Flexible fender mount
US5511808A · kind A · utility
Assignee
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 29, 1994 |
| Grant date | Apr 30, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 29, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB62D25/186
- WIPO fieldTransport
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A vehicle has a steerable wheel on an axle, a fender, and a fender mount for supporting the fender on the axle adjacent to the steerable wheel. The fender mount has a bracket fixed to the axle, an arm fixed to the fender and a flexible bushing coupled between the bracket and the arm. The bushing is rotatably flexible about a torsion axis and is bendably flexible in directions transverse to the torsion axis. The bushing includes a flexible core and a pair of wedge-shaped end caps fixed to opposite ends of the core. The bushing has a central axis which is tilted rearwardly with respect to a fore-and-aft axis of the wheel and which is tilted away from the wheel.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.