Fluid strut for a motor vehicle

Details Fluid strut for a motor vehicle Fluid strut for a motor vehicle

1996-09-25

1999-01-26

Graham, Matthew C.

Brakes

Internal-resistance motion retarder

With means compensating for change in temperature or viscosity

188300, F16F 902

Patent

active

058628932

ABSTRACT:
Fluid strut which consists of a cylinder, the interior of which contains a charge under pressure, and a piston rod connected to a piston located in this interior. On the end of the cylinder where the piston rod exits, there are a gasket and a guide for the piston rod, while a valve device which acts when there is a thermal overload on the fluid strut opens the interior to the atmosphere, whereby the valve device has at least one passage channel which can connect the atmosphere to the interior, whereby the fluid strut is connected by means of connecting parts to a base body and to a pivoting body which can move with respect to the base body, whereby in a first series connection between the base body by means of a first connecting part and the fluid strut, or a second series connection between the pivoting body by means of a second connecting part and the fluid strut, there is an element which melts in the event of a fire, and releases at least one end of the fluid strut from one of the series connections, as a result of which the fluid strut assumes a first emergency operating extended position, from which, in the event of the further addition of heat, the fluid strut moves into a second emergency operating extended position, in which the gasket to the piston rod is bridged.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4785921 (1988-11-01), Hosan et al.
patent: 4988081 (1991-01-01), Dohrmann

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