Motor vehicles – Power – Having specific motor-to-body-frame relationship
Patent
1992-02-07
1994-03-08
Pape, Joseph D.
Motor vehicles
Power
Having specific motor-to-body-frame relationship
180377, B60K 500
Patent
active
052919668
ABSTRACT:
An automobile power plant apparatus includes an engine, a transmission connected to the engine, a propeller shaft connected to the transmission, a front mount elastically supporting the engine, and a body provided with the engine, the transmission, the propeller shaft and the front mount. The transmission includes a mount engagement portion which is positioned substantially adjacent to a virtual center of the transmission in a vehicle lengthwise direction and which is positioned on a side of the transmission in a vehicle widthwise direction. The body includes a mount installation portion which is positioned substantially adjacent to the virtual center of the transmission in the vehicle lengthwise direction and which is positioned opposite to a side of the transmission in the vehicle widthwise direction, and the body further includes a rear mount which is installed to the mount installation portion and which engages with the mount engagement portion of the transmission. Thus, the transmission is elastically supported by the rear mount at its virtual center in its side which substantially corresponds to one of the vibrational nodes of the flexural vibrations in the automobile power plant apparatus. Hence, the automobile power plant does not generate disturbing noises which are oppressive to the ears of passengers.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3825090 (1974-07-01), Rinkle et al.
patent: 4889207 (1989-12-01), Von Broock
patent: 5090502 (1992-02-01), Inoue et al.
Pape Joseph D.
Tokai Rubber Industries Ltd.
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