Gas spring with braking means

US6007057A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Stabilus GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Castor Fuhrmann · Brachtendorf, DE
• Klaus Koch · Sankt Goarshausen, DE
• Horst Maury
• Karl Seibert · Alken, DE
• Michael Rudesheim · Niederburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 2, 1997
• Grant date: Dec 28, 1999
• Expiry date: Dec 2, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16F2224/046
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A pressurized gas spring, which exerts an expulsion force on the piston rod entailing a maximum extension velocity of the piston rod, includes braking means effective at a velocity of motion due to external forces above the maximum extension velocity for limiting the velocity of motion to a desired measure.