Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Frederick Clem Miller

William Charles Kruckemeyer

Gary Lee Johnston

Mark Wayne Long

Jay Michael Shores

Chiung Alex Lee

Edward P Probst

David Joseph Koester

Robert D Milos, Iii

Michael G Zimmerman

A hydraulic mount is operable in soft and firm modes and includes a valve positioned at the partition between the working chamber and the reservoir. A normally open fluid path extends through the partition and opens between the working chamber and the reservoir for soft operational characteristics useful in attenuating low amplitude vibrations. The valve body and the partition together define a control chamber in the fluid path. The control chamber is open to the reservoir through lateral openings in the valve body so that fluid pressure in the control chamber is approximately at atmospheric pressure so that a small actuator can move the valve. When the valve is closed the fluid path is closed for firm operational characteristics in controlling large amplitude inputs such as those from torque transients.

Bi-state hydraulic engine mount

In a hydraulic mount the use of multiple primary orifices with unequal area reduces the effects of rapid transitions in dynamic rigidity and the amplitude of impulsive vibration generated thereby. This invention's reduced impulsive vibration has lead to the substantial elimination of mode transition related noise in associated vehicle structures in the 200 Hz to 500 Hz range.

Hydraulic engine mount with reduced impulse vibration

A hydraulic-elastomeric mount is disclosed having a hydraulic damping decoupler with a flexible membrane mounted for reciprocal movement in a reciprocal partition in response to alternating pressure buildup in two orifice connected chambers separated by the partition and decoupler so as to effect cyclic volume change in the chambers by limited travel of both the partition and decoupler and flexing of the membrane without forcing liquid through the orifice and thus without hydraulic damping thereby.

Hydraulic-elastomeric mount displacement decoupler

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Frederick Clem Miller