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Shock absorber for vehicle

Patent Number: 8443950
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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[PROBLEMS] An impact absorption body for a vehicle can have desired impact absorption performance, exhibits excellent impact absorption performance particularly immediately after an impact is applied to the body, and can maintain high impact absorption performance. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] The impact absorption body (1) for a vehicle is installed within a vehicle forming member and absorbs impact energy in a collision. The impact absorption body (1) has a first wall ...

Mechanical actuator cartridge for a motor vehicle brake

Patent Number: 8443949
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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The cartridge (22) comprises a body (24), a rotary control plate (28) driving a push plate (30) in a translational movement, elastic means (38) of compressing the push plate (30) towards the control plate (28), and a cage (40) for holding the elastic means (38). The body (24) comprises a projection (42) for attaching the cage (40), collaborating with an attachment orifice (46) formed in an axial tab ...

Vibration damper with stroke-dependent damping force

Patent Number: 8443948
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A vibration damper including a cylinder in which a displacer carries out a translational movement. The displacer has a work piston which divides the cylinder into two work spaces. The work spaces outside the displacer for each operating movement direction of the displacer are connected to damping valves by a flow connection. Every flow connection has only one flow direction through a check valve arrangement. The flow connection has a plurality of inflow ports which are offset in axial ...

Magneto-rheological fluid damper

Patent Number: 8443947
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A magneto-rheological fluid damper includes a housing, a magnetically permeable body, a spindle, and a magneto-rheological fluid. Given a plurality of multi-pole two-way magnetic poles and a plurality of multi-pole coils, magnetic lines pass through the magneto-rheological fluid mostly in a direction perpendicular to a gap, such that the magneto-rheological fluid features an enhanced chaining force. Accordingly, the magneto-rheological fluid damper enables an increase in a magnetically ...

Vehicle disc brake device

Patent Number: 8443946
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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A disc brake device in which uneven wear on the brake pads is prevented. Each brake pad has a set pin hole at one end in which a set pin is fitted, and a torque-receiving component for receiving braking torque in the other end. The pistons for pressing the brake pads are composed of first and second pistons. A center of the first piston near the set pin is located further inside from the middle of the sliding range of the brake pads, and the distance from the set pin is ...

Vehicle chocking systems and methods of using the same

Patent Number: 8443945
Publication Date: 2013-05-21
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Vehicle chocking systems include a first chock comprising a first bottom surface, a first front wheel restraining surface and a first rear wheel restraining surface opposite the first front wheel restraining surface, a second chock comprising a second bottom surface, a second front wheel restraining surface and a second rear wheel restraining surface, wherein the first bottom surface, the first front wheel restraining surface and the first rear wheel restraining surface of the first chock ...

Methods and apparatus for a suspension system with progressive resistance

Patent Number: 8439173
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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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 ...

Oil damper using a cam

Patent Number: 8439172
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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The present invention relates to an oil damper for preventing a seat and a cover from rapidly rotating. The oil damper includes a shaft unit, a cam, a valve, an elastic member, a housing and a fastening member. The shaft unit has a coupling part which is coupled to the seat and the cover. The cam is rotatably coupled to a rotating shaft of the shaft unit. The valve opens or closes a coupling hole depending on movement of the cam to allow fluid to flow through the coupling hole or prevent ...

Vehicle disk brake

Patent Number: 8439171
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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A vehicle disc brake includes pad retainers. Each pad retainer includes: a pair of retainer portions; a connecting piece connecting the pair of retainer portions together; and pad returning portions. The retainer portion includes: an inner piece; an outer piece; and a deep side piece which is laid on the opposing surface so as to connect the outer piece and the inner piece together. The pad returning portion is formed by inclining a distal end portion of a narrow elongated piece while ...

Self-reinforcing electromechanical disc brake

Patent Number: 8439170
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
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The invention relates to a self-reinforcing electromechanical disc brake having a brake caliper produced by means of shaping, in one piece with a housing for electromechanical parts of an actuating device of the disc brake, with the housing forming a dimensionally stable hollow body. It is possible in this way to produce a bending-resistant and torsionally rigid brake caliper with a low wall ...

Damping device with adjustable variable damping characteristics, in particular for the damping of movable furniture parts

Patent Number: 8434600
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
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Damping device for damping motion of movable furniture parts. A piston mounted in housing in longitudinally displaceable manner which, due lo displacement, forms two variable-size working chambers on opposite sides with damping medium. Via overflow-connection, throttled transfer of damping medium is possible between two working chambers. Piston plunger, fed selectively, is connected on one side of pislon. Via the outer end of piston plunger, the motion of the furniture part to be damped is ...

Lifting column preferably for height adjustable tables and method for manufacturing thereof

Patent Number: 8430218
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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In lifting columns (1) for tables and similar articles of furniture and consisting of pipe profiles (2a, 2b) with intermediate slides (8), it is a problem that the profiles (2a, 2b) have relatively great dimensional tolerances. This means that the gap between two successive sections may vary relatively much, which causes a great play in the column. This is solved in that at least one of these sections (2a) ...

Damper

Patent Number: 8430217
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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The invention relates to a damper having a damper cylinder, in which a piston plunger is guided via a piston rod. For the adjustment of characteristic damper values, the flow of a damper fluid can be controlled via control mechanism disposed inside the damper cylinder, which controls the flow of the damper fluid in a first flow direction using a first adjusting element and in a second flow direction using a second adjusting element. According to the invention, the first and second adjusting ...

Brake device lubrication device and method for controlling same

Patent Number: 8430216
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A brake device lubrication device includes a lubricant supply unit and a control unit. The control unit includes a braking timer, a release timer and a storage unit. The control unit is configured to control the lubricant supply unit so as to supply a predetermined first supply amount of lubricant to a brake device when the brake device is in a braking state, to acquire a delay time corresponding to a braking time counted by the braking timer from a relationship of correspondence between ...

Brake disks for a vehicle, method of manufacturing same, and vehicle incorporating same

Patent Number: 8430215
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A method of manufacturing brake disks for front and rear wheels of a saddle-type vehicle includes steps of cutting out a disk member from a stainless steel plate member, further cutting out an intermediate portion in a diametrical direction of the disk member in a wave shape in a circumferential direction for producing an outer side disk and an inner side disk. The method also includes further steps of determining the wave portion of the outer side disk which projects to the inner side in a ...

Hand controlled stopping device for a camera dolly

Patent Number: 8430214
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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A braking system allows for smooth and accurate stopping of a camera dolly operating on tracks. A pair of caliper brake modules attached to the dolly frame are sized so that they fit over and at least partially surrounds the track. When the caliper brakes are activated, brake pads are moved towards the surrounded track squeezing it and providing a significant braking force. This permits the dolly to be smoothly brought to a stop with no possibility of the dolly wheel locking and skidding. ...

Electric brake

Patent Number: 8430213
Publication Date: 2013-04-30
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Provided is an electric brake capable of accurately estimating the brake pad temperature and securing a sufficient braking force and response. An electric brake has a disc rotor rotating with a wheel, an actuator for rectilinearly actuating a piston in the axial direction of the disc rotor by using an electric motor, a drive controller for controlling the drive of the actuator, a brake pad pressed by the piston to give a frictional resistance to the disc rotor in the direction of rotation, ...