Motor vehicles – Steam traction engines – Spring mounted on axle
Patent
1977-01-31
1978-05-16
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Motor vehicles
Steam traction engines
Spring mounted on axle
180 65E, 280 961, 280DIG1, B60K 1730
Patent
active
040893847
ABSTRACT:
In an automobile having an independent motor driving each wheel, the effective unsprung mass is minimized, and impulse shock is reduced, by arranging each wheel at the end of an arm pivoted about a normally horizontal axisof gravity of the motor, having a center of percussion approximately at the wheel axis, and having a corresponding axis of suspension at the arm's pivot.
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McGiehan Donn
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
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