Motor vehicles – Power – Having specific motor-to-body-frame relationship
Patent
1994-07-05
1996-02-27
Oberleitner, Robert J.
Motor vehicles
Power
Having specific motor-to-body-frame relationship
248567, B60K 100
Patent
active
054941318
ABSTRACT:
An convertible automotive vehicle having a unibody chassis with a single mass damper for reducing perceptible passenger compartment vibrations is disclosed. The single mass damper is uniquely tuned to the overall vehicle frequency response and suspended between a rail adjacent to a front suspension assembly and a bumper mounted to the rail with an energy absorbing device.
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Bartz C. T.
Brown Gregory P.
Ford Motor Company
May Roger L.
Oberleitner Robert J.
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