Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.

Driv Automotive Inc.

Geert Sas

Mario Maes

Xavier Lauwerys

David Chiaradia

Bart Van Mieghem

Pol Mermans

An assembly includes a spring seat, a spring seat insert, and a seal. The spring seat is slidable along the spring seat insert to define an expandable fluid chamber therebetween. The spring seat includes a groove defining a mating surface. The seal is between the spring seat and the spring seat insert. The seal includes a mating portion at the first end engageable with the mating surface of the groove to prevent fluid from exiting the fluid chamber.

Hydraulic assembly

A shock absorber include a cylinder, a piston rod coupled to the cylinder, and a piston coupled to the piston rod. The piston rod is magnetically encoded so that it includes a plurality of magnetic phase shifts. The phase shifts allow the position of the piston rod relative to the cylinder to be determined so that it can function as a displacement sensor.

Shock absorber with integrated displacement sensor

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Meerhout, Belgium

Geert Sas