Independent suspension system

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1976-11-29

1978-05-02

Song, Robert R.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Running gear

280662, 280701, 267 571A, B62D 706, F16F 138

Patent

active

040871037

ABSTRACT:
An independently sprung front wheel assembly including a frame, a steering knuckle and associated road wheel, a control arm pivotally connected at its outer end to the steering knuckle and at its inner ends to a shaft mounted in a pair of spaced clamp members secured to the frame, a coil spring mounted between the control arm and the frame, and a pair of eccentric elastomeric bushings mounted around the shaft within the respective clamps, each bushing having a vertically oriented scalloped void or cut-out formed in the side thereof facing the wheel (1) for providing high deflection in the horizontal plane and low deflection in the vertical plane of the shaft and, hence, the control arm relative to the clamp members during road impact conditions, to substantially isolate the frame from such impacts, and (2) for controlling the compliance center about which the lower control arm pivots to minimize steering reaction that might be caused by braking and road impact conditions.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2862741 (1958-12-01), Baker
patent: 3147964 (1964-09-01), Wolf
patent: 3304136 (1967-02-01), Muller
patent: 3572677 (1968-12-01), Damon

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