotor head for a rotary-wing aircraft having a plurality of rotor blades and a drive shaft includes a gimbal mechanically coupled to the drive shaft so that the gimbal rotates with the drive shaft, and a hub pivotally coupled to the gimba... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6997614 | Elastic rubber bearing An elastic rubber bearing is provided with an intermediate tube, namely, a bush bearing with a reinforcing insert arranged in the elastomeric bearing body. The design of the bearing includes a pretension, which is distributed as uniformly as possible both in relatio... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6942205 | Spiral rolled laminated bushing A laminated bushing is formed from a metal sheet having resilient material disposed on one side by spirally winding the metal sheet about a longitudinal axis to form a spirally shaped cavity. The resilient material is disposed within the spirally shaped cavity and t... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6834998 | Shaft bearing-seal assembly penetrating the wall of a pressure vessel A rubber laminated bearing-seal, consisting of multiple flat or curved alternate laminations of metal and rubber bonded together and having an aperture, is seated in an apertured receptacle in the wall of a pressure vessel and supports a shaft that penetrates the ap... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6803095 | Composite shims having a laminate structure A composite shim is provided having a laminate structure that includes a composite layer having at least one circumferential fiber. The composite layer may be in combination with composite layers with radially oriented fibers, uniaxially oriented fibers, and/or biax... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6666648 | Directional elastomeric coupler An elastomeric coupler assembly having a helical elastomeric bearing movably supports an active slat relative to a main element. An inner elastomeric coupler assembly and an outer elastomeric coupler assembly support the slat therebetween. Centrifugal for... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6637736 | Bearing assembly for supporting components to permit limited rotational movement A bearing assembly permits limited rotational movement of component parts and includes a bearing body and a deflectable rotational body attached to the component part. The rotational body is disposed at a distance from the bearing body so that the bodies ... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6524007 | Shaft bearing-seal assembly penetrating the wall of a pressure vessel A rubber laminated bearing-seal, consisting of multiple flat or curved alternate laminations of metal and rubber bonded together and having an aperture, is seated in an apertured receptacle in the wall of a pressure vessel and supports a shaft that penetr... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6474869 | Bushing A bushing comprising a main body that is adapted to be supported by the first member. The main body is comprised of a rigid layer and one or more other layers supported by the rigid layer. One of the layers defines an axial bore that is adapted to receive... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6413048 | Elastomeric bearing An elastomeric bearing for the flapping hinge of a helicopter is disclosed. The elastomeric bearing includes an outer race, an inner race, and an elastomeric element disposed therebetween. The outer race has at least one flange extending therefrom that in... | 07/02/2002 |
| 5961219 | Split taper bushing A split taper bushing assembly includes a bearing member, an inner sleeve received in a hollow center defined by the bearing and an optional outer sleeve which receives the bearing member in an open center defined therein. The bearing member also includes... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5798155 | Bearing material and its manufacturing method Composite material 19 comprising outer member 17 having ring form section and inner member 18 mounted into said outer member so as to form a unitary construction, wherein inner surface 24 of said outer member 17 and outer surface 22 of said inner member 1... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5749757 | Impeller shaft journal for jet pump An elastic plane-bearing support for the impeller shaft of a water jet propulsion unit for providing good support and yet accommodating relative movement between the engine and the jet propulsion unit.... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5399309 | Tape wrapped, fabric reinforced, flex bearing A flexible bearing for a rocket motor is constructed by forming a relatively very thin coating (about 0.01 inches thick) of an elastomer such as natural rubber on one surface at least of an equally thin continuous reinforcement strip of pliable fabric, an... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5297874 | Elastomeric bearing A heavy duty elastomeric bearing typically of annular shape comprises a pair of rigid end members spaced apart and interconnected by an element of elastomeric material having embedded therein a plurality of substantially rigid reinforcing interleaves each... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5271678 | Elastic bearing Elastomeric rubber bearing for being connected between two bodies. The bearing employs an element having a series of resilient elements connected together by a series of interposed rigid elements. The thickness of the resilient elements and the width of t... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5189328 | Laminated motor bearing for electrical submersible pump A motor for a submersible well pump has rotor sections spaced apart from each other with bearings located between. The bearings support the shaft of the rotor within a stator. The bearings have a body made up of thin, circular metal nonmagnetic disks. The... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5033722 | Resilient mount assembly Resilient mount assemblies provide absorption of induced loads while permitting some degree of relative rotation between the elements. It is desirable to have resilient mount assemblies which can withstand heavy operating loads while having high angular r... | 07/23/1991 |
