Spring devices – Resilient shock or vibration absorber – Including energy absorbing means or feature
Patent
1988-08-31
1989-10-31
Oberleitner, Robert J.
Spring devices
Resilient shock or vibration absorber
Including energy absorbing means or feature
114219, 138121, 267160, F16M 700, F16F 118, B63B 5902, F16L 1100
Patent
active
048772240
ABSTRACT:
An energy absorber or bumper for positioning on one object to absorb the impact of the later with another object is formed of an arcuate strip of rigid resiliently deflectable material having a plurality of corrugations extending circumferentially coaxial with the radius of curvature. When positioned on an object, the center of the arcuate strip is bowed radially outwardly from the surface of the object. The strip of material has sufficient resiliency to allow deflection of the arcuate surface of the material inwardly relative to the radius of curvature upon impact to the bowed surface and thereafter returns to its original configuration. In an elongate configuration, the height of the ridges above the furrows allows independent deflection of the ridges relative to one another along the longitudinal axis of the strip upon impact to the ridges and thereafter return to their original configuration.
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Mosely Neal J.
Oberleitner Robert J.
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