Supports – Machinery support – Bracket
Patent
1997-09-22
1999-08-17
Braun, Leslie A.
Supports
Machinery support
Bracket
474113, 123 4147, 123195A, F16M 100
Patent
active
059381698
ABSTRACT:
An accessory such as an alternator is mounted to an automobile with a mounting that includes an upper mounting bracket and a lower mounting bracket, these brackets each being connected to the accessory and to the engine. One end of the upper mounting bracket is fixed to a side of the alternator. A length of the upper bracket is provided with an elongated slot and a fastener passing through the slot is fixed to an upper part of the engine such as at a water pump casing, the upper bracket thus being slidable on the fastener to adjust a positioning of the alternator relative to the engine and correspondingly altering a tension in an engine driven accessory drive belt. Because the upper bracket is thus at the accessory inner side, overall engine width is reduced and belt tensioning achieved in more efficient way. The lower mounting bracket is made from a flat stock plate which at one side is rolled into a cylinder and to which the accessory can be connected so that when installed, the accessory can be pivoted relative to the engine from the cylinder, an opposite flat side of the plate being fixed to the engine. A bend is formed intermediate the cylinder and opposite flat side to provide that the cylinder is offset away from the engine with the lower bracket mounted thereto. By this, the lower bracket is more simply and economically produced and it can be made smaller than heretofore.
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Ishikawa Masako
Ogawa Akiteru
Braun Leslie A.
Le Tan
Suzuki Motor Corporation
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