Metzeler Kautschuk Gmbh

Hans Muller

Manfred Hofmann

Ralf Waldecker

A two chamber engine mount with hydraulic damping includes rubber-elastic peripheral walls, a support housing disposed outside at least one of the walls, an orifice plate disposed between the walls defining upper and lower fluid-filled chambers above and below the orifice plate being substantially horizontally divided into an upper plate half being stationary and a lower plate half being rotatable and having a central axis, the orifice plate having an orifice canal formed at least partly in the lower plate half interconnecting the chambers and having a given open length and cross section, a centrally disposed pin integral with the lower plate half and extending through the support housing for rotating the lower plate half about the central axis relative to the upper plate half, varying at least one of the length and cross section of the canal.

Two chamber engine mount with hydraulic damping

1A two chamber engine mount with hydraulic damping includes a housing having rubber-elastic walls, an intermediate plate disposed in the housing between the walls dividing the housing into fluid-filled chambers, the intermediate plate having a substantially spiral-shaped canal formed therein interconnecting the chambers, the canal having a length being a multiple of the diameter thereof, and the intermediate plate having at least one orifice vertically formed therethrough being hydraulically parallel with the canal.

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Hohr-Grenzhausen, Germany

Hans Muller