Abstract:
Described herein is a shock mitigation apparatus. The shock mitigation apparatus may be utilized in a marine environment, able to absorb shocks transmitted to a seat system from a structure to which the seat is affixed. The shock mitigation apparatus includes at least one leaf spring wherein the leaf spring is cantilevered at one end and pivoted at a distal end thereof, and wherein the pivoted end is free to articulate upon flexure of the leaf spring.
Abstract:
A powertrain mount is connectable between a vehicle's powertrain component and body structure. The powertrain mount includes a moveable core and a housing for the moveable core. The housing supports the moveable core for movement relative to the housing, in one or more open degrees of freedom, to one or more floating poses where the moveable core is rigidly mechanically decoupled from the housing in the open degrees of freedom. A magnetic field generation system includes one or more housing-side magnetic devices at the housing and one or more moveable-core-side magnetic devices at the moveable core. The housing-side magnetic devices and the moveable-core-side magnetic devices are configured to collectively generate mutually balanced magnetic fields between the housing and the moveable core in the open degrees of freedom that retentively locate the moveable core in one or more floating poses.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for a vehicle suspension system gas spring. In one embodiment, a vehicle suspension system gas spring includes a compressible main gas chamber and an additional volume combinable with the main chamber to change a gas spring rate of the system. In one embodiment, a low friction piston seal is created by a flexible seal member.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an actuator system with a magnetic lead screw, comprises a magnetic rotor and a translator cylinder, the translator cylinder comprises a magnetic stator, the translator cylinder has a closed first end and a second end confined by a lid, the lid having a shaft opening for a shaft coupled to the magnetic rotor, wherein the magnetic rotor, when inserted in the translator cylinder, is arranged to translate a linear movement of the translator cylinder into a rotational movement of the magnetic rotor by using magnetic flux interacting between the magnetic stator and the magnetic rotor, said rotational movements is being transferred through a shaft, the lid with a shaft opening arranged for receiving the shaft, wherein the shaft is arranged to make both the linear and the rotational movement in the shaft opening, the lid being arranged for confining the second end of the translator cylinder, the translator cylinder confined by the lid forms, when divided by the magnetic rotor, a first chamber with a first volume and a second chamber with a second volume, wherein the first volume and the second volume changes as a function of the linear movement. The invention also relates to a method of operating an actuator system with a magnetic lead screw.
Abstract:
A damper for a rotor hub for a rotorcraft can include a housing, a piston resiliently coupled to the housing with a first elastomeric member and a second elastomeric member, a plurality of conical members, a fluid, and an orifice.
Abstract:
The invention is a system for controlling the relative movement of a load P, comprising at least one main damper having a longitudinal action of stroke C and two ends with one end being connected to a frame and the other being connected to the load. A compensation device is included having at least one secondary damper of longitudinal action with two ends with one end being secured to the frame and the other end is connected to the end of the main damper connected to the load The secondary damper is arranged so that, at one point of stroke C, the secondary damper has an action orthogonal in direction to the direction of the movement.
Abstract:
The invention concerns in general the technical field of robotics and automation. Especially the invention concerns a structure for improving a shock tolerance of a robot or other positioning system. More specifically, the invention discloses a mounting element structure for increasing shock tolerance in a robot. The mounting element structure includes a first surface (201) and a second surface (202) towards a robot tool element, wherein the first and second surfaces (201; 202) are configured to be connected with a string assembly (203). The string assembly is configured to, under exposure of external force exceeding a predetermined level, to reduce the damage caused by the force by deforming the shape of the string assembly (203).
Abstract:
A vibration isolating device that is adapted for an elastic coupling of a first component to a second component and for vibration isolation in predetermined frequency ranges between the first and second components, the vibration isolating device comprising at least a first and a second elastically deformable plate that are attached to each other in at least two separate connecting points, the first elastically deformable plate comprising a first curvature and the second elastically deformable plate comprising a second curvature, wherein the first and second curvatures are respectively located in a region between the at least two separate connecting points and arranged such that a gap is defined between the first and second elastically deformable plates.
Abstract:
Device for three-dimensional vibration insulation between structures or industrial equipment in general and the foundations thereof, comprising a hexagonal framework formed by six plates connected so as to pivot in relation to each other by horizontal parallel hinges, at least a spring and a damper being arranged between the plates. The device further comprises a connector arranged its series on the upper plate so as to pivot about a horizontal axis perpendicular to the axis of the hinges. The insulating system comprises a plurality of devices operating in parallel and oriented in such a way that the transverse axes thereof (defined by the hinges) converge onto a vertical axis that contains the center of gravity of the structure or equipment being insulated, in particular against high-intensity seismic activity with large displacements.