Shock absorber fashioned as an elastomeric hollow spring

US4082338A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Daimler-Benz AG · DE

Inventors

• Hubert Hutai · Grafenau, DE
• Wolfgang Klie · Ditzingen, DE
• Helmut Weisshappel · Sindelfingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 6, 1976
• Grant date: Apr 4, 1978
• Expiry date: May 6, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2019/266
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A shock absorber constructed as elastomer hollow spring which is arranged between a vehicle bumper and a fixed vehicle part, and which is supported under prestress at these parts; the shock absorber includes at its end near the vehicle a socket having an inner area abutting at the shock absorber and an outer area abutting at the inner sides of sections of the bumper which are directed inwardly of the vehicle; each outer area thereby includes friction structures supported under prestress at the inner sides of the bumper sections.