Supporting mount

US5186440A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Mercedes-Benz Group AG · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Schobbe · Fellbach, DE
• Gerd Steinhauser · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Hans Scheerer · Eßlingen, DE
• Andreas Opara · Fellbach, DE
• Werner Mohrmann · Fellbach, DE
• Hans-Rudolf Steinert · Wissen, DE
• Wolfhard Konig · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 15, 1991
• Grant date: Feb 16, 1993
• Expiry date: Aug 15, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60G2204/4108
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A supporting mount for the angularly mobile flexible support of a supporting member of a wheel suspension, especially a shock absorber, has a mount core which is vulcanized into an elastomer body and the movements of which are limited in the supporting direction by stops fixed in relation to the housing. The elastomer body is prestressed in the mount housing in the supporting direction and held in a manner which does not involve contact with the stops. The supporting mount makes it possible to introduce small supporting forces comfortably into the vehicle bodywork by a soft characteristic while larger supporting forces are transmitted by the stops via a progressively hardening characteristic.