Resilient support assembly providing vibration suppression

US5405118A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT · DE

Inventors

• Peter Dietz · Bad Mergentheim, DE
• Otto Weber · Wolfsburg, DE
• Volkmar Keck · Wolfsburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 8, 1993
• Grant date: Apr 11, 1995
• Expiry date: Jan 8, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16F1/371
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A support assembly especially suitable as a drive unit support includes a block of resilient material having inserts made of substantially harder material with facing surfaces which extend in nonparallel directions to at least partially extinguish sound waves of disturbing vibration frequencies by interference after reflection from the surfaces.