Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Daniel T Lindsey

Steven L Bivens

Samuel Smith

Steve Bivens

Karly R Miller

Jeffrey S Cascio

Craig Martin Domen

The present disclosure provides a rotational spring dampener that has a compression limiter, a first disk, and a second disk. The first disk is disposed at a first end of the compression limiter and the second disk is disposed at a second end of the compression limiter, where the second end is opposite the first end. The rotational spring dampener also has a tensile member. The tensile member is connected to the first disk and the second disk. The tensile member is composed of a block copolymer.

Silicone free rotational spring hinge dampener

A damper assembly () is configured to dampen motion between a first component and a second component. The damper assembly () includes a housing () having at least one housing rotation-limiting protuberance (). A rotor () is rotatably coupled to the housing (). The rotor () includes at least one rotor rotation-limiting protuberance (). The housing rotation-limiting protuberance(s) () and the rotor rotation-limiting protuberance(s) () cooperate to limit a range of rotation of the rotor () relative to the housing ().

Damper assembly

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Tinley Park, IL, United States of America

Daniel T Lindsey