Side load compensating air suspension

Details Side load compensating air suspension Side load compensating air suspension

1985-11-27

1987-08-25

Halvosa, George E. A.

Spring devices

Vehicle

Comprising compressible fluid

92 98D, 267 35, 267 6424, 267152, 280692, 280712, F16F 904

Patent

active

046887741

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle suspension strut incorporating an airspring around a hydraulic shock absorber is disclosed. The airspring design and orientation relative to the shock absorber axis creates a side acting force which counteracts the bending torque acting on the strut during operation in a vehicle and prevents binding of the shock absorber piston. The horizontal acting side load can be achieved by using an airspring piston eccentrically mounted on the shock absorber. Alternatively the airspring may be mounted offset and/or at an angle to the shock absorber axis. The flexible membrane of the airspring may also be cut in a plane oblique to the shock axis and mounted on the airspring piston to form asymmetric rolling lobes about the circumference of the piston.

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"MacPherson Strut Suspensions", Motor Age, Sep. 1976, pp. 61-64.

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