Miscellaneous hardware (e.g. – bushing – carpet fastener – caster – Closure checks
Patent
1998-07-13
2000-10-17
Knight, Anthony
Miscellaneous hardware (e.g., bushing, carpet fastener, caster,
Closure checks
296 378, 296 379, 188 821, F16F 914
Patent
active
061312428
ABSTRACT:
A damping device is provided for a part that is pivotable between two end positions, with a viscous brake for delaying the pivoting movement. The brake has a brake wheel and a drive member that engages the wheel at a tangent. The wheel and drive member move apart from one another when the part is pivoted, thus causing rotation of the brake wheel. One of the brake wheel and the drive member is in a fixed location and the other is on a lever that is articulated to the part. The articulation point is set so that the displacement travel of the lever within a constant pivot angle of the part increases with the path of the part as it pivots from its first to its second end position with consequent progressive damping characteristics.
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patent: 5887930 (1999-03-01), Klein
Schenk Bernd
Zipperle Ralf
Daimler-Chrysler AG
Knight Anthony
Williams Mark
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