Motor vehicles – Power – Having specific motor-to-body-frame relationship
Patent
1981-12-21
1985-05-21
Mitchell, David M.
Motor vehicles
Power
Having specific motor-to-body-frame relationship
180297, 188314, 267 8R, B60K 512
Patent
active
045180580
ABSTRACT:
A front wheel drive vehicle having a frame and an engine set transversely across the width of the frame, and an engine torque strut between the engine and the frame for resisting the torque reactions during engine acceleration and during vehicle forward and reverse operation, and for retaining the engine in a known position. The torque strut comprises a housing having one end pivotally attached to the engine, a piston rod at the opposite end pivotally attached to the vehicle frame, resilient means in the housing on opposite sides of a piston under a pre-load, hydraulic fluid in the housing on opposite sides of the piston, and flow control means in the strut for regulating the transfer of hydraulic fluid to opposite sides of the piston upon piston displacement in the housing, the flow control means and the resilient means damping the engine torque reactions.
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Fister Louis P.
Fitch Lawrence H.
Pearson Herby O.
Mitchell David M.
Moog Automotive, Inc.
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