| 5020923 | Transmission/gearbox vibration damping system A vibration damping system for a transmission or gearbox which includes rotatable components. A housing structure is provided for supporting and journalling an inner rotatable component drivingly coupled to a plurality of outer rotatable components defini... | 06/04/1991 |
| 4927275 | Equalizing hydrodynamic bearing The hydrodynamic bearing assembly may be either a journal bearing or a thrust bearing. Bearing pads are located adjacent a shaft when a journal bearing or adjacent a collar on a shaft when a thrust bearing. The bearing pads are located on equalizing pads,... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4900165 | Bearing support system A bearing support system providing axial thrust load control of bearing supporting a rotating element, by retaining the bearings with a slotted inner ring and supporting the inner ring with a radially spaced outer ring by means of a plurality of circumfer... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4895354 | Equalizing stress distribution in each laminate of an asymmetrically loaded elastomeric bearing A hollow spherical or conical elastomeric bearing has an elliptical inner surface whose minor diameter is aligned with the resultant nonaxial load under a compressive axial load.... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4878767 | Sleeve bearing A sleeve bearing comprises two sleeves which are mounted for relative rotation one inside the other and which contact one another at radially outwardly extending flanges. The outer sleeve consists of rubber and has a sealing lip on its flange. The sealing... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4859148 | Preloaded tunable elastomeric flapping hinge bearing and method of preloading A tail rotor flapping hinge elastomeric bearing in which the inner and outer races are split and the races have ramped surfaces with the higher slope of the inner races being toward the outer edge of the bearing. The races have a plurality of slope angles... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4804352 | Link-type rotary coupling A link-type coupling particularly suited for use in connecting a drive shaft to a rotor hub in an aircraft for permitting the hub to rotate about an axis that may be angularly misaligned with respect to the rotational axis of the drive shaft. The coupling... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4765758 | Laminated bearing A sound isolating bearing has concentric inner and outer housings made of steel with a concentric shim between the inner and outer housings sandwiched by layers of a resilient elastomer. The longitudinal cross section of the shim is convex on both inside ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4753326 | Pin guide and damping bushing for the caliper of a floating caliper spot-type disc brake A pin guide and damping bushing for the caliper of a floating-caliper spot-type disc brake which is provided with a brake carrier and a caliper axially slidable relative to the brake carrier and straddling a brake disc and brake shoes. The brake carrier o... | 06/28/1988 |
| 4738436 | Spring system A spring system for resiliently supporting a mass with respect to a base comprises a supporting member mounted for movement and which can be coupled to the mass and is bounded by a portion of a spherical surface which bears against a concentric complement... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4734081 | Constant velocity elastomeric bearing joint A constant velocity joint (200) for interconnecting a first shaft (202) to a second shaft (204) for bidirectional drive is provided. The constant velocity joint employs a carrier (218) which is formed with a series of apertures for receiving elastomeric b... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4714450 | Elastomeric high torque, constant velocity joint A nearly spherical laminated elastomeric bearing has a non-circular latitudinal cross-section to accommodate high torque loads in elastomer bending rather than in shear. The nearly spherical profile of the bearing accommodates tilt primarily in shear. Bot... | 12/22/1987 |
| 4708758 | Method of making a flexible bearing An improved laminated flexible bearing wherein alternate layers of elastomer and reinforced plastic shims of the lamination are cured simultaneously with heat and pressure and the lamination is bonded to forward and aft end rings for facilitating attachme... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4676669 | Tailoring tilt in an elastomeric high torque, constant velocity joint The tiltwise stiffness of an axially-lobed, nearly-spherical elastomeric joint is made uniform at all azimuths by contouring the axial height of the elastomer or by reducing the thickness or durometer of the elastomer at azimuths where the joint otherwise... | 06/30/1987 |
